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The remaining beleaguered Tottenham players were left alone to fight it out and again they spluttered to a defeat.
“That’s the timing of things. Just unfortunate for us that we couldn’t get a couple back, we were hoping to get a couple back for this last week and it didn’t happen.
“It’s not damaging for me, it’s obviously disappointing for us in terms of our objectives, but for two-and-a-half months, this small group of players have given everything in multiple competitions,” he said.
“I think they’ve been outstanding. We had 11 first-team players missing today. We started with four teenagers, a 21-year-old goalkeeper coming to one of the best teams in the country, away from home. After playing the best team in the country on Thursday night. After playing a Premier League game last Sunday, playing a Europa game [before that].
“The same group of players. No rotation, and they’ve been doing this since the middle of November. I think they’ve given everything they can and I’ve got so much respect and admiration for the players and how they’ve gone about that. We get a couple of midweeks off now, great for them to recover. We’ll get some players back which is also great for this group that they’ll get some help. And we move on.”
Postecoglou is not blameless and Sunday’s defeat at Aston Villa showed that not only does his style of football struggle without the energy required to press, hassle and provide constant movement for attacking passing options, but it also requires far more discipline than his open team provided.
His team looked structureless in the first half especially. The midfield were anonymous, constantly caught out of position and failing to protect the defence, leaving a wide swathe of space through the centre of the pitch whenever they lost the ball. That’s the kind of meandering display that hands Postecoglou’s critics ammunition.
