Ange Postecoglou reveals player he 'obviously' should NOT have played in shock defeat to Leicester - as Spurs injury crisis goes from bad to worse
Ange Postecoglou reveals player he 'obviously' should NOT have played in shock defeat to Leicester - as Spurs injury crisis goes from bad to worse
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Ange Postecoglou has revealed that he regrets starting a player who was not at full fitness as Tottenham succumbed to a shock 2-1 defeat at home to relegation-threatened Leicester in the Premier League. The player in question struggled throughout the contest and was substituted just nine minutes after the interval, in which time Leicester had scored twice to flip the game on its head.
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With scrutiny reaching breaking point for Postecoglou as Spurs boss, the Aussie admitted after the game that playing 22-year-old midfielder was a mistake in his selection. However, Postecoglou reiterated that the inclusion of an fitness-hampered Pape Matar Sarr was forced by Tottenham's unrelenting injury crisis, with Djed Spence, Brennan Johnson, Destiny Udogie, Wilson Odobert, Timo Werner, Guglielmo Vicario, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Dominic Solanke and James Maddison all unavailable for the Leicester match.
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'I've said all along, the players need help and I've also said the club are working hard in that area to try to alleviate some of those problems, because Pape Sarr shouldn't have played today,' Postecoglou said in his post-match press conference. 'He obviously wasn't fit.
'The players are going out there and giving everything they can because we can't call off games. We've got another game in three days' time that these players have to front up for. Pape Matar Sarr was brought off after 54 minutes as Tottenham slumped to a shock defeat.
