Despite enduring a tumultuous marketing campaign at Tottenham Hotspur, Antonio Conte is adamant he’s nonetheless proudly occupying the supervisor’s place on the north London membership, although his future with the workforce appears to stay on shaky floor.
Back-to-back defeats had raised query marks about Conte’s place, however Monday’s 1-0 Premier League win at Fulham revived Tottenham’s hopes of difficult for a top-four end.
The Italian appeared emotional on the remaining whistle at Craven Cottage after Harry Kane’s purpose simply earlier than halftime sealed an important win for Tottenham.
“I am proud to be Tottenham manager. I had the possibility of being the manager of an important club; it makes me proud, and this has to be clear to everybody,” Conte, who has appeared disenchanted of late, instructed Sky Sports.
“For this purpose, I need to battle till the tip with my gamers. We are a workforce that works rather a lot and beneath this facet, I can not inform something about my gamers.
“I spoke with my players, and I have good players, especially good men. They understand we have to fight until the end for the important positions; we have to be ready to suffer.”
Tottenham stays in fifth place with 36 factors, three behind Newcastle United and Manchester United, who’ve a sport in hand.
And whereas they have been maybe lucky to win at Fulham, Conte mentioned he was impressed with the response of his gamers, who’ve been closely criticized in current weeks after a poor run culminating in defeats by Arsenal and Manchester City.
“I had a good answer from my players. I asked them for solidity of the last season and the will and desire to fight and to be resilient,” he mentioned.
“Today has to be a starting point for us to give everything, then, we will see what happens at the end. We have to try to stay in the race for the Champions League and try to go to the next round in the FA Cup.”
Only Tottenham’s second clear sheet of their final 11 league video games and an improved defensive efficiency, particularly within the second half, happy Conte.
“Compared to last season, we continued to score goals, but to concede 21 goals in 10 games wasn’t positive. But I am happy with the response,” Conte mentioned.
“We are in the right direction, then, we will see. The most important thing for me is to work with my players and to have a good relationship with the club.”
