Ange Postecoglou took the blame for his gamers as Tottenham’s Champions League hopes suffered an enormous dent with defeat at Chelsea.
Targets from Trevoh Chalobah and Nicolas Jackson handed Spurs their third Premier League defeat in a row, on what was a snug night for Chelsea.
Postecoglou’s males are nonetheless seven factors behind Aston Villa within the race for fourth, however now solely have one sport in hand, which means their probabilities of ending fourth look slim.
Postecoglou snaps at reporter
Having began the season so nicely, Spurs are at risk of really fizzling out because the marketing campaign attracts to an in depth, and have simply two wins of their final seven league video games.
The previous Celtic boss admitted after the match his workforce’s efficiency wasn’t ok, and he took accountability for the loss.
“It wasn’t ok and I’ve to take accountability for that, it’s on me”, the Australian instructed Sky Sports activities.
“I’m the supervisor and I’m the one placing them on the market and it was not ok.
“After we put in a efficiency like we did within the first half it meant my message wasn’t getting by.”
The Spurs supervisor let his frustrations get the higher of him when questioned on what his message was and snapped again on the reporter.
“Come on mate, we didn’t play nicely”, the 58-year-old stated.
“Would you like me to put in writing you a file of the place it went improper? I really feel like we’ve misplaced a little bit of perception and conviction in our soccer and that’s on me to vary that.
“It wasn’t about conceding the primary aim, it was our strategy to enjoying soccer and we have been nowhere close to ok. That’s on me.
“We’ve been in a little bit of a grind for some time now, that’s a part of our problem and a part of our development. We’ve to go on the market and carry out and generally it’s a must to grind out.
“We have been poor right now.”
Defeat for Tottenham means their former supervisor Mauricio Pochettino has now achieved the double over them following Chelsea’s 4-1 win on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this season.
It doesn’t get any simpler for Spurs as they journey to Anfield on Sunday, whereas Chelsea face one other derby as West Ham go to Stamford Bridge.