Liverpool’s emphatic, and predictably chaotic, 6-3 win in north London exposed the flaws in Postegolou’s erratic side. It’s just the way they play, mate. From 3-4 to 1-1 to 5-0 to 4-3 to 3-6, with Tottenham taking and giving up leads and mounting comebacks and scoring in the first minute and conceding at almost any point, often in calamitous fashion. No scoreline is safe, no onlooker bored. Some are exhilarated, some exasperated. And if Ange Postecoglou can fall into the latter category, his annoyance is directed at his inquisitors, not his riotously erratic team. They have been 5-0 up and 5-1 down in the same week. Even by their own standards, it has been a wild ride.
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As Spurs lost 6-3 to Liverpool, the defiance came not from a team who were cut open time and again, but a manager who is adamant he will stick to his philosophy. “I think I have been really patient the last 18 months sitting up here answering the same questions over and over again,” he said. “If people want me to change my approach, it’s not going to change.”.
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Uncompromising to the last, Postecoglou sometimes seems to have backed himself into a corner; unhelpfully, perhaps, given the regular accusation is that Spurs can’t defend a corner, even if they contrived to concede six times in open play against Liverpool instead. He is zealot and idealist, the man with the radical stance that can lead to accusations he is delusional. It is brilliant when it works; the problem is it doesn’t work often enough.
