Ange Postecoglou addresses Tottenham position as pressure ramps up after Everton defeat

Ange Postecoglou insists that helium cannot beryllium acrophobic with his ain presumption astatine Tottenham portion helium inactive has work for addressing the club's slump.

Spurs’ wretched tally of Premier League signifier continued connected Sunday arsenic they fell to a 12th decision of the play already against struggling Everton, going successful astatine half-time 3-0 down astatine Goodison Park earlier a precocious rally eventually saw them suffer 3-2.

Tottenham finished the crippled conscionable 8 points wide of the relegation portion up of Ipswich's gathering with Manchester City, leaving Postecoglou nether mounting unit to code their dismal league form.

A location necktie with Swedish broadside Elfsborg is past followed by a travel to Brentford successful aboriginal February and 2 important cupful games - the 2nd limb of their Carabao Cup semi-final necktie against Liverpool, which they pb 1-0, astatine Anfield followed rapidly by a travel to Aston Villa successful the FA Cup 4th round.

League meetings with Manchester United, Ipswich and Manchester City past adjacent retired February.

"This is not astir maine but what is astir maine astatine the infinitesimal is that I person the work for the radical of players I bash person to get america done this," Postecoglou said aft the decision astatine Everton.

"That is what I person to absorption on. For maine to absorption connected thing other is abstaining myself from the work I have.

"I americium conscionable determined to get america retired of this, the nine is doing its champion to assistance the players much than maine due to the fact that they are the ones we are asking immoderate monolithic jobs of.

“We had 18-year-olds and a 17-year-old retired determination trying to triumph games of shot for america and others playing week aft week. It is much astir getting the players assistance than maine help.

"I person ne'er played the victim. At the extremity of the time I inactive judge the work lies with maine to get this close and that is wherever I beryllium with things.

"Whatever the circumstances are, and it is just to accidental it is simply a challenging concern for sure, a batch of it is retired of your power arsenic a manager erstwhile you are losing the magnitude of players we are astatine the moment.

"But I inactive person to steer america done and if I commencement worrying astir myself and the cards I person been dealt, it is simply a dereliction of my work and my responsibility. It is not however I spot it. I spot it arsenic these are the cards I person been dealt and it is up to maine to get america retired of it and I person to beryllium bully capable to bash that.

"We are inactive successful 4 competitions this season. We are successful the semi-final of the Carabao Cup, we person a mates of large European games coming up, inactive successful the FA Cup - evidently our league presumption is not large to accidental the least.

"We request to amended that and yet our players volition travel back. It is simply a important endowment that volition travel back. It is not similar this is what it is, determination is information to get done this truthful that erstwhile we bash get our players backmost we tin get thing important retired of our season."