James Maddison's brutally honest Tottenham assessment as pressure grows on Ange Postecoglou

Ange Postecgolou's Tottenham suffered a 5th decision successful their past six Premier League matches and midfielder James Maddison gave an honorable verdict aft the nonaccomplishment astatine Everton

Tottenham midfielder James Maddison accepted the squad hasn't been bully capable aft different decision saw manager Ange Postecoglou travel nether adjacent much pressure.

Postecoglou's squad fell 3-0 down earlier half-time against Everton astatine Goodison Park connected Sunday. Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison pulled goals backmost aft the break, but it was excessively little, excessively late.

The effect leaves Spurs down successful 15th, conscionable 8 points wide of the relegation zone. They person picked up conscionable 1 constituent from their past six Premier League outings, conceding 16 times during that run.

Former Celtic brag Postecoglou took contented with the enactment of questioning successful a BBC interview aft the latest loss. Maddison, however, has simply focused connected wherever the squad has been lacking.

“We're successful a pugnacious moment," Maddison told nine media. "I've not got excessively overmuch to say, to beryllium honest. The squad's a spot depleted but the archetypal fractional was obscurity adjacent bully enough.

When asked astir the club's wounded list, helium said: "It's ne'er ideal, but it doesn't explicate the 3-0 scoreline astatine half-time. We've conscionable got to beryllium stronger and support amended and beryllium much resilient. With everything considered it's a pugnacious moment, and done a spot of adversity we've got to instrumentality unneurotic and grind it out, it's the lone way."

The erstwhile Leicester prima added: "The fans are going to beryllium rightly disappointed. We've got to take that disapproval connected the chin, each of us. They're entitled to their sentiment - a fewer unhappy fans successful the distant extremity there, and rightly so. You've got to ain up to it, you've got to judge that we weren't bully capable and instrumentality that disapproval connected the chin."

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Spurs saw Dominic Solanke articulation their absentee database earlier the travel to Merseyside, with Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Brennan Johnson besides sidelined. They started dilatory against David Moyes' side, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Iliman Ndiaye connected people earlier Archie Gray's ain extremity connected the changeable of half-time made it three.

Moyes' broadside held connected for a archetypal triumph since the manager began his 2nd spell, but it was a much hard day for Postecoglou. “It was a pugnacious effect for america and evidently archetypal half, we struggled to get power of the game," the visiting manager told the BBC.

"Obviously, made immoderate changes successful the squad that astir apt weren’t adjuvant successful the extremity – players struggled to travel to presumption with it and Everton capitalised connected it. But 2nd half, the players enactment successful the close response. Credit to them but we evidently fell short.”

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