antonio conte happy
Tottenham have put themselves in a great position to secure a top-four berth following a fine run of form. Extremely inconsistent at the turn of the year with victory followed up by defeat, Antonio Conte’s side have won seven of their last nine Premier League games to move into the final Champions League place. Now three points ahead of Arsenal, although the Gunners do still have a game in hand to play, Spurs’ good form has also seen them move to within five points of Chelsea. So could Tottenham catch Thomas Tuchel’s men and finish the season in third behind Man City and Liverpool?
Antonio Conte said: “First of all we have to think to ourselves and to look to ourselves and not the other opponent. Arsenal has one game more in their hand than us but there is not only Arsenal in this race. There is also United, West Ham, Wolverhampton. In this race you can finish first, in this race, if you don’t make a lot of mistakes. It is important to feel the right moment to push. For us, Saturday it will be a really important game because we are going to play against a really strong team. We played in the last period twice against them and in both games we struggled a lot because they were organised, have good players, a good manager. The last game they won against Arsenal. I watched the game and they deserved to win. They weren’t lucky, they deserved to win. For this reason, in this moment it will be very important not to make big mistakes, try to get three points also if you know very well the game will be very difficult against Brighton. But we are working very well, the players and my staff are working very well, I have seen great focus in this week and hopefully we try to get three points in this race on Saturday it will be very important to put pressure on the others.”
