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• Ange Postecoglou said he was left “really disappointed” by Tottenham’s second-half performance against Fulham - despite his side returning to the top of the Premier League table courtesy of a 2-0 win on Monday night phl
  
  Spurs have made their best start to a league campaign since 1960/61 - the year they last won the title - as goals from Son Heung-min and James Maddison ensured Postecoglou’s side returned to the Premier League summit phl
  
  Postecoglou himself has now made a record start as a Premier League manager, taking 23 points from his first nine matches since joining the club from Scottish champions Celtic in the summer phl
  
  But despite the feeling of optimism returning to Tottenham supporters since his arrival, Postecoglou was in no mood to celebrate as the Australian criticised his team for taking their foot off the gas phl
  
  “I’m really disappointed with the second half,” Postecoglou said phl
  
  “We were nowhere near the levels we have been all year and we have got to make sure we stay disciplined in our approach phl
  
  The keeper [Guglielmo Vicario] made a couple of great saves to keep the clean sheet and within the context we should have had a much phl better control of the game phl
  
  "I’m not trying to make a point, it’s just what I saw phl
  
  I thought we were really wasteful with the ball in the second half phl
  
  We took some liberties with taking extra touches phl
  
  I’ve been around long enough to know if you try to take liberties, you’ll get dragged down pretty quickly phl
  
  "I’m not going to let the fact that we’ve won the game disguise the opportunity there for us to improve phl
  
  In the second half, with the ball we weren’t anywhere near the levels we’ve already shown this year and there was no real reason for it phl
  
  It wasn’t as if the opposition did anything different phl
  
  It was more self-inflicted phl
  
  Postecoglou has now taken more points from his first nine Premier League matches than any manager in history (Getty Images)"My role in that was to give feedback to the players phl
  
  That’s what they want phl
  
  They want to get phl better, they want to improve, I’ve got some stuff there to show them phl
  
  "Tottenham’s unusual Monday-Friday double header this week means they could stretch their lead at the top of the table to five points should they defeat Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park before the weekend phl
  
  And although Spurs are earning plaudits for their attacking phl football under Postecoglou, the Tottenham manager believes his team still has a “long way to go” phl
  
  "I think I’ve sat here every week and said that,” Postecoglou said phl
  
  “That doesn’t change phl
  
  We are nine games in and we’re at the beginning of building something phl
  
  "It would be so much easier for me to sit here and say, ‘Yeah, we’re a great team’ phl
  
  What I’m saying is we have to improve and that puts the responsibility on me to make sure we do it phl
  
  We can be phl better, absolutely we can phl
  
  ”Despite his disapproval at Tottenham’s second-half display, Postecoglou was full of praise for this team’s “outstanding” pressing as well as the performance of midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjreg, who made his first start of the Premier League campaign in place of the suspended Yves Bissouma phl
  
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  “We are the bomb squad and we knew we had to play a massive role phl
  
  ” If South Africa’s narrow win over England in the Rugby World Cup semi-final could be summed up in one sentence, then this proclamation from Vincent Koch after the game would probably be it phl
  
  When Koch emerged from the replacements on 55 minutes to take the place of starting tighthead prop Frans Malherbe, Owen Farrell had just slotted a drop goal from downtown Paris to give England a 15-6 lead phl
  
  Nine points may not seem a lot but, with the final quarter of the match beckoning and the rain and wind increasing at the Stade de France, it was a comparatively huge deficit phl
  
  Throughout the first few minutes of the second half, the Springboks had more or less emptied their bench as Ox Nche, RG Snyman, Kwagga Smith, Deon Fourie, Faf de Klerk and Willie Le Roux all entered the fray to go alongside the controversial 30th-minute substitution of starting fly half Manie Libbok for Handre Pollard phl
  
  With their World Cup title defence hanging by a thread, South Africa trusted their bench and got their reward phl
  
  Koch and Nche splintered the previously effective English scrum, Snyman burrowed his way across the line for the game’s only try and Pollard nervelessly converted tricky kicks to complete the hardest-fought of turnarounds – 10 unanswered points, a 16-15 win and a date with the All Blacks in another World Cup final next Saturday phl
  
  Of the various phrases rugby has adopted over the years to describe those players in the matchday squad but not in the starting line-up – from the traditional “replacements” and the phl football-ised “substitutes” through to the Eddie Jones-preferred ‘finishers’, the slightly patronising “impact players” and the frankly ludicrous “game-changers” adopted by Harlequins during the Paul Gustard era – none has captured the imagination quite like South Africa’s “bomb squad” phl
  
  It doesn’t matter if you think it’s a slightly self-serving and faintly ridiculous term, the players fully buy into the ethos of what it stands for phl
  
  The intensity and physicality that generation after generation of Springbok has prided themselves on is summed up by this two-word mantra phl
  
  “Each person knows exactly his role in the team, whether you’re starting or in the bomb squad,” explained Koch phl
  
  “When we created the bomb squad, we knew exactly what our job is phl
  
  The starters start the whole process and it’s for us to come and finish it phl
  
  “All the players on the bomb squad are very excited to make a massive difference in the game phl
  
  ”Vincent Koch celebrated RG Snyman’s try as the bomb squad thrived (AFP via Getty Images)And against England, when the chips were down, they realised they needed to step up more than ever phl
  
  “The bomb squad always stands for energy,” added Koch phl
  
  “We needed to create a nice vibe phl
  
  Putting the replacements on a bit earlier helped the boys to start to bring that energy and lift up the spirit and bring a massive work-rate phl
  
  ”Where South Africa’s replacements thrived, perhaps England’s faltered just a touch phl
  
  The English gameplan, devised by Steve Borthwick and perfectly executed by the players for the windy and rainy Parisian conditions, relied upon relentless kicking, winning the subsequent aerial battle, slowing the game down and dominating the set-piece phl
  
  Maybe then, they could escape with a win against an objectively superior team phl
  
  They kicked 93 per cent of possession away (the highest percentage of the tournament), had an average ruck speed of 6 phl
  
  73s (the slowest of the tournament) and had zero linebreaks (the only team to do so in a game at this tournament) phl
  
  They disrupted South African lineouts, turned over multiple mauls and Borthwick’s decision to play his two strongest scrummaging props – Dan Cole and Joe Marler – from the start earned them scrum parity and redemption from the disaster in that facet during the 2019 World Cup final phl
  
  Ox Nche was immense from the bench against the Springboks (EPA)This is a Springboks side that pride themselves on their dominance up front, as shown by opting for a scrum after calling a mark in their own 22 during the quarter-final victory over France phl
  
  Of course, they won a penalty from it phl
  
  Yet England were holding their own during those engagements, even thriving, and most importantly winning on the scoreboard phl
  
  But the innate problem with starting your best scrummagers came to fruition in the second half phl
  
  Replacement props Ellis Genge and Kyle Sinckler are far more dynamic around the park and more destructive carriers than their veteran counterparts but, with England showing no desire to run any plays more than two metres either side of the previous breakdown, those skills were negated once they came on for Marler and Cole phl
  
  Instead, their inferior scrummaging was brutally exposed by a fired-up Koch and Nche, who turned parity into Springbok dominance phl
  
  They won two scrums against the head, including a vital one at 15-6 down on their own line, and engineered multiple penalties on their own feed, including the most vital of all – on halfway, with 77 minutes on the clock and England leading 15-13 phl
  
  Pollard banged over the long kick and the rest was history phl
  
  Handre Pollard broke English hearts with his late penalty (PA Wire)Nche was coy when asked in the mixed zone after the game what had made the difference at scrum-time in the final quarter and how he bested his opposite number, Sinckler phl
  
  “That is the dark arts,” he smiled phl
  
  “It is hard to explain to you phl
  
  We had a plan for that phl
  
  We knew what we were trying to achieve phl
  
  “They have had a great scrum for the competition and a great hit phl
  
  Our focus was surviving that and applying pressure phl
  
  Our mentality for every scrum is to get a penalty if we can phl
  
  If they do survive, we play out the back and get into our shape phl
  
  ”The “dark arts” ultimately won the day, South Africa survived a second straight one-point knockout match and must now plan how to overcome the All Blacks in a battle to be the first side to win four men’s Rugby World Cups phl
  
  Luckily, they have a not-so-secret weapon phl
  
  “We are the bomb squad phl
  
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