Ange Postecoglou confident Tottenham can handle the heat at Galatasaray
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou is confident his side can handle the heat of a hostile atmosphere at Galatasaray.
Spurs are travelling to the Turkish giants on Thursday in the Europa League, which is notoriously one of the toughest grounds to go to.
Postecoglou has rotated his side during the Europa League, giving chances to teenagers like Mikey Moore.
But he is confident that whoever he picks to face Galatasaray will be able to cope with the atmosphere at Rams Park.
“I’m sure that they’re all looking forward to it,” said Postecoglou. “That’s why you play football.
“I kept saying, especially with this generation, a lot of them have experienced what football is like without supporters. You certainly don’t like that when we went through Covid.
“We’re looking forward to it. It’s a fantastic stadium, the supporters create an unbelievable atmosphere here, they love the big European nights.
“They’re a very, very good team. It’s exactly the kind of games you want to be involved in in Europe, whether you’re young, you’re old, irrespective of the role you have, you look forward to it.
“They definitely have a lot of threat in the front third. As I said, their attacking players are very, very good individually.
“They're a strong team physically, so we're going have to match the attacking threats they have with the way we play.
“Obviously, like I said here at Galatasaray, at this home stadium with the fans behind them, there's a great energy in all their games, so it's a great test for us, but as I said one we're looking forward to. We're in good form, we're playing good football ourselves. It should hopefully be a good game.
“Through the Europa League we've rotated the team as we've seen. Obviously we are playing three games a week at the moment, have been since the start of the season and we've used pretty much all our squad, but that's worked well because players have come in and been fit because they're playing football regularly.
“We'll make changes tomorrow night but again it's just about making sure we have a team out there we believe can match the opposition and get a result for us.”
