Ange Postecoglou: Tottenham was atypically defensive in a win in Brentford, so the manager changed his style? | Football news
What happened to Angeball?
It was a question in mind by many observers in Brentford on Sunday, because Tottenham fell deeper and deeper, clinging to his narrow leadership, before he eventually grabbed a second goal on the break to seal the much needed victory of Morale.
It was the most comprehensive account of Ange Postecoglou reign, and the Spurs made 49 approvals, 15 more than in any other Premier League game under it. The average positions of tickets from that game, in contrast to the rest of the season, illustrate how forced the Spurs were forced.
It was incomparable to the wounds, bombastic days of the in charge of Postecoglou, where Spurs fans enjoyed the front, an exciting approach to their side.
Last season, Angeball briefly took over the Premier League with a storm, before the injuries of key players and an inconsistent form belittled their advantage. The infamous defeat at home in Chelsea emphasized their commitment to Australian demands, even when it fell on nine players.
Despite all the challenges of the other campaign, Postecoglou and his players have mostly stuck in the general idea. The Spurs are second in high -end high -speed flight, fifth for how high on the field they beat the ball and first for the amount of passages that allow the opposition to be made before the possession is reconciled.
They usually leave the game to their opponents and do not allow them to settle.
Until Sunday.
The victory over Thomas Frank ended the losing series of four games in the Premier League and a seven -game win in the competition. There was a clear caution in Spurs’s first half with the ball, cautiously that you don’t give too much easy or catch too high. They then became even more pragmatic after their own goal of Vitalija Janelt.
The adjustment paid off. But it also came to mind early interview postecoglou gave Sky Sports In the pre -season before his first campaign Spurs.
“No, no friend,” he said, laughing loudly, laughing that he could send his team to defend 1-0.
“I can’t train like that. I wouldn’t know what to do to tell my players in the last five minutes just to keep myself a one goal lead. It’s just not part of the one I am and the way I train.
“If I sit somehow and change only depending on the circumstances that will go there without any clarity where we are and what kind of team we want to be.”
Has postcoglou changed? Not quite. In this quote he mentions “circumstances”, but the crisis of the injury they faced with this season – and the subsequent need for players (including teens) to play twice a week without rotation – is not something they would have foreseen.
Ever since November 23, winning Manchester City 4-0 at Etihad, 18-year-old Archie Gray has been their second most prominent player in the Premier League. The defenders of the first election of Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven have long been placed on the injury side, along with Guglielmo Vicario 1 goalkeeper.
It was this context that became a postecoglou bistle when he was apparently asked after a game on Sunday. What happened to Angeball?
“It is very difficult for a group of players to play on Thursday-Nedjelj and maintain energy levels,” he said. “They try to maximize. It means you can’t be sharp with and without a ball. They are not robots. I know reality.
“It wasn’t a game that we could go out and dominate. Brentford had a week to prepare for it, we had 50 hours. In that context, the effect was extraordinary.”
Postecoglou also rightly pointed to Spurs’s second goal, a great, smooth move that Pope Sarr turned, as an example that his side was still looking for opportunities to attack. “We were always a threat when we had it,” he said.
But which spurs will we see on Anfield for all important semi -final legs of Carabao Cup with Liverpool? Once again they have a 1-0 lead to the dam.
Liverpool beat them 6-3 in the Premier League in northern London, but participated in a firing meeting with Arne’s slot side in the first part of this semifinal.
Liverpool had more possessions, shots and shots on the target, and Dragusin was needed to clean Trent Alexander-Arnold from the line before the controversial late winner Lucas Bergvalla.
Van de Ven – rest on weekends as he returns to fitness – he is likely to return to XI, and the Spurs will surely have a lot of dam against the best scorers of the Premier League.
As they go through, it will be intriguing to see …
