{"id":298974,"date":"2023-11-11T23:39:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=298974"},"modified":"2023-11-11T23:39:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:39:28","slug":"postecoglou-admits-spurs-shouldve-been-more-aggressive-in-2-1-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/postecoglou-admits-spurs-shouldve-been-more-aggressive-in-2-1-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecoglou admits Spurs should&apos;ve been &apos;more aggressive&apos; in 2-1 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ange Postecoglou admits Tottenham could have been &#8216;more positive and aggressive&#8217; after losing their grip on early lead to fall to collapse to stoppage-time Wolves defeat<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tottenham failed to cling on and re-settle at top of the table after Chelsea loss<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But late goals from Sarabia and Lemina poured cold water on Spurs&#8217; hopes away\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why we should get excited about Cole Palmer &#8211; Listen here to It&#8217;s All Coming Up\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou insists Tottenham must accept the pain of defeat after Wolves&#8217; stunning late show.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Sarabia and Mario Lemina scored in stoppage time to cap an astonishing finish, seal a 2-1 win and deny Spurs top spot in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan Johnson&#8217;s first Tottenham goal had given them an early lead and they were set to move two points clear at the summit despite riding their luck for much of the game.<\/p>\n<p>But, instead, Spurs have suffered successive defeats following Monday&#8217;s 4-1 loss to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou said: &#8216;It&#8217;s part of the pain of football when things happen in those circumstances. You&#8217;ve just got to take it. I can&#8217;t fault the players&#8217; effort or their commitment. It was always going to be a tough game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77683713-12737765-image-a-91_1699719299489.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou lamented the &#8216;pain of football&#8217; after Spurs threw away a lead to lose against Wolves at Molineux<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77683859-12737765-image-a-92_1699719302775.jpg\" height=\"433\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Spurs pulled off an impressive late-smash and grab to swipe all three points from the visitors<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77683869-12737765-image-a-93_1699719306483.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham have missed their chance to go two points clear at the top of the table on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We started well but we could have been a little bit more positive and aggressive with the ball. I&#8217;ve got to temper that with the fact we have had so many changes and we&#8217;re not going to get the same, especially when three of your back four are almost starting for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve had a particularly settled line-up. You could see they were feeling it towards the end. For the most part Wolves didn&#8217;t have many big chances but at the end they scored. Wolves were able to lift themselves, particularly with the crowd behind them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The character and commitment was there, don&#8217;t dismiss that. The guys have played their first game of the year and you are changing three of the back four so it&#8217;s fairly disruptive. There are plenty of positives to take.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson gave Spurs, without injured pair James Maddison and Micky van de Ven until January, a third-minute lead when he turned in Pedro Porro&#8217;s cross from close range but, from then, Wolves took control.<\/p>\n<p>Their tenacity and determination left Tottenham struggling but the hosts&#8217; final ball let them down.<\/p>\n<p>It took until nine minutes into the second half for a clear chance on goal to arrive but, when it came, Hwang Hee-Chan scuffed wide with just Guglielmo Vicario to beat.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham looked like they would hang on, even going close to a second when Jose Sa turned Giovani Lo Celso&#8217;s shot over, before Wolves finally found the breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Sarabia, on the pitch for just two minutes, levelled when he collected Matheus Cunha&#8217;s neat pass and smashed a volley past Vicario.<\/p>\n<p>It was a deserved leveller but Wolves wanted more and got it in the seventh minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Doyle&#8217;s quick free-kick sent Sarabia away and he picked out Lemina, running from deep, to poke the ball into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77683965-12737765-image-a-94_1699719346745.jpg\" height=\"388\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brennan Johnson (right) opened the scoring three minutes after kick-off and the travelling side led for much of the game<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/17\/77684473-12737765-31_year_old_came_off_the_bench_in_the_closing_stages_and_netted_-a-7_1699724474089.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pablo Sarabia gave Wolves something to cling onto with his 91st-minute equaliser to make it 1-1\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77683933-12737765-image-a-95_1699719353277.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But Mario Lemina broke Tottenham hearts with his late goal to ensure Wolves didn&#8217;t have to share the points<\/p>\n<p>Boss Gary O&#8217;Neil said: &#8216;It was the most proud I have been of a group I have coached, to produce what they produced against a top side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I would have been very proud of the group even if the game had finished 1-0 to Tottenham. I spoke to the boys at half-time, that the scoreline was irrelevant. We were the better side, don&#8217;t let the scoreline dictate how you feel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I try to make the team resemble me but I was never good enough to produce a performance like that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To be 12 weeks in, we&#8217;re ahead of where we expected to be. There was a lot of noise around the place about how much of a struggle it might be but we&#8217;ve beaten Man City and Spurs, the top two, early on in the transition. We&#8217;re ahead of the curve.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12737765\/Ange-Postecoglou-Tottenham-stoppage-time-Wolves-defeat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ange Postecoglou admits Tottenham could have been &#8216;more positive and aggressive&#8217; after losing their grip on early lead to fall <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Postecoglou admits Spurs should&amp;apos;ve been &amp;apos;more aggressive&amp;apos; 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