Tottenham breaking wrong records to end 2024 but judgement on Ange Postecoglou should wait
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As 2024 draws to a close, the statistics make for grim reading for Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou and the club. Spurs picked up just 52 Premier League points over the calendar year – their lowest return since 2008 – and go into 2025 on the back of a run of just two wins from 10 games following Sunday's 2-2 draw with Wolves.
![[Tottenham defender Destiny Udogie leaves the pitch injured against Wolves]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2024/12/29/20/46/SEI234478097.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
Hee-chan Hwang's early strike means Postecoglou's side went 1-0 down for the 15th home game in 2024, the most ever by a Premier League team in a calendar year, while Jorgen Strand Larsen's late equaliser left Spurs without a win in five straight matches in north London – again, their worst run since 2008.
There are, of course, mitigating factors to Spurs' wretched form. Rebuilds are always tough, while Postecoglou has been dealing with an unprecedented injury crisis – which he has described as the worst of his 28-year coaching career – since the start of winter.
The head coach was without seven first-team players on Sunday and had "no choice" but to start Radu Dragusin for the 14th time in 15 games, despite the centre-half picking up an ankle complaint in the defeat at Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day. Spurs finished the match with a back five of veteran goalkeeper Fraser Forster, Pedro Porro, Dragusin, teenager Archie Gray and Sergio Reguilon, who was making his first league appearance for the club since April 2022.
