Ange Postecoglou has been speaking to the media after Tottenham's 3-2 defeat at Everton in the Premier League on Sunday and we've got every single word the Australian said.

Spurs went into the match with 10 players missing, after losing Dominic Solanke, Brennan Johnson and Yves Bissouma on the eve of the match.

Postecoglou changed to a back three and Everton opened the scoring 12 minutes in when Dominic Calvert-Lewin turned the Spurs defence inside out before wrong-footing Antonin Kinsky with a low shot. The hosts netted again before the half hour mark when Iliman Ndiaye ran through the middle and hit a powerful shot into the net. Before the break Archie Gray could only divert a James Tarkowski header into his own net to make it 3-0 at the interval.

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Dejan Kulusevski struck a goal back on 77 minutes with a clever chip over defenders with Jordan Pickford well out of goal and while substitute Richarlison grabbed another goal for Spurs in added time, sliding in a dangerous cross from Mikey Moore, it was too little, too late for Spurs.

Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold was among those putting the questions to Postecoglou after the game. Here's the full transcript from the press conference at Goodison Park.

How do you legislate for that first half performance because you were always trying to come back from that start?

It wasn't great the first half. I guess the majority of that is down to me. I changed the team and changed the structure. We had a couple of setbacks in terms of player availability and we struggled to get control of the game and allowed Everton to capitalise on that. Obviously at half-time we had a mountain to climb. Fair play to the players, they kept going until end but ultimately fell short.

What was the thinking behind changing the shape of the team?

I had 11 fit players so it was a way of trying to find a way to fit the ones we had fit into a structure. The players tried hard enough but it didn't work.

How difficult is for you as you just seem to be taking punches all over the place with losing Solanke ahead of the game and Johnson and Bissouma?

It's a pretty extreme situation, we've lost three players, significant players since, the last game and we've already got seven or eight out. Obviously we lost Dom really late yesterday in training, something innocuous, so it's just the run we're on at the moment, the situation we're in. At some point that will change, we'll get some players back, but right now it's just the situation we're dealt and the responsibility lies squarely with me to try to get us out of it.

Do you have any update on Dominic, is it a serious one?

Not totally, I mean it was just one of these things and he just sort of went to shoot on his own and twisted it, so we don't think it's serious, but probably a few weeks at this stage from what I've heard.

Presumably that only increases the need for more players?

I mean it doesn't really, I mean I think it was pretty evident before that, but yeah, like I said, we had 11 or 12 missing today and apart from, we've got to see how Rodri's going through the protocols, apart from him, no-one else is really due to come back. We've got a European game on Thursday, we obviously can't use Djed or or Reguilon in that, so we're in this situation.

How long is Johnson out for?

It's probably three or four weeks, he did it in the second half against Arsenal the other night. So yeah, we're looking at three to four weeks.

And Bissouma?

Biss was a knock, we're hoping that he should be right by next weekend.

Is there any sign of any kind of imminent transfer activity?

Look, as I said during the week, I'm sure like everybody, the club's well aware of our situation and they're doing their utmost. As far as I know at the moment there's nothing imminent, but you know, I assume between now and we're getting to the end of the window that hopefully something comes up.

It's become a bit tied in with your future though, because obviously you're battling with the team but you've not got the tools to do it?

I separate myself from that. This is not about me, but what is about me right now is I have the responsibility of the group of players I do have, to try and get us through this, and that's what I've got to focus on. For me to focus on anything else is abstaining myself from the responsibility I have. I'm just determined to get us out of this. The club's doing its best to...more about helping the players than helping me because they're the ones we're asking some massive jobs of 18-year-olds. We had a 17-year-old out there trying to win games of football for us. And others who are just playing week on week, so, you know it's more about getting the players help rather than me help.

How frustrating is it though that you keep getting injury after injury, how difficult is that to manage through?

I have never played the victim. At the end of the day I still believe the responsibility lies with me to get this right and that is where I sit with things. Whatever the circumstances are and it is fair to say it is a challenging situation for sure a lot of it is out of your control as a manager when you losing the amount of players we are at the moment. But I still have to steer us through and if I start worrying about myself and the cards I have been dealt with it is a dereliction of my duty and my responsibility. It is not how i see it. I see it as these are the cards I have been dealt and it is up to me to get us out of it and I have to be good enough to do that.

What is the motivation for you and the players to keep going through this?

Plenty. The club, our fans, our season. We are still in four competitions this season. We are in the semi-final of the Carabao Cup, we have a couple of big European games coming up, still in the FA Cup, obviously our league position is not great to say the least. We need to improve that and eventually our players will come back. It is a significant talent that will come back. It is not like this is what it is, there is motivation to get through this so that when we do get our players back we can get something significant out of our season.

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