Jamie Carragher believes Ange Postecoglou should adapt his fashion if he’s to stay Tottenham boss after struggling back-to-back defeats following a 4-3 residence loss to Chelsea.
The Australian claimed his aspect “played well” within the defeat, which noticed his aspect blow a two-goal lead as Spurs gave away two rash penalties to permit their London rivals to return again.
A second loss in 4 days after Thursday’s 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth has seen Tottenham drop to eleventh within the Premier League, seven factors off the highest 4 and so they have only one win of their final seven video games in all competitions.
Talking after the loss to Chelsea, Postecoglou informed Sky Sports activities: “It’s a sore one. Painful.
“We began rather well after which we lose Cristian Romero – nothing has run easily for us and we’ve got to reshuffle earlier than they get a purpose. I believed we had large moments to get a 3rd. Second-half was a ding-dong and we had a giant probability with (Heung-Min) Son to swing the sport our approach. Then the 2 penalties weren’t nice on our behalf – we want extra self-discipline within the field.
“We did not play effectively in opposition to Bournemouth however we performed effectively right now. They seem to be a good aspect. A high crew. We bought disrupted in key moments and the important thing moments determined the sport.
“When we are playing our football we are tough to stop and we need to maintain our discipline. There was no need for them as the game was in the balance. When you play these top teams these momentum shifts can happen quickly.”
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Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou shares his ideas on their 4-3 defeat to Chelsea regardless of Spurs flying right into a 2-0 lead inside 11 minutes.
However Postecoglou’s feedback have brought about alarm for Carragher, who believes the 59-year-old is in peril of shedding his job if he doesn’t change his attacking fashion of play.
Certainly, in his 53 Premier League video games in cost, Tottenham have each scored and conceded in 36 of them (68 per cent) – solely Ossie Ardiles’ video games had a better ratio of seeing either side rating (69 per cent).
Carragher informed Sky Sports activities: “Ange said how well they played. I can’t imagine any Liverpool manager I played for – and we conceded four in a game – would say in the interview we played well. If you play this way you’ll get the result like at Manchester City but you’d also get results like this one where you’re 2-0 up. I’ve never got my head around managers saying we play a ‘certain way and we will never change’ – I think it started with Pep Guardiola at Barcelona.
“This idea that wherever they play, they will play their way. But that was the best team I’ve ever seen. Pep Guardiola then had to change his Man City team who were winning the leagues every season, putting centre-backs at full-back. This idea that you can’t change is alien to me. The game-state dictates how you play, not all the time but if you go away to a tough away ground you shouldn’t play the same way as you do against a team at the bottom.
“There’s this concept of enjoying a pure recreation and the Tottenham followers singing ‘We have got our Tottenham again’ however you will not win something, you will not problem.
“I wake up every morning hoping the sun is shining, so I can put some shorts and a T-shirt on but if it’s raining, you put your coat on. You can’t have this idea about playing one way, it won’t work. If it doesn’t change, he won’t be here next season.”
Redknapp: Spurs ought to prioritise Carabao Cup
Spurs are nonetheless within the hunt for a trophy beneath Postecoglou, along with his aspect going effectively within the Europa League and looking out ahead to a Carabao Cup quarter-final this month at residence in opposition to Manchester United, stay on Sky Sports activities.
They may even absolutely anticipate to be within the FA Cup fourth spherical after being drawn away to non-league Tamworth subsequent month.
Postecoglou stated in his post-match press convention: “There’s still plenty to play for us in terms between now and January just to make sure that we keep performing.
“I nonetheless sense inside this squad there’s an actual type of conviction in what we’re doing, and if we keep that, then we’ll flip our season round and hopefully in some unspecified time in the future we hit some smoother waters simply by way of a few of the issues which are occurring in the mean time. A few of it is self-inflicted, however hopefully, we are able to get some extra consistency.”
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Postecoglou claimed earlier this season he “always wins things” in his second 12 months in cost and Jamie Redknapp believes that ending the membership’s 16-year trophy drought will likely be his precedence amid an underwhelming league marketing campaign.
Redknapp informed Sky Sports activities: “They have to win a trophy – that’s the stick they are beaten with. If they win a trophy this year it will give them confidence and belief that they can get top four.
“They should change the historical past of this membership. For too lengthy they’ve had an perspective of not being profitable and letting folks down. Whereas in the event that they win a trophy it’ll give Ange a little bit of respiration area.
“They’ve got Manchester United in the Carabao Cup, they can win that. If you look at the winners of that trophy recently it’s either been Man City, Man Utd or Liverpool. Winning that is more important than finishing top four.
“The house owners might disagree, however it might be nice for the fanbase and the gamers.”
The former Spurs midfielder added: “For a Tottenham fan, they’d [Antonio] Conte, who was pragmatic; they’d [Jose] Mourinho – did not work; they’d Nuno [Espirito Santo] – did not work right here.
“Now you’ve got to the complete opposite [end of the] scale and for Tottenham fans for 10, 15 games last season, they thought, ‘This is it, we’ve found it. This guy is going make us play beautiful football, expansive, we’re going to win’.
“You’ve got gone from one excessive to the opposite and it seems like we have stated the identical factor for the final 10 years of coming to observe Tottenham.
“I just don’t know really which way they’re going to go next because if you sack him, then where else do you go?”
Postecoglou’s Spurs flatter to deceive once more
Sky Sports activities’ Adam Bate:
Postecoglou pointed to high-quality margins as his Tottenham crew got here out on the unsuitable aspect of a seven-goal thriller in opposition to Chelsea and a beneficiant interpretation of occasions would possibly conclude that he had some extent. The identical could possibly be stated of Spurs’ season.
Six extra factors and they might be handily positioned in fifth, one level behind Manchester Metropolis. A few wins from video games in opposition to Crystal Palace, Ipswich and Bournemouth would have been sufficient. Or how about holding on to that two-goal lead at Brighton?
However the actuality is that Postecoglou’s Tottenham preserve leaking these two-goal leads and so they preserve leaking factors. It isn’t dangerous luck. It’s starting to really feel like a consequence of the coach’s mantra, one which prioritises fashion of play over navigating the sport’s nuances.
There was no trace of management even when gifted two targets by Marc Cucurella’s early slips. The result’s that as high-quality as these margins could also be, Spurs now sit within the backside half of the Premier League desk after 15 video games. They’ve misplaced greater than they’ve gained.
In reality, of the 17 groups which have been within the Premier League each this season and final, solely two have misplaced extra video games within the competitors than Tottenham since Christmas. Dominic Solanke arrived in the summertime however the different additions have been younger prospects.
Because of this, are the indicators of progress imminent? For all of the speak of trophies within the second season, possibly this is his Spurs. “Tottenham are so close to being a good side,” stated Carragher on co-commentary for Sky Sports activities. “But they always let you down.”
