Ange Postecoglou 'hurting immensely' as Tottenham's form guarantees worst Premier League start for 16 seasons
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Ange Postecoglou says he is hurting "immensely" as a result of Tottenham's dismal form after they finished 2024 with a frustrating 2-2 home draw with Wolves. Substitute Jorgen Strand Larsen scored an 87th-minute equaliser to leave Spurs with just one League win in December, and guaranteed to be lower in the table at the turn of the year than in any season since 2008-09.
Postecoglou says both himself and his players are hurting and believes the team deserved more for their efforts against Vitor Pereira's side. "The players are obviously hurting, they want to turn this around and it's not for the want of trying," Postecoglou said afterwards.
"Of course I am [hurting too]," the head coach added. "It hurts me because I'm responsible, ultimately. I'm the person in charge. So of course it hurts. "When I see how hard they are trying, it hurts even more because you want them to get a reward and I think today they deserved a reward for their efforts even though they were dipping into their reserves of energy, which I don't even know where they got from. I wanted them to get a reward for their efforts.
"So of course it hurts. It hurts immensely. At the same time it's my responsibility for where we're at right now and it's my responsibility to try to get us out of it.". Spurs climbed to 11th in the table but are 11 points behind fourth-placed Chelsea and nine shy of Manchester City in fifth, with Postecoglou still confident they can make a success of their league campaign.
"I think so," he said. "Because it's still fairly tight. I just feel that at some point we'll get a relatively healthy squad and when we do that we'll be able to perform at a high level consistently and we've already shown this year we can beat anyone.
