Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has refused to write off the remainder of the 2024/25 season. despite his team’s poor form, remaining defiant in the face of reports that his future is in jeopardy.
Spurs were held to a 2-2 draw at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday. After falling behind once again in front of their fans, Tottenham fought back to take a 2-1 lead with three minutes to go, only for Jorgen Strand Larsen to score a dramatic equaliser.
Halfway through the season, Postecoglou’s side are languishing in the bottom half of the season. Premier League tablewith a double-digit point gap to the first four.
Before the year-end failure, Daily Mail reported that Postecoglou’s position is secure, but only until the upcoming Carabao Cup semi-final tie with Liverpool. TottenhamHis wait for a major piece of silverware dates back to 2008, when Juande Ramos won the League Cup thanks to an extra-time winner from Jonathan Woodgate.
Spurs are also on course to qualify for the knockout stages of the Europa League started their campaign in the FA Cup with a tie in the third round against the fifth division team Tamworth FC. The future of Postecoglou ultimately rests on these connections.
Despite increasing pressure regarding his increasingly precarious position, Postecoglou on Sunday he had a mostly upbeat tone. “It’s still pretty tight,” the Australian insisted after Spurs extended their wait for a domestic league win to two months.
“I just feel like at some point we’re going to get a relatively healthy team and when we do that, we’re going to be able to consistently perform at a high level. We’ve already shown this year that we can beat anybody. There’s a chance you can make a run there, but at this point it’s secondary to on the first part, I can see how hard they are trying.”
Postecoglou was overwhelmed with defensive injury crisis on the eve of Vukov’s visit. With no other senior centre-back option, the semi-fit Radu Dragusin was forced into Tottenham’s backline. The experienced coach responded to Sunday’s disappointing result by giving his players two days of much-needed rest.
“I think at times we were inches away from getting the goal we needed to and I think we just lacked a bit of that dynamic movement that we need,” Postecoglou noted. “A lot of these guys find some form of energy to keep trying, but you know we’re certainly not as sharp as we can be.
“It’s been pretty intense for a real small core group of players, especially in the last four or five weeks and I think it will be good for them to have a few days to themselves, with their families, and give them a chance to recover mentally as well as physically.
“I’ll just keep going. We have to work and try to get help for these players. Our role is to try to give them everything we can, the support we can to play the best they can.”
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