Up next for Tottenham is a Carabao Cup fixture against Championship side Coventry City.
Not only will the Lilywhites want to get over the North London Derby loss with a win, they’ll want to back their manager’s recent words by at least going deep in cup competitions this season.
In his latest interview, the man from Down Under talked about what he wanted to do in the forthcoming games.
Ange Postecoglou asks for “consistency” amid topsy-turvy Tottenham form
Ahead of Tottenham’s opening Carabao Cup fixture against Coventry City, Ange Postecoglou was asked, among other things, about how he and his players would keep gunning for glory amid their stop-and-go start to the season. Here’s how he responded:
“It’s a consistency [thing] and sort of belief in what we’re doing. I’ve said before it’s not an easy process. It at times can feel pretty disheartening when things don’t happen smoothly, but I’ve always believed in certain things to be true, and one is that if you keep playing well, the results will come, but you just can’t do that and expect it to happen.
“There’s still elements in our game that we need to improve on. I think when you look at the four games, I think that you could summarise all four games in a very similar way of us, outperforming the opposition but not taking the critical moments in our favour and you pay a price for that.
“But that doesn’t mean you need to change your approach. If anything, you just need to keep doing what you’re doing and make sure that in those critical moments, we take advantage of it.”
Postecoglou, as quoted by Football London.
The recent North London Derby loss was Spurs’ second consecutive defeat in the Premier League; they lost to Newcastle before the international break.
Spurs have managed just one win in their opening four games of the season. After their midweek fixture against Coventry, they take on Brentford this Saturday.
Here comes the noise
Spurs were always going to be subjected to more scrutiny this season, so there’s little surprise that hard questions have started coming Postecoglou’s way this early in the season.
The Spurs manager’s dogmatic and intense football seems highly unlikely to work in the long term, but if he can deliver Spurs a silverware or two while taking them to, or close to, the top of the Premier League in the short term, the Hotspur faithful will hail him as a hero for ages to come.
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To get that chance, however, Postecoglou may need to acknowledge the need for pragmatism. It is highly unlikely that he would change his approach this late in his career, but that may very well turn out to be the deciding factor in whether he ends up having a “successful” time in North London.
