Ange Postecoglou looking forward to clear week as Spurs try to lift the gloom Ange Postecoglou plans to make the most of a clear week before Sunday’s visit of Manchester United, but speculation continues over the future of Tottenham’s under-pressure head coach.
“So, that gives us a real good opportunity to get some work into the guys who have been out for quite a while and give some rest to the guys who have been going at it, so by the time we get back to being in Europe and having midweek games, we’ll be in a much better shape.”.
“By the time we get to the back end of the week, we should have something resembling a squad of players to prepare for a big game.
Tottenham were without 11 players for the weekend loss at Aston Villa and while Postecoglou launched a passionate defence of his depleted squad, this 2-1 defeat made it 10 losses from their last 20 matches in all competitions.
There are plenty of mitigating circumstances for the Australian, with October 30 the last time key trio Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero played together, while more recently James Maddison, Brennan Johnson and Dominic Solanke have been sidelined.
