The numbers surrounding Ange Postecoglou’s tenure at Tottenham proceed to worsen.
A 4-2 loss away to Wolves on Sunday condemned Postecoglou’s facet to their seventeenth league defeat this season.
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Tottenham went behind within the second minute and by no means recovered, with Matheus Cunha’s 86th-minute strike proving to be the ultimate dagger at Molineux.
Postecoglou bemoaned a string of ‘uncommon’ particular person errors from Guglielmo Vicario and Cristian Romero that proved expensive, however didn’t consider it was a ‘main concern’ for his crew.
However as a lot as Postecoglou might wish to level the finger at his crew’s decline not being a tactical or organisational one, the consequence doesn’t detract from the Australian sinking to a brand new low.
That is as a result of Tottenham’s 17 league defeats this season matches the variety of video games they misplaced below former boss Mauricio Pochettino in his three seasons on the membership between 2015 and 2018.
Underneath Pochettino, the north London facet misplaced simply six, 4 and 7 video games within the 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons respectively.
With six league fixtures to go, there’s each likelihood Postecoglou might eclipse that determine.
Sunday’s defeat additionally left Tottenham languishing in fifteenth place and simply two factors forward of Wolves and West Ham United.
It means the north London outfit is firmly on target to report its worst Premier League end since 1993/94 once they got here fifteenth.
Because the membership staggers and stumbles in the direction of the end line, some Tottenham followers have made no secret of their need for the Australian to be axed.
One in every of which was Tottenham supporter Mark, as he referred to as into talkSPORT’s The Remaining Phrase to vent his frustrations.
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“He hasn’t a clue,” Mark, who was within the away bay at Molineux on Sunday, mentioned.
“For us to get something out of Thursday evening in Frankfurt, to which we’re going out to, he is (Daniel Levy) obtained to eliminate him.
“Put one of many gamers in cost, I do not care.
“Anyone who’s obtained any knacks about them the best way to play a recreation of soccer.”
Mark added: “We have been saying all of it season. He hasn’t a clue. He hasn’t obtained a clue the best way to set a crew up.
“I believe they’ve given up taking part in for him, I actually do.”
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Regardless of Tottenham and Postecoglou’s demise, The Remaining Phrase co-host and former Newcastle supervisor Alan Pardew was reluctant to stay the boot into the Australian.
Nonetheless, Pardew identified Postecoglou’s publicly revealing he had a leak inside the membership was a certain signal of what was to come back on Sunday.
“I believe that (exposing the leak) was an error as a result of as quickly as you do this, you are clearly pointing a finger at anyone,” Pardew mentioned.
“That anyone will know who it’s, however the different gamers and workers members can be considering, ‘Does he assume it is me?’
“It causes pointless stress for you as a supervisor, so that you simply take care of it internally. Why convey it up within the press?
“I used to be actually, actually shocked Ange did that. Then on the again of that, that consequence has are available and I used to be a bit, ‘I might see that coming.'”
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Though Tottenham’s kind within the league has been relatively dismal, Postecoglou’s saving grace is the Europa League as his facet go into the second leg of their quarter-final in opposition to Eintracht Frankfurt locked at 1-1.
The second leg takes place in Frankfurt on Thursday and a loss in Germany might spell the tip of the Australian’s tenure at Tottenham.
