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Reuters
Apr 21, 2025, 06:51 PM ET
The uncommon grin Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou wore 4 days agone successful Frankfurt was replaced by the much acquainted frown arsenic a 2-1 location defeat to Nottingham Forest made it 18 Premier League losses for the London nine this season.
Tottenham recovered themselves 2-0 down aft 16 minutes and though they dominated the crippled thereafter and got a precocious lifeline done Richarlison, it proved different communicative of woe successful a play that could go Tottenham's worst successful presumption of points gained since they managed lone 44 successful 1997-98.
With a pugnacious run-in to come, including a travel to champions-elect Liverpool adjacent weekend, they are down successful 16th spot with 37 points. Only the bottommost 3 clubs person mislaid much games.
Tottenham's 1-0 triumph against Eintracht Frankfurt which enactment them successful the Europa League semifinals kept their play live and Postecoglou could yet present connected his assertion that helium ever wins a trophy successful his 2nd play astatine a club.
But different damaging league defeat, their eighth astatine location successful the league this season, increases the unit connected the 59-year-old erstwhile Celtic manager.
"It's different crippled we person mislaid wherever we shouldn't suffer and it's been a large portion of our play successful that we are conscionable making things truly hard for ourselves successful cardinal moments," Postecoglou told reporters.
"Giving distant mediocre goals. It's a shame due to the fact that our shot was outstanding and we wholly dominated the game. Even with the 2 goals we conceded I inactive consciousness similar we deserved to triumph the game. At the aforesaid clip it's different nonaccomplishment and different unacceptable loss.
"For america it's conscionable been a play wherever astatine times, adjacent with the challenges we person had, it's truly frustrating due to the fact that our shot was truthful good. We person mislaid different game."
Tottenham were booed astatine halftime, but the temper was a small much forgiving astatine the extremity aft a stirring climax to the crippled successful which the hosts pinned Champions League chasers Forest back.
"I don't request to accidental thing to the fans. The fans are disappointed and aggravated arsenic we are arsenic well," Postecoglou said.
"The fans intelligibly wouldn't beryllium blessed with our results but neither americium I oregon the players. From our perspective, it's thing we request to judge work that we person fallen abbreviated of the standards we request to have.
"The flip broadside of that is that the frustrating spot is it's not due to the fact that of the mode we are playing due to the fact that our shot contiguous was precise akin to the Frankfurt crippled astatine location which was different crippled we should person won."
