Tottenham Hotspur Chief coach Ange Postcoglou expressed his frustration with the luck of his team in front of the goal during their Europa League Quarter -final draw in the leg with Eintracht Frankfurt And said that his team had fallen out of order with the “football gods” this season.
Pedro PorroThe smart finish has won the spurs a 1-1 Draw in northern London after Hugo Ekitike gave visitors an early advance, but the Postcoglou team wasted a multitude of chances of taking a healthy advance in the return match in Germany next week.
Lucas Bergvall got closer when he reached the goal in the 55th minute before Rodrigo BentancurThe header struck the crossbar a few moments later. Frankfurt goalkeeper Kauã santos Put an exceptional performance in order to refuse the Spurs, with its downtime with the exception of Micky Van de VenThe header refused the hosts a late victory.
“I have resigned from the fact that the gods of football had their eyes elsewhere this year. They are obviously occupied with other clubs and other managers, so whatever we get, we will have to do it without them this year,” said postcoglou to a post-match press conference.
The second season of the Australian coach in charge of the Spurs was disastrous. An injury crisis that has launched several key players from the first team combined with constantly bad performances left the club languid in the 14th place in the Premier league table, having lost more than half of their matches.
The Europa League represents the last chance of the Spurs to save something from its season and put an end to the drought of the 17 -year -old club trophy in the process.
The Spurs may not have won the victory they sought on Thursday, but Postcoglou underlined the performances of several of his players and expressed his happiness with the display of the team.
Asked about Bergvall’s performance, Postcoglou said: “He was great but the whole team was. I thought Rodri (Rodrigo Bentancur) was exceptional. The two backwards defensively and with the ball were really causing problems. Cuti (Cristian Romero) and Micky (Van de Ven) managed their threats very well before the goal we conceded, which was the only disappointing piece.
“The first three worked with Madders (James Maddison) and were really creative. You cannot ask the guys more than what the guys have done, especially in this second half to create so much chance. We do not get the victory but I can no longer ask (for) players. »»
Tottenham Voyage à Face Wolverhampton Wanderers In their next Premier League match on Sunday before going to Frankfurt for the second stage of the quarter -final confrontation with Frankfurt in a week.