Irish Daily Star

Conte: We start from here

- ■ Matthew DUNN

Phillips, playing in defence, was

ANTONIO CONTE told his Tottenham players during the break they deserved to be booed off at half-time.

However, the Italian then hailed their turnaround 2-1 win against Leeds as a “starting point”, with his ultimate aim to “change everything” about the team.

Spurs players clocked up 112km between them to turn around Daniel James’s early goal to win with strikes by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and

Sergio Reguilon. But only after a roasting from their manager.

“The feeling of the crowd

PIERRE-Emile Højbjerg has now scored as many goals in 50 Premier

League appearance­s for Tottenham as he managed in 109 for Southampto­n (four).

All four of his league goals for Spurs have come at the Tottenham Hotspur

Stadium. depends on us,” he said. “In the first half we didn’t play well, we lost many tackles. Maybe to concede the goal in the last minute of the first half was good.

Intensity

“At half-time the players showed me they could win this game. In the second half I corrected the situation. We beat them in intensity.

“We won the game, we deserved to win. We played attractive football and the crowd was

PIERRE PRESSURE: Pierre- Emile Hojbjerg hits the equaliser after Leeds’ Dan James (left) got the opener with us. We have the confidence, it’s a great feeling. We want to keep changing, we want to change everything.

“I said to my players this is a point to start from — we want to build on this.”

Marcelo Bielsa had pulled off an early tactical masterstro­ke by using Kalvin Phillips in defence to mark Harry Kane.

“I don’t know why Marcelo Bielsa put me there,” Phillips said. “It worked really well in the first half, but in the second half it’s just a lack of concentrat­ion that hurt us.”

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