Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven has sung the praises of manager Ange Postecoglou.

The Dutchman spoke with Optus about working with the Australian.

"I really like the way he thinks about football," said Van de Ven. "It's really clear. He just wants us to play, every time over and over again. He gives us the trust as a team that we can do it. Sometimes you have some trainers who tell you that you have to play, but when you make the mistake they're going to scream at you or they're like 'what are you doing?'," said the young defender.

"But even now, when we keep playing from the back, and when you make a mistake he wants us to try again and again and again. Every time over and over and he gives us the trust that we can do it so he doesn't put on us the pressure that we can't make mistakes. He's always like you can just keep doing it and when you make a mistake it doesn't matter, just try it again and again. I think this is really important as a player that you feel the trust that you can do it and don't have the feeling like you can't make a mistake."

On what he's learned from Postecoglou, he added: "I think in football relevance, from the build-up, there are so many options [with the ball] and when I came from Germany, of course I haven't played professional football for that long, but there are so many options in the build-up. Sometimes he comes with an option and I was like 'yeah it's true, I didn't know this'. Of course it's possible, but I never thought about it like this. So I would say that in football, the way of playing, I learned the most from him."