Every word Ange Postecoglou said on why Tottenham's inconsistency is his fault and Solanke injury

Ange Postecoglou has been speaking to the media following Tottenham's disappointing 2-1 defeat at home to Ipswich Town on Sunday in the Premier League.

The Tractor Boys secured their first league win of the season with Kieran McKenna leading his team back to the club where he started his playing and coaching career. Spurs could have climbed up into third place in the table with a victory but instead now sit 10th after the dismal defeat.

The away side took the lead on the half hour mark. Brennan Johnson didn't challenge for an aerial ball and that gave Sammie Szmodics time to hit an overhead effort into the bottom right corner. Ipswich were gifted a second goal before the interval when Spurs could not convert a break at one end and the visitors swept up the other end where Szmodics' low cross was palmed out by Guglielmo Vicario against Radu Dragusin and the ball rolled back towards the goal line where Liam Delap smashed it into the net.

Spurs grabbed a goal back on 69 minutes when Rodrigo Bentancur headed home Pedro Porro's corner but it was all the hosts could celebrate as Tottenham huffed and puffed and could not find another goal.

Here's every single word Postecoglou said in his press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after the defeat:

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What went wrong today?

We didn't start the game well at all. It was all sort of passive, without the ball, with the ball. I felt we didn't get the tempo right or intensity right and then we gave ourselves a mountain to climb. Second half we were in the ascendancy and had opportunities obviously but we didn't do enough with them.

You've said you don't think there's recurring themes in matches but it does feel like falling behind at home is one during your time here, is that an issue?

They're all different sorts of scenarios. When we went behind against Villa we were playing well. We weren't playing well today. So you've got to look at in isolation today, it was a different scenario for me. I don't think it was anything like last time. We gave ourselves too much of a deficit to try to overcome. Obviously second half we had the opportunities to do that, but we should never have been in that position.

Why are you having these games where you're more passive than usual, like at Palace?

That's down to me. That's my responsibility. The inconsistency we're having this year, ultimately it comes down to me and my approach and something I need to try and fix and see if I can help the players in that area.

Is the squad struggling to deal with the constant Thursday-Sunday amount of games?

I shouldn't think so. I don't think so. If we were seeing that we'd probably feel it more at the end of games and we're not feeling it at the end of games. We're finishing games strongly. We can't start games like that at this level and expect to overcome the gap that exists between us and the other teams.

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Any complaints with the time wasting as the fans got wound up by that?

Look I think it's the way the Premier League is going. It's pretty strategic now. You can almost look at your clock around the 20-minute mark and some player will go down, they'll all come over to coach and get instructions. It's funny I always liked the Premier League because it wasn't like that. You would watch teams play in Europe and get frustrated by it, but now it's part of the game here as well. Nothing we can do about it. For us, if we want to mitigate those things because we don't do it and we want the game to be played, then we shouldn't give opportunities for the opposition to do that.

Can I check on Pape Matar Sarr's injury and Dominic Solanke seemed to pick something up in the first half and played on?

I think Pape is all right. He just got a bit of a knock. Dom jarred his knee, it was pretty sore but he wanted to continue. Hopefully it is nothing serious.

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