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Here's every single word the Tottenham Hotspur head coach said after the Premier League defeat at Bournemouth on Wednesday
Thomas Frank cut a frustrated figure at his press conference after Tottenham's 3-2 defeat at Bournemouth on Wednesday night in the Premier League.
Mathys Tel opened the scoring within five minutes, cutting in off the left flank after a backheel from Xavi Simons set him away and he stuck a low shot into the bottom right corner of the net.
The hosts levelled on 22 minutes when Evanilson found himself free to head home Marcus Tavernier's cross. Nine minutes before the break Bournemouth took the lead when another Tavernier cross from the right reached the unmarked Marcos Senesi and he pulled it across for the equally free Junior Kroupi to fire into the net.
Spurs substitute Richarlison sent a header against the post with 20 minutes to go of the game as the visitors chased an equaliser. They were awarded a penalty moments later after Micky van de Ven's long surging run ended with him tumbling in the box but referee Darren England was sent to his monitor and decided there was no foul as the Dutchman's leg hooked the defender's rather than the other way around.
Tottenham did score though on 78 minutes with a superb Joao Palhinha overhead kick after the ball bounced up in front of him from a corner.
Spurs went close to a winner with Van de Ven's header saved at full stretch by Dorde Petrovic but it was left to Antoine Semenyo to smash a low shot into the bottom corner in added time in is was expected to be his final game for the club before a move to Manchester City.
Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold was among those putting the questions to Frank after the game. Here's the full transcript from the press conference at the Vitality Stadium.
When you've had the chances to win it, it must be so frustrating to lose it at the death like that?
Definitely. I think it's very tough to sit here right now and we haven't got anything out of overall a good performance. I think we started well, got up 1-0, conceding two goals on second phase set pieces. Especially the second one, we needed to do much better. But I really liked the character in the team and from the players, they gave everything.
The second half, I think we were completely on top, and keep going even through disappointments and small setbacks, which we talked about before. Work very, very hard with the players and the team on that.
Don't score inside the post from Richie, overturn the penalty, keep going, getting the equaliser, 2-2. After that, I think we are closer to winning than Bournemouth are. With the Micky header, with all the good opportunities. So, to sit here and concede in five, six minutes of extra time is very painful, very tough. But that's football.
What did you make of the penalty being overturned?
I think it's a 50-50 situation.
Can I ask you about injuries with Bergvall and Bentancur coming off?
Yeah, of course. I don't know exactly the update. My initial thought is probably not the top with Lucas when he was off the second time. Was it Crystal Palace when he went off I think. So, yeah.
It's the first time we've been able to ask about Mohammed Kudus' injury since the scan, is it a bad one?
Sorry, we'll know more when we see each other tomorrow. We'll know more tomorrow.
We have to ask you about an unfortunate image before the game, holding a cup, it's got Arsenal branding on it, presumably it got passed it to you and you just didn't notice that it was on there? Unfortunately, it's not a good look.
Definitely not noticed it. I think it's fair to say that we're not winning every single football match so it would be absolutely, completely stupid of me to take a cup with Arsenal. Is there anyone thinking I've done that? All the staff has done it.
They've been in the changing room, the game before us. Its normal to take a cup, give me an espresso, I do that before every game. I think actually it's a little bit sad in football that I need to be asked a question about that.
I think we're definitely going in the wrong direction if we need to worry about me having a cup with another logo of another club, of course I'll never do that. That's extremely stupid.
Just on the winning goal, from a defensive point of view, how did you see that?
The easiest thing is to say we can never concede that. I think our goal against Sunderland, after I look that back, that we can never concede. This one, we can never concede it anyway. I need to watch it back with a little bit more calm-headed, of course, next time. Get everyone behind the ball. It's not like it's a transition where we have three, two, something looking absolutely hopeless.
This was a situation where they've given everything, but then you finish on an angle quite far out on the side of the goal, which is not going to score every single time, but it did today.
You mentioned about the two goals you conceded in the first half, they were almost identical in the positions the cross came from. Was that just a case of players not getting out to Tavernier, or was it a structural breakdown?
I think the second one is the biggest one. We need to accept sometimes the teams do something that is OK, but the second one we need to do better.
With the injuries, does this even further require the club getting into the market in January?
As I said, quite a few times we are in the market, the club is working very hard, they can. It's difficult in January, and we need to get players in that can improve the squad.
There seem to be some exchanges between players and the fans in the away end. Was there anything that troubled you, or was it just frustrations that you sort of understand?
I haven't seen that situation, that's one thing. I think it's fair to say everyone involved in Tottenham, players, staff, fans, everyone is a tough one to take today.
I think hopefully everyone can see how hard we worked to get everything in the right direction. And I think overall the performance was good, especially in the second half, in a game where we deserved to get more. That is extremely painful to be part of, so of course people are frustrated, I'm frustrated, so that's natural.
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