A clean win over Everton! Tottenham midfielder Palinha: We fully deserved this victory

October 27th: After defeating Everton 3-0 in the away game, Tottenham midfielder Palinha accepted an interview. He discussed the importance of the victory, the team's recent performance and the desire to win at home.

What a wonderful performance, especially on the defensive end, we are very strong, aren't we?

Palinha: Yes, I think it is not easy to keep a clean sheet, especially in this stadium. Beyond that, I think we need to give credit because we were the first team to beat Everton at their home ground, which shows what we can do.

I think we fully deserved this victory today. As a team we need ourselves to respond at the top level and yeah, we just need to keep doing that because I think we've missed out on wins the last two games. It's not easy when you can't win - it's a completely different feeling. I think we deserve it. The game against Aston Villa... I thought with the way we played we should have won that game. But yes, we did it today and we needed that response today.

Okay, you talked about responses. Tell us what was said in the team between Villa, Monaco and today’s game.

Palinha: In my opinion, I think these are three completely different games. Against Villa, if I had to pick something out from each game, I thought we played well in the first half and controlled the game for most of the time. They created two chances, which cost us the goal. The away game against Monaco, I thought we probably didn't deserve the draw, we didn't concede too many chances. But today, we responded well. We got the victory we deserved, and we also kept a clean sheet, which...

It is also not easy to keep a clean sheet in the Champions League or away from home in the Premier League. I have two clean sheets in a row now, which is not easy. I think we need to give ourselves a pat on the back because it's part of the process, you know? It's like we have a different competition every week. We are always learning and always improving as a team. I thought the coach delivered the message really well, you know? Yes, we responded today but when we got ahead in the game we were very well structured because we were very well organized as an away team.

This is our best away start in 13 years

Palinha: Yeah... I think you need to give credit, like I said, because it's not easy to play away from home, especially in the Premier League. But we also want to get these wins at home because it's also important to celebrate with our fans, who are always following us. Today is a top day there. I don’t know how many of our fans came today, but there were a lot of people and it was great.

But we hope to create and celebrate these wins at home, in front of a packed house, in our stadium. So I think it's just a matter of time and we hope to go into the next game with a win, like I said before, because it's going to be a tough challenge, especially a special game. We need to focus on that now.