Thomas Frank insisted he was comfortable regardless of Tottenham failing to beat League One sides in two separate friendlies at this time.
A Spurs XI that includes the likes of Cristian Romero, Richarlison and Son Heung-min have been held to a 2-2 draw by Wycombe within the first recreation after which one other sturdy facet, which contained new signings Mathys Tel and Mohammed Kudus, drew 0-0 at Luton.
Pape Matar Sarr netted each targets towards Wycombe earlier than Tel and Kudus, who price a mixed £85million on this summer season’s window, didn’t encourage the guests at Kenilworth Highway.
Regardless of the dearth of a victory, Frank was moderately happy with the run-outs.
He advised Spursplay: “General, okay, comfortable. I might say the large take away on the constructive facet is that we acquired kind of 75 minutes into many of the gamers – that was the rationale why we performed two combined groups and subbed on all the children on the finish of each video games. So, the bodily, minute-wise – field ticked. I’m pleased with that.”
There have been positives – Frank
The Wycombe recreation was an entertaining affair, performed at Hotspur Means. Sarr’s targets got here both facet of a brace from Armando Quitirna.
“With the Wycombe recreation, positives, I felt the excessive strain and regaining of the ball was very profitable in some ways all through the sport,” mentioned the previous Brentford boss. “We regained it I don’t know what number of occasions, however we created six, seven very harmful conditions the place we should always have finished much more and scored second aim by means of Pape.
“Additionally, within the first minutes, Wycombe’s runs in behind have been good, so we have been actually targeted on that. The massive focus is that we defend effectively, and we gave away two targets we shouldn’t have given away towards Wycombe.”
‘A bit to be labored on’ as Spurs draw a clean at Luton
Dominic Solanke and Future Udogie missed the Luton recreation, the latter pulling out within the warm-up, as a precaution.
Frank mentioned: “The Luton recreation, that was the sport the place I felt, ‘okay, there’s a bit to be labored on’. That was two combined groups a little bit out of sync. The boys put all the pieces into it, they have been constructive, heads down working onerous, however these connections and relationships, they positively weren’t fluent, but it surely’s good to have one thing to work on.”
Spurs now head to the Far East for friendlies towards North London rivals Arsenal on Thursday and Newcastle subsequent Sunday.
