Van der Ven: We practiced a lot of set pieces and it worked against Everton today. The opponent was not easy to play.

October 27th Tottenham player Van der Ven was interviewed and talked about the 3-0 Everton game, his own goals, the team's set-piece tactics and goalkeeper Vicario's performance and other topics.

About the game

Feeling crazy right now? Yes, I go into the game expecting us to win and certainly keep a clean sheet if possible because we know it's always difficult against Everton away from home. It's always very tough. The team performed well today and yes, very happy with my goal.

I mean, both are set pieces. The first goal looked well-rehearsed because you had Romero coming in behind and he tipped the ball behind you and you got the finishing touch. This looks like a really good match. At that point it looked like we were attacking the second back point. So everybody before Maddison took the corner kick, yeah, Maddison knew he was going to kick it towards the second post and then Maddison came over from Pickford and knocked the ball into the far corner. So, yeah, that felt good.

It must be great to practice this on the training ground and then implement it like this on live TV, right?

Of course, like I said, set pieces, we practice a lot. To be honest, the players don't always like it because it's always repeating and you know what it's like to repeat everything. So there are other things, you're almost like doing tactical work as well. But you see, we started to enjoy it more because we really wanted to play again against a team like today. We showed that we scored from two set pieces. As soon as we took the lead, I said to Sarr because the tactic was set up so well, especially as an away team and you can tell from our away record. You just It was a feeling that we could go on and win these games. Yeah, structurally too today, so we were in a really good position. I think that was the most important thing in the tactical part.

They scored the goal 1-1 and I would say it was disallowed because it was blocked. Stayed Vicario, but...

You see, after that we stayed calm, we didn't panic. Of course, they had some chances, but staying calm is the most important thing in this situation. Of course, Vicario made some incredible saves, also in the second half, and that's what really matters. But yes, you see we have quality and know how to deal with this draw situation. I was going to talk about Vicario last, I mean, he was editing a highlight reel, so to speak, I mean, probably eight times in a week. But today’s overhead kick was a really good goal. To be honest, I don’t even know how we got in.

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