'I hope': Ange Postecoglou says he wants two Spurs players to be 'disappointed' after NLD loss last night
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Ange Postecoglou is not a happy man as Tottenham Hotspur suffered a 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in the North London Derby.
Tottenham are on a terrible run in the Premier League.
Spurs have won just one and lost six of their last nine fixtures in the league. They are 13th in the table now and could drop down to 14th if Manchester United win their game in hand.
Postecoglou was disappointed with how his team performed against Arsenal on Wednesday night, so much so that he wants the two players who actually played well to feel some pain.
Ange Postecoglou wants Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray to be ‘hurting’
Tottenham started the game in terrible fashion against Arsenal.
Spurs barely got out of their own half in the first 20 minutes of the game. They were getting dominated and deserved to go a goal or two down.
However, luck was on their side at the time as Son Heung-min opened the scoring in the 25th minute to give Tottenham a surprise lead.
Despite the score on the board, Spurs continued to play passive football, and that allowed Arsenal to score two quick-fire goals before the break to win the game.
Every Tottenham player apart from Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall and to a degree Djed Spence failed to deliver, and that is disappointing.
After the game, Postecoglou was asked if he saw the two teenagers’ performance as a positive despite the result. The Australian disagreed and claimed that he hopes Bergvall and Gray ‘are hurting’ despite their own displays.
He told Football London: “I want them disappointed. This can't be accepted by anyone at the club. Us losing so many games in a league season is not right.
“I know we are going through a tough trot and are asking big jobs but I hope they are hurting, the 18-year-olds, as much as anybody else in terms of us not being able to deliver on a big night.”
Senior Tottenham players are letting Postecoglou down
Postecoglou was clearly in no mood to focus on the positives after his side’s disappointing performance, and we can’t blame him.
Seeing two 18-year-olds perform significantly better than all the senior professionals in the side shows the big problem Spurs are facing right now.
Son scored a goal but he barely did anything apart from that, while James Maddison can’t even make the starting lineup anymore because of how poor he has been over the last few months.
Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke were the only two senior players who looked like they were trying, but that is not enough at all against a team as good as Arsenal.
One league win in nine is a shocking statistic. Postecoglou has to find a way to turn things around – if he doesn’t, he will be shown the door.
