Ange Postecoglou has been speaking after Tottenham lost 2-1 at home to Leicester City on Sunday afternoon in the Premier League.

Spurs took the lead half an hour into a first half they had controlled when Richarlison threw himself at a Pedro Porro cross and headed it in from close range. Leicester quickly found an equaliser early in the second half when Antonin Kinsky missed a low cross and Jamie Vardy gratefully tapped in from close range.

Soon after the Foxes took the lead when a poor Porro pass was picked up and moved quickly to Bilali El Khannouss who ran on and curled a low shot home. The hosts tried to find a way back with Porro's free-kick deflecting on to the crossbar, with Son Heung-min having hit the woodwork in the first half, but there was no way past the team second from bottom in the Premier League.

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Here's a full transcript with everything Postecoglou said in his press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after the game.

What happened today?

I think for the most part we controlled the game pretty well. We certainly created enough opportunities to win the game. We had that five minute spell after half-time where we were punished but either side of that there was enough there for us to win the game. The players are giving everything. From my perspective, I can’t get away from the fact that this group of players are trying as hard as they possibly can to turn our fortunes around.

How do you convince people to ignore the league table?

It doesn’t really come into my consciousness about trying to convince people. I have been around long enough to know that some will just judge on where we are at at the moment and rightly so in some respects. It’s not good enough. If people want to put context to that they can, if not so be it. From my point of view, I’m still very much stuck on the fact that the players are just giving everything they can. They did on Thursday night, they did today.

There are probably at least two who shouldn’t have been out there. They were just desperate to try to turn our fortunes around. Hopefully over the next 10 days/two weeks we should get some significant players back which I think will help this group a lot. It will give them the boost they need. We have still got some fantastic opportunities this year to make an impact in the second half of this year and I’m sure that will happen.

Can you explain the Richarlison substitution, presumably he wasn't fit enough to play longer?

He was feeling his groin mate, he should have come off at half-time but he wanted to give another 10 minutes. I could see he wasn’t running well so that is why I took him off.

Do you think you will get another 10 days to two weeks until those key players are back?

Who knows. I reckon there is probably a fair chunk that will say no. When you are the manager of a football club you can be very vulnerable and isolated. I don’t feel that. I feel like this group of players, not for me, are giving everything for the club. I have a group of staff that is really committed. I focus on that. My role within that is to try and support these players. I can even see in training when the guys who are coming back come back in it is going to give everybody a lift. As I keep saying to the players, there is a fantastic opportunity this season to really make an impact and I know we can. But in terms of your question, is there anything I can say about that that is going to change anything that I need to do tomorrow morning? Nothing.

The fans seemed to be chanting about Levy rather than you, what was that like?

Certainly something I wanted to try and do when I took on this role is to try to unify the club and create an environment here where we are all focused on the one thing. Obviously it hasn’t worked out that way. It’s understandable, like you said, the fans are not happy with our current situation. It is a difficult one to navigate because we need them right now, especially at home to create an atmosphere.

It wasn’t that long ago we played Liverpool here and it was a great night. Everyone was focused on the one thing. Like I said, the one thing I keep saying and I think it is important to acknowledge, the players are giving everything for this club and I think that is something that needs to be acknowledged by everyone.

You couldn't name a full bench today, is this a big week in the transfer window, a defining one?

I've said all along, the players need help and I've also said the club are working hard in that area to try to alleviate some of those problems, because Pape Sarr shouldn't have played today. He obviously wasn't fit.

The players are going out there and giving everything they can because we can't call off games. We've got another game in three days' time that these players have to front up for.

The injury situation will ease and I'm confident they will sort of help us. Even one more player coming in, just in the short term will give us an opportunity, at least to navigate these last 10 days, two weeks, of what's been a really hard slog for this group of players.

When you say about some managers feeling isolated, do you speak quite regularly with the chairman?

I don't really speak regularly to him. He lets me get on with it, during this January period there's always regular contact, but that's not what I'm talking about. All I'm saying is I come into the club and I feel like everyone, all the players and staff are in the belief of what we're trying to do.

I don't feel like I'm trying to convince people in this moment about what we're doing and where we're heading. That's where I get the solace to say 'ok I still believe we can'.... I still think there's an opportunity here. I really believe in this group of players

Even today, what I asked of them, some of the performances were outstanding considering what they've been through. To me that's all positive, but ultimately, the fact that we've lost another game of football, the focus is on that.

Do you think the confidence you have in the rest of the season is going to be possible with the uneasiness in the stands?

In some respects that's in our hands. In at least two competitions we're in good shape to make an impact. I think you can turn that around pretty quickly with some positive results at the right time.

You are saying the players are giving everything for the club, but they're surely giving everything for you?

I have felt all along that the players are still very committed to what we're doing. That's important to me, because I firmly believe in it and I really believe that this is as low as we've been so far this year but I still think that in these last three months we can do something really special and these players believe that.

Right now it's very hard to visualise that when the current circumstances we're in, you just have to look at our absences today. They'll all be back. Even missing Madders today, he was so good the other night. All these little things that are not allowing us to get any momentum I'm sure will change and when they change I'm really confident we can make an impact.

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