Tottenham Hotspur suffered their 10th Premier League defeat of the season against Newcastle United, despite a spirited performance from the players. Manager Ange Postecoglou expressed pride in his team's effort but lamented the lack of results. The match was marred by controversial handball decisions, adding to Tottenham's frustration.
This moment is as big a test of the chairman as it is of Ange Postecoglou The illness that ripped through the training ground this week – no Lasagnas in sight – might have been a turning point, but not for the reasons you would expect. It is the essence of Postecoglou at his barnstorming best, all-guns-blazing, youngsters on the bench, backs against the wall and the world.
There is just one flaw to all this – Tottenham Hotspur lost another Premier League football match, their 10th of the season, against the same outfit who inflicted the first. They have not claimed three points at home since the Bug-ridden, belligerent they may have been – they went down fighting. But down they went, yet again. Postecoglou insisted afterwards that he was “hugely proud” given the circumstances. “I’m just shattered the boys didn’t get results we deserved… it was a game we deserved to win and on any other day we would have won.”For his part he has repeatedly said he is “sick of excuses”. That risks him being judged without context. The first six minutes were both the best and worst of Spurs and the absolute nadir of the handball rule. Lucas Bergvall was at the centre of it all – an unchallenged surge into the final third leading to Pedro Porro’s cross, headed in by Dominic Solanke ahead of the returning Sven Botman. Not 120 seconds had passed at the other end when Bergvall’s cross would have found a teammate, had it not been intercepted by Joelinton’s arm. In a “natural position” – per theAll that remained was for Bruno Guimaraes to tee up Anthony Gordon, a forward with the ice coolness an onlookingmanager and he must have been delighted by both early goals, Gordon’s strike his 17th in 23 games against the Big Six since joining from Everton two years ago. Dan Burn was equally fortunate not to receive a second yellow for a handball that was nevertheless given by referee Andrew Madley. Newcastle’s second, at least, was incontestabl
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