Newcastle vs Spurs | Ange’s preview: “We have to make sure we bring our energy”

Ange Postecoglou gave a nod to the atmosphere at St. James’ Park as we prepare to face Newcastle in a potential Premier League cracker on Saturday (12.30pm) - and cited how we have to ‘bring our energy’ to the encounter.

Ange alluded to how the energy from the stands at St. James’ can transfer to the pitch with 50,000 Geordies willing their side on. It’s no surprise that the Toon lost just two of their 19 home matches on the way to fourth place last season, and they’ve maintained that form with 10 wins and three defeats from their 16 games on Tyneside this time around.

Newcastle are in form, as well - two losses in their last 10 - but so are we... we travel north having won 10 and lost three or our last 16, and just three defeats on the road all season. Both teams have scored 65 goals in 31 games, and Ange expects a high-energy affair.

Speaking to Inside Spurs on Friday, Ange said: “It will be a tough game. Newcastle at home… the atmosphere will be electric, they get behind their team and it’s a great game to be involved in, a good test going up there, our form recently has been decent and it’s an important game in the context of our season, so it’s a good challenge and an exciting one.

“Newcastle are very aggressive, particularly with their pressing, and when they play at home, irrespective of how they set up, the energy they get from the crowd means it’s usually a really up tempo game. If you watch all their games, irrespective of the opposition, they are high tempo, fairly open and it will probably be similar tomorrow.

“We have to make sure we bring our energy to it. We want to play high tempo, so that should suit us, but we have to match the energy they will bring, particularly early in the game.”