What happened to AngeBall?
This question was about the minds of many observers in Brentford on Sunday, when Tottenham fell deeper and deeper, adhering to their upcoming progress before they eventually got a second goal at the end of the first half to conclude the victory that is needed in morale.
This was the defensive offer for the Ange Postecoglou era, where Spears achieved 49 permits, 15 more than any other match in the Premier League under it. The average maps of the position on that game, in contrast to the rest of the season, explains how the coerral Spears was.
The average of Tottenham sites against Brentford (right) witnessed only two players in the opposition – unlike their usual approach to the foreground
It was an incomparable performance in the early days, at the time of the responsible postecoglou, where Tottenham fans discovered in the exciting front approach on their side.
Last season, AngeBall briefly took the Premier League by the storm, before injuries to the main players and mixed its inappropriate shape. The defeat at home confirmed to Chelsea its commitment to the Australian demands, even when it reaches nine players.
Despite all the challenges facing this second campaign, postecoglou and its players have been largely adhered to the general idea. Spears is ranked second on the first trip to get a high rotation, ranked fifth to see the extent of the stadium in the ball again, and the first to the amount of passes that the opposition allows to do before restoring possession.
They usually take the game to their opponents and do not claim them.
Until Sunday.
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The most prominent of the Premier League match between Brentord and Tottenham
The victory over the Thomas Frank team ended a series of four games in the Premier League and seven games that won the competition. There was a clear warning in Tottenham's play in the first half with the ball, not to benefit from possession very easily or to engage in the field. Then they became more pragmatic after Vitaly Janet.
Adaptation pays fruits. But it also brought to the mind An early interview gave postecoglou to Sky Sports At some time before the season before the first Spears campaign.
“No, no companion,” he said, laughing loudly for the proposal that his team might ask for to defend 1-0.
“I can't train this way. I don't know what to do to tell my players in the past five minutes just to stick to one difference.
“If you cut somewhat and change depending on the circumstances they will go there without real clarity about what we are and the type of team we want to be.”
Have you changed postecoglou? not quite. It refers to “circumstances” in this quote, but the crisis of the injury he and his team faced this season – and the subsequent need for players (including teenagers) to play twice a week without rotation – is not something that he would expect.
Since they beat Manchester City 4-0 in Al-Ittihad on November 23, 18-year-old Archie Gray is the second more used player in the Premier League. The defenders of the first choice were marginalized by Christian Romero and Mickey Van de Din for long periods with injury, along with the 1 Golimo Vicario goalkeeper.
This is the context that made postecoglou bristle when the clear question was asked after the match on Sunday. What happened to AngeBall?
“It is very difficult for a group of players to play on Thursday to Thursday and maintain energy levels,” he said. “They are making a maximum effort. This means that you cannot be sharp with the ball and without it. They are human beings, not robots. I know reality.
“We couldn't go out and control it. Burningford had a week to prepare for this, we had 50 hours. In this context, the performance was great.”
Postecoglou also indicated to Tottenham's second goal, a wonderful and wonderful step that PAPE SARR converted, for example, that his team was still looking for opportunities to attack. “We were always a threat when we had it,” he said.
But what is Spears that we will see in the ANFILD in the semi -finals of the Carabau Cup very important with Liverpool? Again, they have 1-0 defense.
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They were beaten 6-3 by Liverpool in the Premier League in North London just before Christmas, but they were involved in a more strict confrontation with the ARNE SLOT team at the first leg of this semi-finals.
Liverpool was more possession, shots and shots on the target, and Rado Dragosin was needed to rid the Trent Alexander-Arnold before the late controversial Lucas Bergval winner.
Van De Ven – who was resting on the weekend while returning to fitness – will likely return to the eleventh, and Spears will surely have a lot of defending the best scorers in the Premier League.
How do they go to that it will be interesting to see …
