Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou was happy to end 2023 with victory over Bournemouth.
Postecoglou felt his team showed good form for the 3-1 win.
He said: "There was a bit of everything today, and we needed a bit of everything. Some of our football was good, we had to show some resilience and character, again a massive physical effort. I said in the week that these players had given everything, the ones who were available.
"We're not stumbling due to a lack of effort, that's for sure, against a side that is probably the most in-form side in the competition, two days less rest after a really big physical load against Brighton. The way these players keep giving maximum effort is a credit to them.
Both Pape Matar Sarr and Alejo Veliz were taken off in the second-half carrying injuries.
Postecoglou continued, "Pape felt his hamstring and he's emotional because he wants to go away with his national team. It's a big tournament for them. It's kind of the way our season has gone. He was so good again early in the game, apart from his goal, and then he gets an injury. Disappointing for him but I am hoping it is not too serious and he can still go away and contribute to his country.
"Alejo was in a lot of pain and we'd already done our substitutions so we were trying to get it out to him to just lay down so we can get him off, but it just shows the character of the boy because he knew we had no more substitutions and he just wanted to keep going. I'm not sure the extent of what he's done but we'll find out."
Postecoglou also clashed with the Bournemouth bench at the end and added: "I was fine. We were just wishing each other happy new year. It's alright. Just a little bit of emotion in the game. I was more concerned with Alejo because we were kind of trying to get him off the field, and apart from my physically going on the pitch and dragging him off he wasn't really going to go down. So we were just shouting at him and I think the Bournemouth staff thought, I don't know what they thought, maybe that we were trying to make a substitution but we knew we had none. It was just about getting him off."
