Ange Postecoglou defiant as Tottenham job rests on two key fixtures
Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou refused to put in writing off the rest of the 2024/25 season regardless of his facet’s dire type, remaining defiant within the face of reviews relating to his perilous future.
Spurs have been held to a 2-2 draw at dwelling to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday. After falling behind as soon as once more in entrance of their very own followers, Tottenham fought again to take a 2-1 lead heading into the ultimate three minutes solely to ship a dramatic equaliser from Jorgen Strand Larsen.
On the midway level of the season, Postecoglou’s facet are languishing within the backside half of the Premier League desk, with a double-digit point-gap as much as the highest 4.
Earlier than this year-ending setback, the Every day Mail reported that Postecoglou’s place was secure however solely till the upcoming two-legged Carabao Cup semi-final with Liverpool. Tottenham‘s anticipate a significant piece of silverware stretches again to 2008, when Juande Ramos lifted the League Cup due to an extra-time winner from Jonathan Woodgate.
Spurs are additionally heading in the right direction to qualify for the Europa League knockout levels and start their FA Cup marketing campaign with a third-round tie in opposition to fifth-tier Tamworth FC. Postecoglou’s future finally rests on these cup ties.
Regardless of the mounting strain relating to his more and more precarious place, Postecoglou struck a largely optimistic tone on Sunday. “It is nonetheless pretty tight,” the Australian insisted after Spurs prolonged their anticipate a house league win to 2 months.
“I simply really feel that sooner or later we’ll get a comparatively wholesome squad and after we do this, we’ll be capable to carry out at a excessive degree persistently. We have already proven this 12 months we will beat anybody. There’s an opportunity there you’ll be able to go on a run, however for the time being that’s secondary to the primary bit. I can see how laborious they’re making an attempt.”
Postecoglou was lumbered with a defensive damage disaster forward of Wolves’ go to. With out one other senior centre-back possibility, a half-fit Radu Dragusin was compelled into Tottenham’s backline. The skilled supervisor responded to Sunday’s disappointing end result by handing his gamers two days of much-needed relaxation.
“I imply we have been inches away at instances from getting the purpose we wanted and I feel we’re simply missing a bit little bit of that dynamic motion that we’d like,” Postecoglou famous. “Lots of these guys, they’re discovering some type of vitality to nonetheless be on the market making an attempt, however you realize we’re actually not as sharp as we might be.
“It has been pretty intense for an actual small core group of gamers, significantly over the past 4 or 5 weeks and I feel it will do them good to have a few days to themselves, with their households, and provides them an opportunity to get better mentally as a lot as bodily.
“I am going to simply preserve going. We have got work to do and attempt to get some assist for these gamers. Our position is to attempt to give them all the pieces we will, the help we will to carry out at their greatest.”
