Tottenham: Is Ange postecoglou right to highlight injuries as a reason for the team problems this season? | Football news
“This idea you can’t change is an alien to me. The state state dictates how you play,” said Jamie Carragher Sky Sports. “I wake up every morning hoping that the sun is shining so I can put a few shorts and T -shirts, but if it’s raining, put on a coat.”
Carragher’s comments were aimed at Tottenham after receiving four goals in their defeat in Chelsea in December, but they were equally applicable on Sunday because the Spurs were eliminated from FA Cup to Aston Villa. It was clear within a minute.
Ange Postecoglou afterwards described Villa as “one of the best teams in the country at home” – so why did Pedro Porro caught that high Bed caught in a second? He was behind not only goalkeeper Jacob Ramsey, but also Lucas raised.
Although Postecoglou launched a scary defense of his players, speaking of a narrative “guided by the daily order” focused on him and his team, there is a doubt that he is he – Instead of anyone outside the club – which undermines all its efforts.
Statistics still tell us this Tottenham team, for all their fights this season, they play a little different from everyone else. The principles of the game that postecoglou’s spurs five points were clear at the top of the table at the beginning of last season, they remain in place.
No team in the Premier League won the ball several times more than Tottenham. No team allows so little passage by defensive action. No team plays with more wide than Tottenham. It should be intense and expansive by design.
Asked why this intensity was not against the villa, Postecoglou said, “Because they are tired, my friend. I can’t. We didn’t play on Thursday night, and I rotated that team, do you think it would press and today a little more aggressive?”
Postecoglou seemed to be aware that his approach would not be so effective for what, remember, a one -time relationship with the cups. Yet, too often, Spurs’s positioning suggested that they were still set for pressure. Bodies in advance the ball. No defense protection.
The Australian coach seemed to acknowledge this with a reasonable switch at halftime, introducing Yves Bissouum instead of Mikey Moore. He gave his side of multiple strongholds in the game and afterwards they enjoyed their best magic of the match.
In a recent victory over Brentford, a game in which Tottenham fell deeper, he soaked this more flexible approach, in which Tottenham fell deeper, he soaked some pressure and then went through it and asked for points. In the villa, the adjustment came a lot too late.
This idea still exists that any compromise would be to dilute the message, to undermine all that hard work. “My responsibility in this club is this group of players and teams, to make them play the way I want. It will bring us success.”
But the alternative is certainly harmful. Not only for postecoglou, but also for these young players, those who, he says, are his main focus. Moore does not want to be hooked at halftime. Antonin Kinsky and Archie Gray do not enjoy being exposed so.
“You can’t judge this group of players about what happened,” Postecoglou says. “They gave everything. Two 18-year-olds, a 17-year-old, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old goalkeeper.” He added, “It can’t be that people think it’s an excuse.”
It’s right, to the point. But then, few judge these players. Gray is a real look and will enjoy better career times than this one. Many of them, hope in the Spurs T -shirt. Lucas Bergvall showed an abundance of promises. It was the first start to Mathys Tel.
No, frustrations are directed elsewhere. It was President Daniel Levy who was the focus of fans in Villa Park. Postecoglou is expected to improve. Because the argument that these are mere puppies poorly equipped for the challenge only goes so far.
Gray and Bergvall amounted to almost £ 50 million budget to transfer the club last summer. Much of the rest was spent on Wilson Odobert. Tel from Bayern from Munich is one of the teenagers he mentions. Kinsky was an arrival of £ 12.5 million from Slavia Prague last month alone.
The Czechs began a promising start against Liverpool, so it is a little alarming as it seems that his confidence has hit since then. On the Fraster bench is a 36-year-old former goalkeeper of England. Deciding for the young choice is not an excuse.
Of course, the idea is that they were there to support, to alleviate themselves in the team built around more experienced persons, such as the defender Cristiano Romero, who won the World Cup. Injuries have changed the entire equation, changing dynamics, and the results are ugly.
“These are just injuries. I mean, you can walk outside and say, ‘Jeez, is really bright,” and say to yourself, “Maybe it’s not the sun.” But it’s the sun, my friend. We only get injuries. “He was recently robbed of 12 of the first teams, their record of injuries was really fascinated.
Any team would suffer without their best players, but not so bad, and not so long without the necessary adjustments. In addition, the difficulty in Postecoglou was that the issue itself worsened with his decisions and his approach.
Returning both Romera and Micky Van de Ven for the aforementioned game against Chelsea was a surprise that brought a little sympathy. The medical team may have signed on it, but the move did not look careful before they both corrupted.
Accident? Maybe it’s not given that Postecoglou’s Tottenham made more sprints than any other team in the Premier League this season. Evidence suggests that playing method comes at the price. The number of muscle injuries is unlikely to be by accident.
The fans will still be divided because the desire to play ambitious football with young players feels like a statement of a mission worth buying. But defeat, not the agenda, which shape the narrative. Waiting for players to fit may not be enough.
