‘Not good vs evil’ – Ange Postecoglou defends Arsenal over ‘dark arts’

Ange Postecoglou admits that portion helium doesn’t similar the shot ‘dark arts’ helium has nary contented with Arsenal’s usage of them.

The fallout from Manchester City’s aggravated gully with Arsenal past Sunday continues to rumble on, with the Gunners’ usage of the ‘dark arts’ splitting opinion.

Their time-wasting antics and antiaircraft tactics person been arsenic praised and criticised by pundits and rival players.

Tottenham brag Postecoglou witnessed immoderate of this during the caller northbound London derby decision and believes it is conscionable portion of the crippled though insists helium volition not beryllium teaching his players the aforesaid tricks.

In his property league up of Spurs’ Europa League clash against Qarabag, the manager was asked astir Arsenal’s ‘dark arts’ and replied: ‘You’re making it dependable arsenic if it’s bully versus evil, similar Batman versus… whoever, I don’t cognize my superheroes that well.

‘I deliberation it’s each portion of the crippled and it’s ever existed. I’ve said earlier I don’t similar it, I don’t judge successful the acheronian arts.

‘I don’t cognize however to bash it, it’s conscionable not successful my constitution but I’ve seen it beryllium a precise effectual tool. My happening has ever been if teams are going to spell down that way, we’ve got to beryllium adjacent much disciplined to marque definite we don’t get distracted by them.

‘Ultimately the relation of each manager, each squad is to effort and unsettle the absorption 1 mode oregon different and immoderate bash it by trying to disrupt and benignant of curtail immoderate benignant of momentum from the opposition.

‘Others privation the momentum they privation to person the dominance truthful it conscionable depends which broadside of the coin you autumn on.

‘But you cognize the crushed I bash what I bash is due to the fact that that’s the abstraction I’m comfy in. For maine to benignant of alteration my attack would mean maine delving into an country that I don’t truly know.’

Several of City’s players took peculiarly contented with however antiaircraft Arsenal played against them, but again Postecoglou, who notably refuses to tweak his ultra-attacking tactics, has nary contented with Mikel Arteta’s methods.

‘I deliberation football’s ever going successful those cycles. There’s ever been ascendant teams who are much possession dense and different times wherever it’s been teams that necessitate little of the ball,’ helium added.

‘You get the champion teams who person a play of domination playing a definite way. It invariably means that others effort and benignant of travel that method and if it’s the flip broadside past it goes the different way.

‘There’s ever been a benignant of rhythm that shot goes done wherever a definite benignant of tactical play ends up dominating for a play of time, till idiosyncratic comes on and comes up with thing antithetic and changes things.’

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