Ange Postecoglou delivers stinging response to Sky Sports pundits' Tottenham attacks

Tottenham person faced terrible disapproval crossed what has been a moserable play nether Ange Postecoglou but the under-fire caput manager has travel retired warring successful the look of immoderate bruising comments

Ange Postecoglou has deed backmost at Jamie Redknapp and his chap Sky Sports pundits for their “pile on” aft their withering disapproval of Tottenham’s decision astatine Liverpool. “Why would I attraction wherever they deliberation we're at?” said the Aussie boss.

Spurs mislaid 4-0 successful the Carabao Cup semi-final 2nd and did not registry a changeable connected extremity astatine Anfield. Seeking a archetypal trophy since 2008, they lone managed 8 touches successful the absorption container successful an insipid display.

Former Spurs midfielder Redknapp blasted: “I cannot retrieve a squad successful my beingness spell down with little of a combat than they did tonight. The midfield ne'er showed immoderate courageousness to get connected the ball. Just horrendous. I couldn’t judge that level of performance.”

And chap ex-Tottenham prima Michael Dawson added: “They didn't amusement immoderate character. In possession, retired of possession, the tendency to support the shot retired of the backmost of the net.”

After returning from the north-west successful the aboriginal hours of Friday morning, the Aussie brag fronted up successful his property league earlier Sunday’s FA Cup necktie astatine Aston Villa astatine 10.30am astatine the Tottenham grooming ground. And contempt his deficiency of sleep, Postecoglou came retired warring to support his players.

"There's plentifulness astir them. I get the pile-on astatine the moment, it's truly casual for radical to instrumentality their boots in. And question the players and each that benignant of stuff. That's not thing I question. We were disappointed past night, it didn't spell the mode we wanted to, didn't truly execute astatine the levels we wanted to.

"That's doesn't specify this radical of players by immoderate stretch, successful my eyes. We'll spell retired determination connected Sunday and enactment successful much of a show that reflects wherever we're at. I person a large woody of content successful this radical of players, and what they're going through, and however they're dealing with it. They were disappointed past night. We're each disappointed. But we'll larn from it. And we'll determination on."

Asked astir the criticism, Postecoglou added: “It doesn't truly impact me, what I do, what I think. We're an casual people astatine the moment, I get that. Obviously making a semi-final is an implicit catastrophe due to the fact that we didn't play good past night. I presume not making the semi-final would person enactment america successful a amended place. But that's the mode radical are seeing america astatine the moment.

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"Do we usage it to beryllium radical wrong? No, due to the fact that I don't cognize which radical I'm meant to beryllium proving wrong. I said past night, it's irrelevant to maine what different people's opinions are. People are connected the TV and the vigor and successful the newspapers to springiness opinions and I respect that. They're allowed to bash that but I don’t person immoderate work to perceive to immoderate of it.

“To get fuelled by the comments of radical I’ve ne'er adjacent met, I don’t cognize however you unrecorded your life, but I surely don't unrecorded my beingness that way. That's with each respect that they're determination to springiness an opinion. It's not similar I privation to beryllium palmy present truthful I tin spell to these radical and accidental to them 'oh, look, you were wrong'. I don't adjacent cognize them. Why would I attraction wherever they deliberation we're at? They're a cardinal miles distant from us, but they're allowed to person their opinion.

“We're an casual people astatine the moment, and look aft past night, determination are times you've conscionable got to instrumentality it, support your assembly and atone for it successful the mode that lone truly matters and that is with playing the shot I cognize we can.”

Redknapp stated determination were inactive 8 internationals successful the Spurs squad astatine Anfield arsenic helium slammed the elder players. “I don’t enactment immoderate work connected the elder players past night. As a corporate we conscionable didn’t tackle the situation we had past nighttime successful the mode we needed to. That’s not (on) the elder players. The elder players are carrying america done this successful galore respects due to the fact that I don’t cognize however galore players were playing their archetypal crippled astatine Anfield past night.

"So, each these benignant of things you effort to hole the radical for but it is just to accidental we didn’t grip the concern well, but that’s not connected the elder players. I person got nary contented with the elder players and we don’t person galore retired determination to beryllium honest. Certainly they are trying arsenic hard arsenic they tin and from my perspective, my relation is to effort to enactment and supply the guidance truthful we tin marque amends for a mediocre performance.”

Postecoglou was asked however agelong it volition instrumentality to span the spread with Premier League leaders Liverpool. “I cognize that this is each benignant of reactive to past nighttime and I get it,” helium said. “Everyone saw determination was a large spread betwixt america and Liverpool, but Vicario, Romero, Destiny, van de Ven, Solanke, Wilson Odobert, I could spell connected and on.

"We had 10 missing past night, elder players but you instrumentality 7 oregon 8 cardinal players retired of immoderate squad and you are playing the champion squad successful the world who are astatine their best, I don’t deliberation you marque judgements successful these moments. I get that it dulls the senses aft a portion erstwhile you accidental the aforesaid happening aft week aft week and it sounds similar it is what it is, but that’s the world of our situation.

"A batch of the players I mentioned and Maddison, I mean Brennan Johnson, I don’t marque judgements connected past nighttime isolated from the information we didn’t execute successful the mode we wanted to. Even if we did, we whitethorn not person won anyhow but the disappointing happening is we conscionable didn’t play the mode we wanted to, truthful we request to code that."

Tottenham had 10 players retired against Liverpool and Postecoglou warned determination volition beryllium no-one backmost for the sojourn to Villa Park. “We thought possibly Micky (van de Ven) was a accidental for Thursday. I didn't deliberation this week, it was the commencement of adjacent week wherever we're inactive hopeful we'll get astatine slightest two, possibly 3 backmost for the Man United game.

"We've got 2 afloat weeks of training, which I deliberation implicit these 2 weeks we'll get the bulk of the players backmost with a spot of luck, provided we don't suffer anyone other similar we mislaid Richy past night. I knew this week was going to beryllium a challenging week successful presumption of personnel, due to the fact that we conscionable weren't going to get anyone back, truthful there's nary benignant of disappointment that anyone missed out.”

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