Tottenham Hotspur lost their seventh Premier League game of the season on Sunday
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Former Premier League and England defender Jamie Carragher believes that Ange Postecoglou will not last much longer at Tottenham Hotspur if he refuses to become more pragmatic on occasion.
Spurs threw away a 2-0 lead at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday afternoon as they lost 4-3 to London rivals Chelsea. Postecoglou has been criticised during his Tottenham tenure for being too one-dimensional with his style of play and it is something that Carragher feels he needs to change moving forward.
The ex-Liverpool defender did not call for a complete change of style but suggested that the state or nature of a game should result in a different way of playing in order to protect a lead. Sunday’s loss was not the first time this season that Tottenham had thrown a 2-0 lead away as they were also beaten 3-2 at Brighton after leading by two goals.
Speaking on Sky Sports after Sunday’s game, Carragher said: "Ange said how well they played. I can't imagine any Liverpool manager I played for - and we conceded four in a game - would say in the interview we played well. If you play this way you'll get the result like at Manchester City but you'd also get results like this one where you're 2-0 up. I've never got my head around managers saying we play a 'certain way and we will never change' - I think it started with Pep Guardiola at Barcelona.
"This idea that wherever they play, they will play their way. But that was the best team I've ever seen. Pep Guardiola then had to change his Man City team who were winning the leagues every season, putting centre-backs at full-back. This idea that you can't change is alien to me. The game-state dictates how you play, not all the time but if you go away to a tough away ground you shouldn't play the same way as you do against a team at the bottom.
"There's this idea of playing a pure game and the Tottenham fans singing 'We've got our Tottenham back' but you won't win anything, you won't challenge. I wake up every morning hoping the sun is shining, so I can put some shorts and a T-shirt on but if it's raining, you put your coat on. You can't have this idea about playing one way, it won't work. If it doesn't change, he won't be here next season."