Presser points | Everton 3-2 Spurs | Ange Postecoglou

Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media at Goodison Park after our 3-2 loss against Everton in the Premier League on Sunday.

Here's what he had to say...

Ange on the first half...

"It wasn't great. 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."

On 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."

On our current difficulties, and losing Bissouma, Johnson and Solanke to injury this week...

"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. We lost Dom really late yesterday in training, something innocuous, 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."

On Dominic Solanke's injury...

"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."

On Brennan Johnson's injury...

"It's probably three or four weeks, he did it in the second half against Arsenal the other night."

On Yves Bissouma's injury...

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

On transfer activity...

"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."

On the frustrations of continued injury issues...

"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."

On the motivation to keep going through this...

"Plenty... the club, our fans, our season. We are still in four competitions. 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 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."