Fans still adore Ange Postecoglou’s brave style of play, but set piece frailties may hamper talented squad’s top four hopes
Ange Postecoglou and his well resourced Spurs side will be challenging for the Champions League spots again this season. Photograph: Kieran McManus/Tottenham Hotspur FC/Shutterstock
Is there a club that spark greater existential debate than Tottenham? After all, what is their purpose? It doesn’t appear to be winning trophies given they’ve now gone more than 6,000 days without doing so. Perhaps it’s purely to entertain – “to dare is to do”, and all that – but, if so, then what was with hiring mangers for whom playing exciting, appealing football appeared to be anathema?
Regardless, here they are, ready to start all over again, and what feels clear is that Spurs’ primary objective for the new season is securing a top-four finish for the first time in three years, thereby reestablishing their place among Europe’s elite. An eye-catching stride has been made with the, the striker, who scored 21 goals last season, 19 of which came in the Premier League, arriving alongside two highly rated 18-year-olds inand Lucas Bergvall.
Tactically Tottenham are, to use that most modern of football phrases, in a good place. There is collective buy-in to the bold, positive approach Ange Postecoglou established in his debut campaign, providing as it did a much-needed contrast to the negative drudgery of the Mourinho and Conte years and almost proving enough to secure a top four finish.
, while Rodrigo Bentancur also impressed at the tournament for Uruguay. At the Euros, Radu Dragusin was a key player in Romania’s progress to the last 16, while Micky van de Ven often found himself coming on as a substitute for a Netherlands team that reached the semi-finals. The goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario was part of Italy’s squad at the Championship but never featured.
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