Ange Postecoglou makes Mohamed Salah comparison to sum up Tottenham's brutal reality
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Ange Postecoglou believes even Mohamed Salah would struggle to be prolific in Tottenham ’s current team. Spurs host Liverpool in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final on Wednesday night with up to 10 players still sidelined. And after confirming that captain Heung-min Son’s contract has been extended by a year, Postecoglou reckons his team’s difficult spell can be placed in context by imagining what would happen if the South Korean and Salah swapped roles. Son, 32, has scored just five league goals so far this season while Salah has already racked up 18 for the leaders.
While backing his skipper to emerge from a tough run of form, Postecoglou said: “Mo is a world-class player but if you put him in our team now, I'm not sure he'll have that same level of performance because of the situation we're in as a group. “You need a team that's in good form, creating opportunities, playing on the front foot, having a really solid foundation of a defence that is cohesive.
“None of these things exist at the moment. We're relying on individual moments and you can say the same about Dom [Solanke], [Dejan] Kulusevski and Brennan [Johnson] because they are playing all the time. They're doing the best they can. “We’re a team that is very disrupted, that is not playing with a fluency that it can play with. We’re asking players to play in positions that they are totally unfamiliar with. That has an effect.
