Son Heung-min concern, his Thomas Frank chat and five things you may have missed in Tottenham game

The Thomas Frank era at Tottenham Hotspur began with a victory at the weekend at League One hosts Reading and there was plenty for the new head coach and the supporters to take away from the game.

The 51-year-old stepped into the dugout for the first time with the Spurs badge on his chest as he put out two different starting XIs in either half of the match at the Select Car Leasing Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The first 45 minutes under Frank brought a goalless affair before the second period delivered goals from young striker Will Lankshear and 18-year-old centre-back Luka Vuskovic, as well as an exciting performance from £55million new signing Mohammed Kudus to seal the 2-0 win.

The Tottenham boss handed the captain's armband to Cristian Romero in the first half and then Son Heung-min in the second, having admitted the previous day that he was yet to decide on his skipper for his first season at the club.

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Here are five things that we spotted during the encounter at Reading, including some discomfort for one of those two men wearing the armband.

Sore Son

While Son looked rusty during the game, the 33-year-old did play his part in both goals in that second half, winning the corners that led to each of them.

The South Korean looked to be in some discomfort at the end of the match and after the game, constantly holding and hitting the base of his back with his hand as he listened to the head coach's post-match debrief as well as before undergoing some warm-down runs on the pitch after the final whistle.

Whether it was an impact issue from a knock during the game or part of an ongoing concern for the Tottenham captain is unclear but he certainly seemed to be struggling with it while walking around, and appeared to speak to one of the club staff on the pitch about it before those runs.

Chatty Frank

One immediate difference between Frank and his predecessor Ange Postecoglou is that the Dane likes to be the man dishing out the tactical instructions to individuals while the Australian would delegate that to his coaching staff as more a manager than a head coach in the traditional mould.

Frank could be seen going around to various players before crouching down beside Son with a little tactics board as the South Korean tied up his shoelaces and put his shinpads into his socks. The Dane had a quick chat with the skipper as he moved bits around on the board.

The new Spurs head coach also decided to conduct both of his half-time and full-time team talks on the pitch during the match. The one at the interval concerned only those coming on for the second half while the final one had everyone present in the squad, presumably as they would not have all fitted in the small and probably very warm dressing room.

"Got the first 45 minutes into the legs, very good," the former Brentford boss said to his players. "Second thing, got a clean sheet. Third thing, dangerous from set-pieces, and reactions, good overall, could also be better. Of course defensive sharpness. Fantastic. Ok. Action. Pressed good from the start. Bring it. That's it, well done everyone."

Crowd trouble

The final minutes of Saturday's game brought some disturbances in the crowd at the top of one stand where the Spurs and Reading fans were closest to one another.

Stewards were having to intervene, ensuring a line between the two sets of supporters and objects looked like they were being thrown, some of them landing on those Reading staff.

There was talk after the game of potential police intervention following those clashes and any potential results of that are likely to emerge in the days ahead.

Vicario's debrief with Spence

When the final whistle blew on the pitch, Guglielmo Vicario, who had made a couple of good second half saves including one right at the death, went over and grabbed Djed Spence.

The Italian goalkeeper launched into one of his now trademark emotional debriefs for one of his defenders, with his arms around the right-back's neck and pushing himself head to head with him as he spoke.

Spence even had time to turn to goalscorer Lankshear and congratulate him while being held by Vicario as the Italian kept delivering his passionate sermon even though the defender was speaking to someone else briefly.

There's no doubting Vicario cares and he was keen to debrief after what for them both was hopefully the first of many clean sheets this season.

Making Spurs fans happy

After the game, while many of the Tottenham players gave the 3,000 or so travelling supporters applause, particularly the second half players, some of them appeared to take a little more time with the fans.

There may have been others that did as well, but football.london definitely saw Micky van de Ven go over to some of the travelling faithful while the two players who seemed to spend the most time with the fans were Djed Spence and Will Lankshear who went over and posed for photos and signed things for many of the crowd who had come down to the advertising hoardings.

That didn't stop some fans wanting that little bit more with one young supporter shouted at by stewards as he jumped on to the pitch and started to run across to where Kevin Danso was doing his post-match interview with the club. The youngster quickly turned and went back to the stand.

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