Postecoglou tells gamers they ‘cannot settle for’ Tottenham outcomes… with solely backside 4 shedding extra

Postecoglou tells gamers they ‘cannot settle for’ Tottenham outcomes… with solely backside 4 shedding extra

Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou says he warned his gamers that their lengthy listing of defeats is “simply not adequate” after their fifteenth league lack of the season at Fulham on Sunday.

Rodrigo Muniz’s 78th-minute strike and Ryan Sessegnon’s end in opposition to his former membership 10 minutes later lifted Fulham to eighth within the Premier League with victory over Thirteenth-placed Tottenham, who stay 5 factors behind Crystal Palace instantly above them.

“I don’t like shedding,” Postecoglou instructed Spurs Play, talking after a consequence that ensured Spurs have two extra league defeats than every other membership exterior of the underside 4.

“We’ve misplaced an excessive amount of this yr. I’ve stated to the boys that we will’t settle for that – it’s simply not adequate for a membership like ours to lose as many video games as we’ve this yr. We have to deal with it.”

Dom reacts to immediately’s defeat at Fulham. pic.twitter.com/C1SPn3oG3U

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Fulham v Tottenham: Defeats go on for Spurs

Postecoglou had spoken of the problem of following up good performances in Europa League video games on Thursdays with constructive league outcomes 4 days later.

Tottenham beat AZ Alkmaar 3-1 at dwelling three days in the past to achieve the quarter-finals of the competitors 3-2 on combination.

After a quiet first half containing valuable few alternatives, Tottenham appeared extra more likely to make the breakthrough at Fulham after the introductions of Lucas Bergvall and Son Heung-Min for Yves Bissouma and Brennan Johnson on the break.

As an alternative, it was a Fulham substitute, Muniz, who opened the scoring, rolling in his ninth aim of the season in all competitions after being teed up by Andreas Pereira.

Sessegnon, who performed for Spurs for 5 years earlier than rejoining Fulham in 2024, shrugged off Ben Davies and curled in a exact right-footed effort a minute after approaching to strengthen the Cottagers’ push for European qualification after Dominic Solanke had missed one among a number of second-half probabilities for Spurs.

350 Spurs appearances for Ben Davies 🤍

What an achievement 👏 pic.twitter.com/TscI1ecbpC

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Dominic Solanke: Tottenham gamers ‘need to win’

“It’s a troublesome one to take,” stated Solanke. “Coming from that sport within the week, we wished to construct momentum and go on a streak.

“They managed to attain first late within the sport and that form of killed our momentum. We delight ourselves on being a match workforce who can run for 90 minutes, and a number of the time that works in our favour and we will steamroller groups.

“We don’t need to be that workforce that’s nice at some point and unhealthy one other day. We need to attempt to discover that consistency as a result of we need to win each sport.”

Spurs will goal to win for the primary time in 4 league video games on April 3 (8pm GMT), once they go to a Chelsea facet who beat them 4-3 on December 8.