Burnley 2-5 Spurs | Ange’s verdict: “You look for a reaction - and they were outstanding”

Ange Postecoglou was after a reaction from the players after going behind early at Burnley - he got just that as we stormed to a 5-2 win to maintain our unbeaten start in the Premier League at Turf Moor on Saturday.

Rocked by Lyle Foster’s fourth-minute strike and with Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup loss at Fulham still fresh in the memory, how would we respond? The answer - in style.

Heung-Min Son’s lovely finish on his way to a hat-trick levelled it up on 16 minutes and we were in charge when Cuti Romero struck a beauty into the top corner from 20 yards to hand us a 2-1 lead at half-time.

We ran away with it in the first 20 minutes of the second half as James Maddison curled a trademark finish home from 22 yards for 3-1 (54 minutes) followed by clinical Sonny finishes (63, 66) to take us out of sight at 5-1. Josh Brownhill hit a late consolation for the home side.

“I really liked the performance,” said Ange, speaking on the Review Show on SPURSPLAY. “Of course, going a goal down isn’t the best way to start a game away from home, but it happens and, particularly after midweek, you’re kind of looking at the reaction of the boys, and I thought they were just outstanding.

“They kept their heads, played our football, committed to working hard and slowly got to grips with the game. Once we got a hold of it, I thought we were dominant all the way through, so credit to them.

“We were a little wasteful in the first half, I thought we missed some opportunities in there, but second half we were very clinical. I really just liked the way we went about it. We knew Burnley would be really aggressive on our press and when we were playing out, but we played through that really well and had the quality in the front third to finish it off.”