There is an age-old adage that goes – ‘Numbers don’t tell you the full story’. In some cases, they maybe do, even if not the full story, it gives a clear indication of where to probe when something isn’t going right. The numbers surrounding Tottenham this season paint a sorry picture.
22 matches played – 7 wins, 3 draws, 12 (!) Losts, 15 in the Premier League table. 45 goals scored (second highest in the Premier League). 35 Goals allowed. 1 VINGULA in the last 10 games in high-end English. 4 Clean sheets. Do we want to continue?
Well, we don’t need to continue. As such, our purpose is not rubbing salt in the wounds of Tottenham’s enthusiasts. Instead, this is an objective attempt to take a look at “What followed Angel Postocoglou and Tottenham and there is hope?”
With a list of that reading here?
At least six, or if you stretch it, seven, the players on this list would start for Tottenham when it fits. The apparent elephant in the room we need to get out of the way.
It’s not an attempt to apologize, but it’s unimaginable to have such a devastating wave of injuries through the team without consequences. It’s not as if the other groups don’t have injuries, yet no other Premier League team has experienced as much bigger than Spurs in recent weeks and months.
Let’s say that, for example, part of the last 10 Premier League games that played Tottenham if Cristian Romero and Micky Van de Ven began as the central defenders, surely, were the effects obviously different? Of course, this is a hypothetical scenario, but it is supposed.
Ange Postcoglou, motivated through the desire that desire has tried to make the maximum of the team at your disposal. He has tried to connect many holes and the challenge for him is that the maximum of his answers is similar to the circular holes with square plugs.
Playing Archie Gray in central defence is perhaps the best example of this. Make no mistake, the 18-year-old kid is a sensational talent destined to become one of the best midfielders in the Premier League in due course. However, here he is, at the N17, thrown into the deep end, asked to play as a centre-back.
Against Everton, in the maximum recent fit of Tottenham, Ange Postcoglou forced to replace the shape of the team in 3-4-3, to welcome 11 players in shape that he had on the box and the boy, does not did not turn around with Royally! It only in the moment part that the Spurs returned to a 4-2-3-1 that they even began to threaten in the fit.
There is a very notable theory circulating in the global football world about Ange Postecoglou according to which he is a manager who has plans B, his plan B is to make the plan a. cela earned him the label of being stubborn, especially with effects that pass in his direction.
However, digting deeply, anyone who follows Tottenham enough this season will realize that Angel has tried many things. What has bad luck for him has been that maximum of his ideas, exciting on paper, he has not literally translated into action in the action of pitch, which worsens things.
Postecoglou the season with two strikers #10, deploying Maddison and Kulusevski, but he temporarily learned that he did not have the number 6 in his team that could maintain strength with two greatly attacked midfielders. Eventually, he returned to double six.
So this season, the two derbies of northern London tell a story. In the first game of the game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Spurs lost 1-0, but their backs took a step forward, embodying the attacker of Angel Postoclou, placing themselves to cause the top to cause overloads.
When Tottenham reached the leg of the moment in the Emirates, Posttecoglou realized that he wants to protect his vulnerable central defense. Neither Pedro Porro nor Spence in this case ventured a lot, instead of hunting to supply a shield in defense. The fact that it does. No paintings is another story.
The ANGE Postcoglou formula is largely based on the possibility of creating giant spaces and to do it as an elite club, at least one of Tottenham’s ends in the field will have to be Dribblers 1 vs 1 world class, capable to take his boy and shape the possibilities of nothing.
We are talking about Lamines, Dokus, Dembels, Nicos and Leaos Du Monde and, with the exception of Wilson Odobert, which has been injured to perpetuity since her moving of Burnley, nobody else gives this capacity in the Tottenham Teamarrayson Heung-min it turns out to have lost A meter of rhythm, although it has been decent, even excellent.
Dejan Kulusvski has been Tottenham’s most productive player so far this season, playing in midfield or on the right wing. Brennan Johnson is many things, but a 1-on-1 dribbler isn’t one of them. Timo Werner runs quickly, but that’s about everything he does on a football pitch.
Therefore, the blame will be on Daniel Levy and Postecoglou for making poor plans through the team in this regard.
A giant number of players who played for Tottenham last season have collapsed real this time. It is a surprising performance, which in fact is nothing that one can set in postocoglou.
Papa Matar Sarr, Yves Bissouma, Destiny Udogie, Cristian Romero, Rodrigo Bentancur – all those players were pale shadows of their former selves, yet the greatest sadness would arguably have been what James Maddison turns out to have fallen into.
The midfielder who attacked England that once leaned for a normal importance of three lions is no longer a guaranteed initiator for Ange Postcoglou.
There are many arrows pointed to Ange Postcoglou at this time. He walks in the N17 with an ax hoping to fall on his head, but in all likelihood, the same ax falls into Levy’s head.
The president of Tottenham must open the checkbook and indicate to the players in January to attend the Occolou Angel Occolou.
In fact, it is quite unexpected to see Levy persistent with postcoglou, but it is a story absolutely another. With only 10 days to move on to the Move window, it is time for Tottenham president to accentuate and put effective where his mouth is.
Yes, Tottenham are plagued by all those problems. Yes, the Premier League season is a virtual radiation. Yes, Angel Postcoglou turns out not being able to motivate his players and watch to avoid this crisis. However, is there a gentil at the end of the tunnel?
For the first time in many years, Tottenham are very much alive in both the domestic cup competitions and the UEFA Europa League. They also hold a 1-0 lead that they would take to Anfield when they face Liverpool in the Carabao Cup semifinals second leg.
Tottenham also have a date with Aston Villa in the FA Cup, not soon after. The big one though is the Europa league. Spurs are in a largely comfortable position and should they find a way to win their remaining games, they would finish in the top-8 in all likelihood.
While they can forget the punishment of this altered competition, they have several of their first groups in action when circular 16 will arrive.
This article published for the first time in The Lane and Back and Unioned with authorization.
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