Ange Postecoglou supported Tottenham to get the job done in Norway after taking a big step in the direction of a place in the Europa League final with a 3-1 last ferry victory over Bodo/Glimt.
The domestic struggles of Spurs were well documented, but a sea of white flags and a tifo with club motto 'to dare to dare' the team greeted for only his second semifinal in a European competition for 40 years.
It was a display that matches a great occasion and Tottenham reacted with a 38-seconds from Brennan Johnson before James Maddison made the score 2-0 in the 34th minute.
A third after 61 minutes of a Dominic Solanke-Spot-Kick had supporters from home who sang around the final of this month in Bilbao, but Bodo reduced the shortage by seven minutes via Ulrik Saltnes to set up an intriguing draw in the second rows next Thursday.
Bodo has an impressive home record in Aspmyra Stadium, where they play on an artificial surface, and yet Postecoglou knows something after he had experienced the ground with Celtic in 2022.
Asked for the victory, Postecoglou said: 'I think it brings us to a good position. I thought the players were excellent today.
'I thought our performance was everything it had to be, really well organized and defensively disciplined and really calm in the future and created good opportunities for ourselves and maintaining pressure.
'Of course they have scored the goal, which I don't think thinks our dominance in the game, but if we repeat that performance next week, it's enough for us to get through.
'I get that Bodo is gone, is a difficult game, but that also applies to (Eintracht) Frankfurt and we went there knowing that we had to win to get through and I thought the boys really treated it well.
'I think we have been really good in managing every situation in Europe this year. We had a few games where AZ (Alkmaar) we lost from home, but had to come back and showed really calm and calm to get through it.
“I think all those experiences give me the conviction that we can go there and get the job done.”
A care for Postecoglou will be the fitness of England -duo Maddison and Solanke, which in the second half, respectively, hops with knee and quad injuries.
He added: 'Madders felt a tweak in his knee, but it doesn't sound like it's something serious.
'Stupid something similar in his quad. Both did not think it was a bit too important, but thought it was wise to eliminate them at that time. '
The late strike of Saltnes took place after Destiny Udogie, Dejan Kulusevski and Mathys Tel had gone close for a fourth goal for Spurs and Bodo -Baas Kjetil Knutsen believes that the final intercourements in North London could prove to be crucial.
“I think the goal is really important,” Knutsen reflected.
'First of all when you see that Tottenham gave a goal, they were really disappointed, they lose energy and I think Bodo/Glimt gets a lot of energy because of the goal.
'I think we can take the energy from this game to the next game and then it is completely different for us to play at home.
“I think we still have a chance here. We are not the favorites, but we will really go for it and fight for it. '