Manager Ange Postecoglou has slammed his Tottenham team for their derby day defeat to Arsenal, calling their performance and recent form “unacceptable”.
Postecoglou’s side came closest to responding in the second half when Pedro Polo’s shot from an impossible angle hit the post in second-half stoppage time, but they barely threatened in a 2-1 defeat. There wasn’t.
Spurs remain in 13th place with just one win against 20th place Southampton since defeating Manchester City in November, while Arsenal are chasing the title. Postecoglou’s side sit just eight points above the relegation zone.
They next face Everton on Sunday, who are also looking to avoid a relegation battle. sky sports.
Asked for his thoughts on the performance, Postecoglou said: “We weren’t good enough, especially in the first half we were too passive. We let Arsenal take the lead. We gave them control with and without the ball. I was disappointed that we were able to take the lead,” he said. Tempo is never enough.
“That’s not who we are. That’s not how I set the team to play. It wasn’t enough to sit back and let Arsenal play.”
“There is no silver bullet. We have to work hard and come into the fight on Sunday and turn our fortunes and season around. There are always reasons for things to happen, but the reality is that our results in the league and Things are far from good enough.’ That needs to change.
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“We didn’t play close to how I would like. We are an attacking team, with and without the ball. We showed that against Liverpool, but tonight we played too much. We were passive. We were aggressive in the second half, but not enough.
“This is unacceptable to anyone at the club. It’s not right to lose so many games in a league season. “Certainly we want big things to do, but we expect from 18-year-old players. ” [Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall] I am just as hurt as everyone else in not being able to perform on the big day. ”
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Sky Sports News’ Gary Cotterill and Sam Blitz highlight Arsenal’s come-from-behind victory over Spurs in the north London derby.
Arteta praises ‘intense’ performance
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta told TNT:
“The players were great. They played less than 120 minutes 72 hours ago, but their performance was exceptional.
“We worked hard for ourselves and our attitude was great. The purpose and intensity was really good.”
“We’re playing every three days so it’s just the basis and now it’s about the next day. We won today, which was great, but right now it’s about Aston Villa. My confidence is in the result. Not just from what you see every day. Sometimes even in football, you don’t get what you deserve.
“We can’t feel sorry for ourselves. What we can control is performance. And today they did it again.”
Leandro Trossard celebrates giving Arsenal the lead
Regarding the possibility of reinforcements in January, Arteta added: “Yes, that’s right. We lost two big players along with Gabi.” [Jesus] And Bukayo [Saka]. We will try and are actively looking. We lost two very important players. I’ll give it a try and see what I get. ”
