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Ange Postecoglou praised his Tottenham players as his patched-together team were knocked out of the FA Cup, insisting "nothing changes" regarding his future.

Villa took 58 seconds to score when Jacob Ramsey's shot slipped through Antonin Kinsky's grasp, and Morgan Rogers doubled the lead midway through the second half. Spurs' new signing Mathys Tel pulled one back in the 91st minute.

Asked if the result changed anything for him or his players, Postecoglou told BBC Sport: "Nothing really changes.

“We’ve I've got a couple of weeks now where we don't have midweek games. This group of players has done an unbelievable job for two and a half months. Unbelievable job. Can't praise them highly enough for the effort they put in. It is small group of players playing, twice a week since November.

“They'll get some opportunity to recover now. We'll get some players back over the next couple of weeks and, look forward to resetting and, finishing season strong.

Spurs are languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League table, leaving just the Europa League as their only chance of silverware, and Postecoglou is expecting soon a reprieve from a crippling injury crisis.

Postecoglou continued: "There's still very much our objectives. Europe's still very important to us. We're in a great spot there.

"We expect to get some players back out next two weeks ... We had eleven first team players out today. Take that out of any team for one game, and they'll struggle. We've been doing it for two and a half months, so we'll get some players back, and I think that'll help.

"[The first players] just go out there, give me everything they can, but, obviously, you know, it'd be a lot better for them if we had some help for them."