'The touch is unstable, and the shot is terrible'
Tottenham Hotspur manager Enze Postecoglou's elusive tactics are being hit by intensive saturation. He put the captain, the star of the team with strengths in the opponent, on the bench, and entrusted the front-line striker's heavy responsibility to the young striker he recruited in the January transfer market. It was such a risky adventure.
The result was a fiasco. Tottenham lost 0-1 to Manchester City in the 27th round of the English Premier League (EPL) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, in the early morning of the 27th (Korean time). It blew a golden opportunity to continue the rise of the league's three consecutive wins recently.
Coach Postecoglou's incomprehensible starting lineup is considered the biggest cause of the defeat.
Even locally, it is evaluated as "a change in a bad mood"." On the same day, Postecoglou excluded Son Heung-min from the starting lineup, Dejan Klusevski and Jed Spence, who have recently shown the best form in the team. Legendary commentator Peter Crouch told TNT Sports just before the game that Son Heung-min, Spence and Klusevski were all the best players in the Ipswich away game. Son Heung-min has eight goals and five assists against Manchester City. Coach Pep Guardiola, who is an enemy, is also always burdened by Son Heung-min's presence.
However, Postecoglou excluded Son Heung-min, Klusevski and Spence. Instead, he started Brennan Johnson and Wilson O'Doubert, who had just returned from injury. In addition, Tel, who was dramatically hired on loan in the January transfer market, has been named a front-line striker again.
Tel was recruited by Tottenham with the best treatment, but continues to show poor performance. He played in a total of five games before the match against Manchester City, but only scored one goal. In the other four games, his performance was not remarkable.
In particular, he started against Manchester City and played on the ground for 66 minutes, but he hardly showed his presence.
According to soccer statistics company SofaScore, Tel only had one shot, 80% pass success rate (5 attempts, 4 successes), 25% ground competition success rate (4 attempts, 1 success), and 0% air ball competition success rate (1 attempt, 0 success). SoFiScore has a 6.6 rating on these tels. It was the lowest point in the team.
Football London's assessment was more sobering. Only four points were given in grading. As expected, it's the lowest point in the team. Football London responded to Tell's play "I got the ball a few times, but the inaccuracy of the touch scuppered the opportunity. I had a rough night", he explained. Touch is the basic element of basic technology. The fact that the opportunity was canceled because this did not work means that Tel is not in content as a front-line striker.
Nevertheless, Postecoglou is still surrounding Tel. Tottenham is also considering complete recruitment as a replacement for Son Heung-min. It's a strange stubbornness. This stubbornness eventually led to the loss of the team's fourth consecutive league victory.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
