Mauricio Pochettino cut a frustrated figure as Tottenham lost 1-0 to Manchester City. Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal of the game in the sixth minute, and the Spurs boss was upset at conceding early on.
Playing at an atrocious Wembley pitch didn’t help but the manager did comment that our performance deserved more.
🗣️ Mauricio felt we deserved more after tonight’s narrow defeat against Man City at Wembley: pic.twitter.com/mJuTUnRgvm
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) October 29, 2018
Pochettino was right in saying we cannot concede poor goals and the Mahrez one was a perfect example of that. Kieran Trippier made a couple of mistakes in the lead up to that goal, and some players didn’t turn up for the game.
The loss puts our start to the Premier League season in perspective. We are already five points behind the leaders and have lost to two of our rivals at home, City and Liverpool.
A number of the Tottenham fans were upset at the performance and ripped into Trippier on Twitter.
We deserved more. He deserved more backing from the owner in the transfer window.
— Delenquent (@delenquent) October 29, 2018
We wont win these anything with Davies & Trippier – Davies just isn’t good enough period, way out of his depth and Trippier can’t even beat first man on corners and freekicks now and has lost so much pace, his heads gone. Even give KWP a run at Left Back FFS 🙄
— tim walsh (@tincup6969) October 29, 2018
Sorry sounding like a broken record now. Been lucky this season to be where we are. Should have been investment in the summer, when we could lure players with CL. Won’t get anyone in January, and won’t win any trophies. Going to be a long season.
— Alistair Bibby (@AliBibby13) October 30, 2018
Your own fault, tripper should be sold ASAP and AGAIN waiting too long to make subs
— N17 hero (@hero_n17) October 29, 2018
Why not aurier?
— jim (@JamestheyidJim) October 29, 2018
Trippier cannot defend. He has no sense of positioning. Rash decisions one moment then hesitation the next.
— Richard Allen (@RichSpurs1882) October 30, 2018
He keeps playing the guys who make mistakes what do he expect to happen.
— Paul Ferguson (@Fergz16) October 29, 2018
