Van De Ven Brushes Off Frank Snub And Reflects On His Spurs Wondergoal

Micky van de Ven has downplayed nan furore complete his standoff pinch Thomas Frank aft Tottenham’s Premier League conclusion by Chelsea connected Saturday, insisting it was misinterpreted and blown retired of proportion. The centre-half preferred to attraction connected really nan squad had bounced backmost to thrash Copenhagen successful nan Champions League connected Tuesday – a necktie successful which he scored a thrilling individual goal.

Van de Ven was each smiles aft Copenhagen, his surge and decorativeness from 1 container to nan different drafting comparisons to Son Heung-min’s Puskas Award-winning effort for Spurs against Burnley successful 2019. It was a vivid opposition to nan post-Chelsea scenes erstwhile Spurs were booed off by their location crowd, having besides been jeered by them during nan game.

Van de Ven walked disconnected nan section pinch his teammate Djed Spence and they were truthful disappointment that they blanked Frank arsenic nan head attempted to get them to admit nan supporters; they made consecutive for nan dressing room instead. The section was filmed and shared by a instrumentality – and it coloured nan buildup to nan Copenhagen tie, which was besides astatine home. Frank revealed that Van de Ven and Spence had each been into his agency connected Sunday to opportunity sorry to him.

“It’s nan past truthful I don’t want to make it bigger than it is,” Van de Ven said. “Djed and I walked off. We were conscionable disappointment aft nan crippled and everything sewage really exploded by nan media. It was thing big. Everyone thinks it was nan gaffer … location was thing to do pinch nan gaffer.

“We were conscionable disappointment because of a bad capacity – from myself, arsenic well. We want to play good and I didn’t play well, successful my opinion. So I was disappointment and I conscionable wanted to spell speedy wrong … It was really frustrating. We played a derby astatine location against Chelsea and it’s a monolithic game.”

Van de Ven said Spurs had “needed to bounce backmost successful a affirmative way” and had done truthful against Copenhagen. He has six goals this season, making him nan team’s apical scorer pinch 2 much than anyone else. The fastest subordinate successful Premier League history, he has a estimation for making things hap pinch storming runs, 2 assists from past play opinionated out.

In nan location crippled against Everton he sprinted from nan separator of his ain area earlier passing for Son to people and astatine Manchester United he ran from deep, slicing up nan wrong near of nan opposing area and squaring from nan byline for Brennan Johnson. He took matters to nan adjacent level against Copenhagen. Spurs big United connected Saturday, nan last crippled earlier nan world break.

“I sewage nan shot [on nan separator of] my ain box,” he said of nan extremity against Copenhagen, “and I saw nan spread opening each clip successful beforehand of maine erstwhile I started dribbling. At 1 constituent I deliberation immoderate players were astir maine and I came done and I saw nan measurement was unfastened to nan goal. So I was like: ‘OK, I support going now, I request to decorativeness this.’ I was saying: ‘I request to people this one.’ Luckily it happened.

“The 1 against Everton pinch nan assistance … location were immoderate defenders successful beforehand of me. But this time, erstwhile I was past these defenders, nan measurement was each nan measurement open. Then I was like: ‘Now I request to spell myself.’ It’s a really important triumph to spell towards Manchester United, which is going to beryllium really reliable and an important game.”

Van de Ven was asked whether he was targeting 15 aliases 20 goals for nan play and it was unclear whether nan questioner was joking. “No, six goals is simply a batch already,” he replied. “I don’t cognize wherever it’s going to extremity but hopefully I tin people much this season.”