Ange Postecoglou is only interested in Tottenham’s progress, despite European talks – Irvine Times

The Spurs withstood a difficult winter with many injuries and they began Sunday in the 15th place, but the second consecutive victory in the Premier League moved them to 30 points and to the 12th.

With the remaining 13 league games, Tottenham is 11 points behind the seventh Newcastle placed, and while Postecoglou will not be fascinated despite the return of the key trio Guggliemielmo Vicario, James Madison and Brennan Johnson, he feels the opportunity to build inertia.

“Given that you asked me about falling about 10 days ago, I don’t think both is where we are looking at,” Postecoglou replied when he asked for a late impetus to Europe.

“It’s only in mid -February. There is an honest way. European football is important for us this year. We are in the Europa League and have the opportunity to have an impact there, but I decided that we could influence the league.

“(That) was a step towards this. We can play better, for sure. We will play better. We have the opportunity to deal with the situation we are in.

“We are not pleased with where we are. It is unacceptable that we are in the situation we are, but the circumstances have dictated it to a large extent.

“The circumstances will change. The boys who have returned will improve and make us stronger. There are still two or three on the horizon, which will also return.

“It’s just one game, but I decided it was an important game if we’re going to start this progress.”

Tottenham’s defender Kevin Danzo is limping while midfielder Rodrigo Bentancourt had an ice package after his departure, but Postecoglou is expecting the duo and captain son Hen-Min to be good for the Saturday trip to Ipswich.

Postecoglou added: “I don’t think it’s something significant, but now it is that we can actually make them recover instead of trying to patch them and throw them away again in the middle of the week.

“I think of what I have heard, it fucks all three of them, but they must be fine.”

The 12th defeat of United’s season of the league continued the heavy start of Ruben Ammonim.

Amorim lost Kobbie Mainoo, Manuel Ugarte and Amad Diallo in the accumulation of matches and called a bench, to a large extent full of teens in Tottenham, with 17-year-old Chido Obi presented for his senior debut late.

“If you see Chido playing, he’s smart with every ball lost in the box, so I wanted another player, but I felt that the team was good during the game and there was no need to change. Chido was the player who could make the difference with a long ball, “explained Amorim.

“At the beginning of the week, we had a squad with time to train, that day after day we lost players.

“I don’t want to use it as an excuse. Every coach in the world has problems with this. “