Ange Postecoglou has conceded that Liverpool “had been too good for us” in Tottenham’s 4-0 Carabao Cup semi-final second leg defeat.

Tottenham took a 1-0 combination result in Anfield for Thursday’s second leg conflict however had been comfortably beaten by Arne Slot’s men.

Cody Gakpo opened the scoring on the night time earlier than Mohamed Salah scored a penalty to place Liverpool forward on combination and two up on the night time.

Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil van Dijk then put the tie out of attain for Spurs, who had been completely abysmal in defeat.

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Postecoglou did a minimum of admit that Liverpool “had been too good” and deserved to win.

The Spurs boss advised Sky Sports activities: “I suppose that Liverpool deserved the victory. They had been the much better group – we weren’t in a position to get a grip of the sport.

“They had been too good for us. We allowed them to get into the sport and we weren’t as aggressive as we would have liked to be. We didn’t get the sport began off in the appropriate footing.

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“It was very tough for us to wrestle that management again.

“We undoubtedly wanted to be braver with and with out the ball. They’re an excellent Liverpool group in a great spell of kind they usually’re very settled.”

Postecoglou added to BBC Radio 5 Reside: “Liverpool had been too good for us tonight. We didn’t get into the sport in the best way we wished to. We allowed them to get management of it.

“Once they get right into a rhythm, we didn’t give ourselves a possibility to get a foothold within the sport.

“We had been means too passive when it comes to our soccer with and with out the ball. I feel it’s a lesson there for us. We can not draw back from the soccer that we need to play.”

Quizzed on profitable a trophy in his second season on the membership, Postecoglou replied: “We now have given up a great alternative tonight and we can not draw back from that.

“We had been in a great place to get to the ultimate.

“No one wants to choose me up, I simply want to choose up the gamers.”

Postecoglou additionally advised ITV that his facet “by no means performed to our identification and strengths and shied away” at Anfield.

“Powerful night time,” he mentioned. “Credit score to Liverpool they had been means too good for us tonight.

“We by no means actually acquired to grips with the sport with or with out the ball. We simply allowed them to get management fairly early and it made it tough for us to get within the sport.

“Each of the primary two targets we may have carried out higher however in the end what was actually necessary was that we by no means performed to our identification and strengths and shied away from the problem a bit of bit.

“General we didn’t begin effectively and had been means too passive and let Liverpool get in a rhythm. We nonetheless have competitions to play for beginning on Sunday.

“With the alternatives we do have nonetheless, now we have to deal with them in our means somewhat than discovering other ways to win video games.”

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