Ange Postecoglou has been speaking to the media following Tottenham's comfortable 5-0 victory against Southampton on Sunday and we've got the full transcript from his press conference.

Spurs opened the scoring just 45 seconds in when a powerful run from Djed Spence through the middle of the pitch ended with a pinpoint ball poked through to James Maddison and the midfielder fired it through the keeper's legs and into the net. Son Heung-min doubled the visitors' lead minutes later when he smashed home a deep, curling headed on Maddison cross.

Only 13 minutes were gone when Dejan Kulusevski tapped home a loose ball after a Son cross deflected back into his path. Then on 24 minutes, Destiny Udogie won the ball back in his own half, sprinted up the pitch, found Son and the skipper picked out the run of Pape Matar Sarr and the young midfielder dribbled around a defender and fired home on the slide to make it 4-0.

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Just before the break, Son played in Maddison with a clever ball and the midfielder turned on a sixpence on the touchline and managed to squeeze in a curling effort from a tight angle into the top right corner. The second half saw the visitors step down the gears and conserve their energy with Saints unable to find a way through.

Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold was among those putting the questions to Postecoglou after the match. Scroll down for a full transcript from the press conference at St Mary's Stadium.

What did you make of that positive performance and fast start?

Really proud of the players. We obviously had a tough away European fixture on Thursday night. We had 10 first-team players unavailable for a number of reasons today in a squad of 25, and we asked a lot of them to go out there again and dig into their wells of energy. A couple we put out there hadn’t played in ages, haven't started games, so the fact the boys could play with such energy and quality was just outstanding. Really pleased that they get the rewards for it because they deserve it.

Three full Premier League debuts tonight, what did you make of the two starters in Lucas Bergvall and Djed Spence?

They were great. Lucas is growing all the time, but he's 18. Archie is 18 and how many Premier League clubs are going to start two 18-year-olds in their line-up. Djed has had to bide his time. To be fair, it's the one area of the pitch where we've had cover this year with Archie playing at right-back, so he's had to be patient.

It's a testament to him and the coaches who have worked with him in training that he could come on today. We needed him for sure, not just to play but to make an impact and he did. Great reward for his patience and perseverance.

You wanted the senior players to stand up so how pleased are you to see Son and Maddison stand up tonight?

They were brilliant. I think they sensed they needed to tonight. We are just spread so thin that we’re asking young players and players who haven't played a lot and others who have been playing all the time to go out there and still try to play to our identity, play the football we want to.

I thought they both were the catalyst for that tonight, with both the football but also their mindset just going out there. We had to start strong today, we knew we would probably run out of gas at the end of the game considering the line-up we had out there, coming off Europe on Thursday night. I think the players sensed that and credit to them that they started the game in that way.

There was a nice moment between you and fans, how did that feel after the moments following the Bournemouth game?

Yeah, look, again, I’m trying to separate me and my feelings from what we’re trying to do here. Like I said after the Bournemouth game, the ones that travel are obviously very hardcore. They support this club and they were disappointed with that. They made the trip tonight and would have enjoyed particularly the first 45. They didn't get to see any goals close up in the second half unfortunately.

Look, I said on Friday that nothing changes in me. I still have the same resolve and determination to make sure that we become the football club and football team we want to be. Tonight was about the players and I thought their efforts were unbelievable.

How is Destiny Udogie?

We'll see how he is. He felt a bit tight in his quad. To be fair, he wanted to continue but we can't take any risks at the moment. So we took him off with Sonny. I don't think it's anything significant at this stage and more precautionary.

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