Chelsea 1-0 Tottenham (Fernandez 50′)
STAMFORD BRIDGE — Ange Postecoglou, you don’t know what you’re doing.
He means well and speaks from the heart, but Postecoglou is getting himself into trouble where trouble need not be found. If it ends with his untimely termination at Tottenham, he will have no one to blame but himself.
The 59-year-old stood and stared in defiance last night, hand cupped to his ear and glaring at his own team’s fans, after his second-half substitute Pape Sarr had seemingly changed the game. The midfielder had effected a rare turnover in the opposition half, mugging Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo within five minutes of his introduction, and promptly rifled the ball into the goal from distance.
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Read MorePostecoglou felt vindicated. Then five minutes later, he wasn’t. Referee Craig Pawson ruled the goal out and Spurs were back at nil. The Australian manager wagged his finger high in the air, furious that such a marginal foul by Sarr had ruled out “a cracking goal”. It was the forlorn act of a man with little left to give.
“I am in such a disconnect with the world these days, mate,” Postecoglou said wearily after 1-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge, asked if he thought he was alienating the fans.
He later added: “It doesn’t bother me. It’s not the first time they’ve booed my substitutions. That’s fine.
“It doesn’t affect me, if that’s what the fans feel, if they feel that I’m not doing a good job…[ ]…They’re the ones that will be here long after I’m gone. It doesn’t affect me.
“What I try and focus on is the things I can control. I can’t control the fans.”
It’s an admirable attempt to deflect from a clear and understandable moment of weakness, but Postecoglou probably does not realise that he is building his own gallows.
“There’s a disconnect between the two [Tottenham fans and Postecoglou] at the moment. It’s not ideal for the manager,” said Jamie Redknapp on Sky Sports.
And sure, Postecoglou has been backed into a corner by unfortunate circumstance and his own stubbornness. Once again, his reliance on a high defensive line was exploited by Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson, who hit the post on the first minute of the game after a simple long ball split Spurs open.
Injuries too have been a running theme, but the Tottenham boss thought he had revived some defensive stability by being able to pick Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero together again.
“We’ve missed it, that understanding and relationship that those two seem to have had since the first day we put them together,” he said before the game.
He probably wished he hadn’t when neither man noticed Enzo Fernandez in the penalty area and he scored the only goal of the game.
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And for all that Tottenham fans did chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing” when their boss tried to make his game-changing double substitution, they did not have Postecoglou front and centre of their complaints all game long. There are dissenting flags in the crowd at every game these days, but they bear not the name of Postecoglou, but of Daniel Levy and Enic, his employers. Ask almost any match-going Spurs supporter what is wrong with the club and the majority will start their diatribe with Levy’s name.
Thousands marched down the Seven Sisters Road to demonstrate against his running of the club in February when Man Utd came to town. Another protest is planned this weekend. This was also the first Spurs game since Levy hit back by telling fans the club “cannot spend what we do not have” in their annual accounts.
None of them chanted “Ange out”.
So mate, here is some free advice from someone with no skin in the game: keep your head down and let your boss be a lightning rod for the animosity and frustration. If you win the Europa League you might even survive the summer.
And then in the new season, hope springs eternal. Even at Tottenham Hotspur.
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