Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou position precarious with Spurs season hanging on cups
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Ange Postecoglou’s post-match comments at the Emirates suggest the time for excuses and explanations is over. Throughout Tottenham’s bleak midwinter, Postecoglou has repeatedly pointed to his squad's crippling injury list and rotten luck as explainers for their form.
The Spurs head coach even uncharacteristically appeared to criticise the officials in the defeat to Newcastle in their previous league game, raging about the lack of "a fair and even playing field" following a contentious handball decision. But after watching his side squander another lead to lose 2-1 to bitter rivals Arsenal - Spurs' 11th Premier League defeat of the campaign - Postecoglou offered nothing in the way of mitigation, barring an oblique reference to “how things are going for us”.
Instead, he slammed his side’s “passive” display as “unacceptable”, and demanded an improvement in their form, starting at Everton on Sunday. “The reality is that our results and our form in the league has been nowhere near good enough,” Postecoglou said. “That needs to change.”.
Postecoglou’s Spurs have now won just once in nine League games since beating Manchester City 4-0 in November - and that was a stroll against bottom club Southampton. They have taken just five points from the last 27 available, also including draws with Fulham and Wolves, with only Saints and Leicester, currently 19th, managing fewer in the same period. It is relegation form, which has left Spurs 14 points adrift of fourth place but just eight clear of the drop zone with 21 games played.
