Angel Postcoglou can always face his assertion that he still wins a trophy in his second season, but he must find a way to inspire Tottenham in difficulty for a shot to the glory of the Europa League. The Spurs underwent their 19th defeat of a demoralizing campaign in the Premier League in Anfield on Sunday, collapsing 5-1 while Liverpool slumped was crowned champion. The predictable loss left them 16th in the table – in progress for their worst finish, because they were relegated from the English elite in 1977, although they cannot go down. The Spurs welcome the Norwegian champions Bodo / Glimt during the first leg of their semi-final of the Europa League Thursday with all their eggs now in a basket.
If they reach, they will face one of the other Manchester United wrestlers or Athletic Bilbao in the final in Bilbao, with the chance to win their first European trophy for 41 years.
Tottenham manager Postocloou brought eight changes to Anfield of the team that had lost against Nottingham Forest last week, and is open to the place where his priorities are.
The Australian was touched by injuries this season, but has almost a full list of players available for Thursday’s first leg in London.
His main concern concerns the aptitude of the captain his heung-min, who missed the last four games with a foot injury.
Pedro Porro, Cristian Romero and Micky Van de Hot will likely come back in defense while Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kuluski should strengthen the midfielder.
A glimmer of hope for Tottenham is that Bodo / Glimt themselves will be weakened as a result of suspensions and that manager Kjetsen has also worries injury.
– Drought trophy –
A Postcoglou 59 frustrated, acknowledged that the “general feeling” indicates an outing of the Spurs even if it wins the Europa League to end Tottenham in 17 years.
“We finished fifth last year, but it’s not a good story,” he said. “A better story is that my mandate has been a disaster and it continues to be.
“I just think that the kind of hysteria that surrounds what is going on right now is very premeditated for a certain result. I hope we can challenge this.”
Postcoglou arrived from Celtic after an unhappy end to the reign of Antonio Conte, in July 2023.
The former boss of Australia took the best start of life in the Premier League of any manager in the history of the competition, winning eight of his first 10 Premier League games with his “Angel Ball” attack football brand.
The president of Tottenham struck Daniel Levy, even told a fans forum in September 2023: “We recovered our Tottenham.”
But the Spurs fogled and finally collapsing badly at the end of the campaign, losing five of their last first League games to miss a place in the Champions League.
This season was sinister for the club and Postoccolou cut a discouraged silhouette when he faced the press after Sunday’s defeat in Anfield.
But despite Tottenham’s misfortunes, he does not believe that he will have to work hard to raise his players for their meeting in the Europa League with Destiny.
“There is a huge opportunity,” he said. “We are going to put all our energies, efforts and focus on this and try to move on to a European final.”
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