Tottenham Hotspur have acted “Spursy” once again by losing a 2-0 lead against Chelsea to lose 4-3 after 90 minutes and additional time.
Ange Postecoglou, who made some big statements at the beginning of the season that seem like boastful statements at the moment, is not entirely pleased and has made it known in as diplomatic a way as he could.
“Obviously, it’s a painful and disappointing. We started the game awfully well, again, played some fantastic football, apart from the goals we scored, but then we lose {statorium_player pid=3071 sid=343 text=”Cristian [Romero]”} after the second goal, which is just the way it’s going for us.
“We don’t seem to get any time to get a real foothold in games or in our season. That disrupted us for a little bit, they obviously scored, but I still felt in the first half we had the bigger moments and could have got a third goal to kill the game off. In the second half, they started with a bit of impetus, got an equaliser, then we had a massive moment with Sonny to go 3-2 up, and that’s where the game can swing.”
“We don’t take that, and then we let ourselves down with two poor challenges in the box to give away penalties, that gave them the advantage and left us with a mountain to climb.”
“The boys are giving everything. We’re on fumes at the moment in terms of this playing squad, and what we didn’t need was to lose another player in that position. To be fair, Cristian wasn’t the one I was worried about, Micky was the one I was worried about, and he’s come off with a totally different injury. Cuti is a leader, a World Cup winner.”
“If you want someone to take control of a game, he’s the man. If you then lose him after 20 minutes, it doesn’t allow us to do that. Even after that, I still felt we had big moments to get a third goal and kill the game off.”
“There’s a couple of decisions I thought today that definitely went against us,” Postecoglou said.
“It almost feels like no-one is in control because everybody is scared to make a decision to overturn somebody else. Referees are scared to make decisions in case they get it wrong, VAR don’t want to intervene and I get that because you don’t want disruptions to the game. You just have to cop out.”
“We worked awfully hard, but to give away two goals and you give away two penalties unnecessarily against a quality side anyway, you make things very difficult for yourself.”
