“I thought Spurs came out the traps really strongly in the first ten minutes,” said Edwards. I was disappointed with how we started the game, which I told the lads at half-time but then I thought we grew into it, started to execute the game plan and then we looked a good team.

“You knew Spurs would have most of the possession, then we started playing how we wanted to and got a goal which was ruled out.

“We were able to keep them pretty quiet, it was difficult for us in transition when we won the ball because they smother you in numbers quickly, then we had to defend with numbers.

“We got into half-time at nil-nil which was a real positive, the dynamic and mood of the game changed when they went down to ten men, we predicted their tactical change at the break and pressed them aggressively man-to-man.

“We wanted width with Chieo and Doughty, created a really big moment at the start of the second half that unfortunately we didn’t take and then we switched off by not dealing with the short corner well enough.”