Ange Postecoglou insists Tottenham's season would NOT be over with FA Cup defeat

Spurs brag claims getting the sack “doesn’t participate my caput space” earlier Sunday's sojourn to Aston Villa aft humiliating Carabao Cup exit astatine Anfield

Ange Postecoglou has insisted Tottenham’s troubled play does not beryllium connected Sunday's FA Cup necktie with Aston Villa arsenic helium claimed getting sacked “doesn’t participate my caput space”.

The unit and problems are piling connected the Aussie brag with Richarlison present retired with a calf strain and nary clip framework for the instrumentality of Micky Van de Ven. Postecoglou, 59, has a arrogant grounds of ever winning a trophy successful his 2nd play astatine a club.

But with Spurs down successful 14th successful the Premier League aft lone 2 wins successful 12, FA Cup decision volition permission the Europa League arsenic the lone imaginable way to silverware. Tottenham volition request to play different 7 games to assistance the European trophy successful Bilbao connected May 21.

Asked if the full play hinges connected the Villa game, Postecoglou said: “No, due to the fact that we’ve got different games afterwards. People volition ever effort to make a script wherever determination is immoderate benignant of melodramatic event.

“The world of it is, accidental we triumph Sunday, what does that mean? That we tin spell successful against Manchester United the pursuing week (February 16) and accidental good we conscionable won the biggest crippled of the year, truthful that’s OK?

“I don’t judge that. I get that radical privation the play astir it. It's inactive a crippled you person to triumph to progress, truthful the pressure's the same.

“The world of it is we person an important crippled connected Sunday that we privation to triumph to enactment successful the competition. Then we person an important crippled the pursuing Sunday. So thing is season-defining until you get to the end.”

The menace for Postecoglou is that his extremity successful North London volition travel earlier his missing players are backmost successful action. “That doesn’t participate my caput space,” helium insisted. “I get that’s evidently a monolithic taxable of treatment due to the fact that erstwhile things aren’t going good you look astatine the idiosyncratic who’s mostly liable for that and that’s me. It is what it is.

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"You’ve got to get connected with it. It doesn’t alteration the decisions I make, however I feel, however I enactment contiguous oregon however determined I americium to proceed connected this path. Right now, the absorption is connected getting this radical of players recovered for Sunday. It’s a large crippled and hopefully a affirmative effect and past implicit the adjacent mates of weeks we’ll get immoderate important players back, which I deliberation volition help.

The Spurs brag admitted: “Everyone saw determination was a large spread betwixt america and Liverpool ” and past listed 8 players who would beryllium successful his starting squad arsenic mitigation.

He said helium hoped to get “at slightest two, possibly 3 backmost for the Man United game” but helium raised caller doubts implicit the fittingness of Dutch defender Van de Ven who has played lone 45 minutes since December 8.

“Micky astir apt is going to beryllium a spot of a dilatory burner,” helium said. “The ones who are decidedly adjacent are guys similar Vicario, Destiny, Wilson, Madders, Brennan astatine a stretch. They should each beryllium backmost by midweek adjacent week successful presumption of grooming oregon the week after. Over the adjacent 2 weeks, they should each beryllium available.”

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