Postecoglou takes duty for Tottenham’s struggles

Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou has taken duty for the group’s inconsistent begin to the season. Regardless of flashes of promise, Spurs have struggled to take care of momentum, with their latest 2-1 League Cup defeat to Ipswich City underlining ongoing points.

Postecoglou admitted that latest performances have fallen wanting expectations, and he emphasised the necessity to deal with these inconsistencies. “It’s simply right down to me,” he advised BBC Sport. “I’m not getting constant performances from the gamers. It’s one thing I want to handle. I take duty when their performances don’t meet the degrees they need to.”

Requested by Sky Sports activities if this season’s inconsistency was new for him, Postecoglou responded, “No, it’s been our season to date. It’s been actually inconsistent.”

Within the Ipswich match, Tottenham discovered themselves trailing 2-0 at halftime after objectives from Sam Szmodics and Liam Delap. Rodrigo Bentancur’s late header narrowed the hole, however Spurs couldn’t discover an equalizer. The group’s tendency to concede early has been notable, with Tottenham falling behind 1-0 in 13 of their 15 house Premier League matches in 2024—a file surpassed solely by Spurs in 1994, Ipswich in 1994, and Crystal Palace in 2017.

“There are totally different causes [for it],” Postecoglou defined to BBC Radio 5 Reside. “At the moment we had been approach too passive. For those who give the opposition that a lot of a head begin, it’s rather a lot to claw again.”

Following Tottenham’s September defeat to Arsenal within the North London derby, Postecoglou had acknowledged, “I all the time win issues in my second season” and expressed confidence that Spurs might nonetheless problem for silverware this season. Nonetheless, with a demanding fixture checklist forward, he faces the problem of stabilizing the group’s type and reviving their European ambitions.