The travel Spur followers were disappointed with one of Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou's choices in the gain at Coventry City.
Ange Postecoglou was not in the mood to subject ideas from the flying Tottenham supporters during his team's serious soon win over Coventry City on Wednesday night.
Spur left it late against their Tournament competitors in the League Cup fight, needing an 88th-minute Djed Spence equaliser to cancel out Brandon Thomas-Asante's second-half purpose, before Brennan Johnson's stoppage-time success sealed a fourth-round area.
But this came after the flying fans booed the Australian's determination to substitute midfielder Lucas Bergvall, who was making his second stop for the team, on 62 minutes. James Maddison replaced the Swedish lad, with Spur conceding soon after the substitute.
Postecoglou, whose edge came into the midweek fight on the rear of subsequent Premier League defeats, including last week's 1-0 house opposite to bitter rivals Fleet, was swift to bite back at the fans ' frustration following the win.
" I do n't make substitutions by poll, mate", he said in his post-match press conference. " But, I'm sure the supporters have got their personal thoughts, but yeah, Lucas, like I said that's his second sort of significant game day for quite a while. What I did n't want was us pushing guys over the edge today, that's why we took Destiny]Udogie] off at half-time as well.
" We already had a couple of injuries, and I had some pretty good players on the bench that I thought could make an impact, but it does n't take away from Lucas's performance. I thought he was outstanding tonight.
" They they're going to play a lot of football for us and hopefully getting through tonight, whether it's 90 minutes for Archie]Gray ] or you know, 60, 70 for Lucas, will put them in a good space".
Postecoglou can point to the fact that Spurs progressed following his decision to replace the promising Bergvall on a night where he made eight changes to his starting line-up.
" What I've always tried to do is what I think is the right thing", he continued. " The best thing for us, in terms of what we're trying to achieve, and you know that there's no guarantees with anything you do in football.
" But what I've always done is back my decisions in critical times to always do what I feel is best. And if it does n't work out, I can live with that. However, I wo n't in any way compromise what we're trying to achieve by doing something that will make me appear safer.
Next up for Spurs is a home clash against Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday, before the club begin their Europa League campaign by hosting Qarabag on Thursday.
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