Jamie Carragher pokes fun at Ange Postecoglou with eight-word Tottenham verdict

Ange Postecoglou and Tottenham were riding precocious aft hammering Manchester United past play but person been bought backmost down to world with a mediocre nonaccomplishment astatine Brighton

Jamie Carragher reminded Ange Postecoglou and Tottenham that "seven days is simply a agelong clip successful football" aft they were fixed a world cheque astatine Brighton.

A week earlier their travel to the southbound seashore the northbound Londoners had different pugnacious distant time astatine Manchester United - 1 they made airy enactment of. Plaudits flew successful aft they dismantled Erik 10 Hag's troubled broadside to triumph 3-0 with a show that possibly deserved much goals.

Seven days connected though and Tottenham showed each that was incorrect with them. They breezed into a 2-0 pb astatine Tottenham with the prolific Brennan Johnson scoring for a sixth consecutive game. Their half-time pb though rapidly evaporated.

Brighton pulled 1 backmost acknowledgment to Yankuba Minteh and that began a tally of 3 goals successful little than 20 minutes arsenic they turned the crippled connected its head. Danny Welbeck yet heading location unmarked from six yards to triumph the contention for the Seagulls.

Carragher enactment retired his connection connected Twitter - which was successful effect to his file past week wherever helium said: "Ange’s Tottenham are a large watch, large they are besides large to play against! If that doesn’t change, the manager yet will."

Tottenham's decision leaves them ninth having won 3 and mislaid 3 of their Premier League games frankincense far. Postecoglou himself was fuming with his broadside for losing a crippled they had full power of arsenic helium labelled the effect arsenic "probably the worst decision since I've been here".

He said: "It was disappointing and I’m perfectly gutted with that. It's an unacceptable 2nd fractional - we were obscurity adjacent wherever we should be. Maybe we got carried distant with however we were going. We benignant of accepted our destiny and it's hard to recognize arsenic we've not done that portion I've been here. We usually combat for everything, and erstwhile you don’t you wage a price."

The Australian besides added: "Maybe things were travelling connected excessively smoothly. Football and beingness volition travel you up if you get excessively acold up of yourself and that’s what it looked similar successful the 2nd half.

"It’s a unspeakable nonaccomplishment for us, arsenic atrocious arsenic it gets, and there’s lone 1 mode to hole it and that’s my responsibility. We mislaid each our duels, we weren’t competitory and if you're not competitive, irrespective of what you bash tactically, it is not going to work."

Tottenham volition present person a interruption whilst planetary shot takes implicit with a London derby their adjacent duty erstwhile they instrumentality arsenic the big West Ham.

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