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Tottenham Hotspur lost for the sixth time in their last 10 games as they were beaten by Arsenal on Wednesday
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Tottenham Hotspur’s worrying run of form in the Premier League continued on Wednesday night as they were beaten 2-1 by Arsenal in the North London derby.
After some early pressure from Arsenal, it was Son Heung-min’s deflected shot that gave Spurs the lead after 25 minutes. However, two goals in four minutes in the latter stages of the first half proved decisive. An own-goal from Dominic Solanke from an Arsenal corner was followed by a fierce strike from Leandro Trossard, although Tottenham goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky will have been disappointed to allow the shot to go through his gloves.
Tottenham have picked up just eight points from their last 10 games, only Leicester City and Southampton have a worse tally in that time with Everton matching Spurs’ total, having sacked manager Sean Dyche last week. Spurs sit 13th in the table with 26 points, 12 adrift of Newcastle United in fourth. Tottenham have scored 43 goals this season - only league leaders Liverpool have more but the North London outfit have conceded 32 times.
Ex-Arsenal man calls for Postecoglou to be sacked
Former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Petit believes the result and the performance against the Gunners should lead to the sacking of manager Ange Postecoglou. He said on talkSPORT in the wake of the North London derby: "I was watching Ange Postecoglou and he must be feeling really alone on the pitch tonight. I think things are probably coming to the end for him. I think that something has to change. We can see the league, we can see the faces of the players tonight on the pitch and they look so miserable, nobody looks like themselves. As I said, I think something has to change at Spurs so I think he will get the sack."
Spurs do have a number of injury concerns with first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario out along with key centre-back pair Cristian Romero and Micky Van de Ven. Petit added: "Injuries are something very important to deal with but they have enough quality in the squad. Look at the players on the pitch, look at Son – he was amazing on the pitch for five years. Maddison this season – Maddison last year was such a great player, what has happened to him?
“Something is broken in this team and you can’t sack all of the players and so you have to make the easiest decision and that’s to sack the manager. I don’t like saying that and I feel for Postecoglou, but he deserves to be sacked because they’re going down game after game so change something.”
Postecoglou reaction to defeat
Asked how he can turn Spurs’ form around, Postecoglou said: "You've got no choice. There's no magic cure. You've got to get up tomorrow, work hard and go into Sunday (at Everton) and prepare to go into battle and turn around our fortunes and our season. There's nothing magical that's going to change it. There's always reasons for all these things to happen, but the reality is that our results and our form in the league has been nowhere near good enough. That needs to change."
Reflecting further on the game, he added: "I think that second goal is endemic of our whole first half. Irrespective of everything else, like I said, we just didn’t play anywhere near the identity I want us to be. We are an aggressive team with and without the ball, we have shown that. We showed that seven days ago against Liverpool. Tonight, especially in that first 45, we were way too passive and that’s not acceptable. When you do that, these kinds of things creep in. It was a disappointing second goal to concede as well, but it’s not like we were playing anywhere near the level we needed to. Like I said, second half was a little bit better and we certainly caused them a few more problems with and without the ball, but it wasn’t enough."