Micky van de Ven has downplayed the furore over his standoff with Thomas Frank after Tottenham's Premier League defeat by Chelsea on Saturday, insisting it was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. The centre-half most popular to deal with how the staff had bounced again to thrash Copenhagen within the Champions League on Tuesday – a tie through which he scored an exhilarating particular person objective.
Van de Ven was all smiles after Copenhagen, his surge and end from one field to the opposite drawing comparisons to Son Heung-min's Puskas Award-winning effort for Spurs towards Burnley in 2019. It was a vivid distinction to the post-Chelsea scenes when Spurs had been booed off by their residence crowd, having additionally been jeered by them in the course of the sport.
Van de Ven walked off the sphere along with his teammate Djed Spence they usually had been so annoyed that they blanked Frank because the supervisor tried to get them to acknowledge the supporters; they made straight for the dressing room as an alternative. The episode was filmed and shared by a fan – and it colored the buildup to the Copenhagen tie, which was additionally at residence. Frank revealed that Van de Ven and Spence had every been into his workplace on Sunday to apologize to him.
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“It's the previous so I don't need to make it greater than it's,” Van de Ven stated. “Djed and I walked off. We had been simply annoyed after the sport and every thing obtained actually exploded by the media. It was nothing massive. Everybody thinks it was the gaffer … there was nothing to do with the gaffer.
“We had been simply annoyed due to a nasty efficiency – from myself, as nicely. We need to play nicely and I didn't play nicely, in my view. So I used to be annoyed and I simply wished to go fast inside … It was actually irritating. We performed a derby at residence towards Chelsea and it's an enormous sport.”
Van de Ven stated Spurs had “wanted to bounce again in a constructive approach” and had performed so towards Copenhagen. He has six targets this season, making him the staff's high scorer with two greater than anybody else. The quickest participant in Premier League historical past, he has a repute for making issues occur with storming runs, two assists from final season standing out.
Within the residence sport towards Everton he sprinted from the sting of his personal space earlier than passing for Son to attain and at Manchester United he ran from deep, slicing up the within left of the opposing space and squaring from the byline for Brennan Johnson. He took issues to the following degree towards Copenhagen. Spurs host United on Saturday, the ultimate sport earlier than the worldwide break.
“I obtained the ball [on the edge of] my very own field,” he stated of the objective towards Copenhagen, “and I noticed the hole opening each time in entrance of me after I began dribbling. At one level I feel some gamers had been round me and I got here by means of and I noticed the best way was open to the objective. So I used to be like: ‘OK, I preserve going now, I would like to complete this.' I used to be saying: ‘I would like to attain this one.' Fortunately it occurred.
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“The one towards Everton with the help … there have been some defenders in entrance of me. However this time, after I was previous these defenders, the best way was all the best way open. Then I used to be like: ‘Now I have to go myself.' It's a very necessary win to go in the direction of Manchester United, which goes to be actually robust and an necessary sport.”
Van de Ven was requested whether or not he was concentrating on 15 or 20 targets for the season and it was unclear whether or not the questioner was joking. “No, six targets is quite a bit already,” he replied. “I don't know the place it's going to finish however hopefully I can rating extra this season.”
