Tottenham’s gamers are hiding behind Ange Postecoglou and Daniel Levy, in response to Paul Merson | Soccer Information

Tottenham’s gamers appear to be they’re now hiding behind Ange Postecoglou and chairman Daniel Levy after their “surprising” midweek show towards Liverpool within the Carabao Cup, says Paul Merson.

Spurs, who journey to Aston Villa within the FA Cup on Sunday, took a one-goal result in Anfield on Thursday night time however have been thrashed 4-0 as they missed out on the possibility to tackle Newcastle in subsequent month’s Carabao Cup ultimate.

In the meantime, Tottenham’s Premier League factors tally leaves them nearer to the relegation zone than a spot in Europe subsequent season, and Merson says Postecoglou’s facet are “horrible” to look at proper now.

“Everyone is hiding behind the supervisor and Levy now, that is what I really feel,” he stated.

“There have been some skilled gamers on the market [against Liverpool]. There have been numerous caps on the market and for me it wasn’t ok. It was like ‘if we get beat it’s going to be all the way down to Ange and it is going to be all the way down to Levy’.

“I believed it was surprising.

“There are methods of shedding. Everyone loses soccer matches, whoever it’s possible you’ll be you [can] lose a soccer match, however there are methods, this can be a semi-final, dig in.

“I feel Ange is caught in between [the Devil and] the Deep Blue Sea now.

“They neither assault nor defend. Not less than earlier than it was gung-ho, it was like we’ll have a load of photographs and we would get effectively beat.

“However now it is like they aren’t actually defending however they are not attacking neither It is a horrible watch. It is a horrible watch in the intervening time.”

Ange: Speak over future ‘does not enter my head’

Postecoglou says will shut out speak about his future and concentrate on attempting to salvage Tottenham’s season once they journey to Villa within the FA Cup.

Postecoglou is aware of hypothesis over his job will intensify if an FA Cup exits follows the heavy Carabao Cup defeat to Liverpool.

Requested if he would nonetheless be in cost in the event that they misplaced at Villa, Postecoglou replied: “That does not enter my head.

“I get that is clearly a large subject of dialogue as a result of when issues aren’t going effectively you take a look at the one that’s largely accountable for that and that is me.

“You have to get on with it. It does not change the choices I make, how I really feel, how I work at present or how decided I’m to proceed on this path.

“Proper now the main target is on getting this group of gamers recovered for Sunday. It is a huge recreation and hopefully a optimistic end result after which over the subsequent couple of weeks we’ll get some vital gamers again, which I feel will assist.

“We’re a straightforward mark in the intervening time. There’s inconsistency in our play, everyone seems to be saying I am making excuses about accidents and it is form of simple, with the membership not having received a trophy in a very long time, for folks to pile on.

“It does really feel like there’s very a lot an eagerness to take the membership down for one cause or one other when the chance exists.

“In the mean time we’re giving them the chance however that may’t chart our manner ahead. That may’t be our motivation to alter folks’s opinions.”