Thomas Frank insisted he was joyful regardless of Tottenham failing to beat League One sides in two separate friendlies right this moment.
A Spurs XI that includes the likes of Cristian Romero, Richarlison and Son Heung-min had been held to a 2-2 draw by Wycombe within the first recreation after which one other robust aspect, which contained new signings Mathys Tel and Mohammed Kudus, drew 0-0 at Luton.
Pape Matar Sarr netted each targets towards Wycombe earlier than Tel and Kudus, who price a mixed £85million on this summer time’s window, didn’t encourage the guests at Kenilworth Street.
Regardless of the shortage of a victory, Frank was moderately happy with the run-outs.
He instructed Spursplay: “Total, okay, joyful. I might say the large take away on the optimistic aspect is that we received roughly 75 minutes into a lot of the gamers – that was the explanation why we performed two combined groups and subbed on all the kids on the finish of each video games. So, the bodily, minute-wise – field ticked. I’m pleased with that.”
There have been positives – Frank
The Wycombe recreation was an entertaining affair, performed at Hotspur Method. Sarr’s targets got here both aspect of a brace from Armando Quitirna.
“With the Wycombe recreation, positives, I felt the excessive strain and regaining of the ball was very profitable in some ways all through the sport,” stated the previous Brentford boss. “We regained it I don’t know what number of instances, however we created six, seven very harmful conditions the place we should always have finished much more and scored a great second objective by Pape.
“Additionally, within the first minutes, Wycombe’s runs in behind had been good, so we had been actually centered on that. The large focus is that we defend nicely, and we gave away two targets we shouldn’t have given away towards Wycombe.”
‘A bit to be labored on’ as Spurs draw a clean at Luton
Dominic Solanke and Future Udogie missed the Luton recreation, the latter pulling out within the warm-up, as a precaution.
Frank stated: “The Luton recreation, that was the sport the place I felt, ‘okay, there’s a bit to be labored on’. That was two combined groups somewhat out of sync. The boys put all the things into it, they had been optimistic, heads down working exhausting, however these connections and relationships, they positively weren’t fluent, however it’s good to have one thing to work on.”
Spurs now head to the Far East for friendlies towards North London rivals Arsenal on Thursday and Newcastle subsequent Sunday.
