{"id":39797,"date":"2024-12-31T02:07:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39797"},"modified":"2024-12-31T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:07:29","slug":"postecoglou-tottenham-still-in-the-difficult-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/postecoglou-tottenham-still-in-the-difficult-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecoglou: Tottenham Still in the &#8220;Difficult Phase&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou remains confident in his team&#8217;s capabilities despite continued struggles in the Premier League, as they dropped points again on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tottenham drew 2-2 with Wolverhampton Wanderers after conceding a late goal, while also losing Destiny Udogie to injury, adding to an already long list of absentees.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The London side will be missing 10 players when they face Newcastle United next Sunday, with Rodrigo Bentancur suspended due to yellow card accumulation after receiving a booking in the previous match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking to British media outlet PA, Postecoglou said: &#8220;We\u2019re still in a difficult phase, but I trust that when we have a full squad again at some point, we\u2019ll be able to deliver consistently high-level performances.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He continued: &#8220;This season, we\u2019ve shown that we can beat any team, and we still have an opportunity to get back on track, but that\u2019s not where our focus is right now.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Australian manager added: &#8220;I can clearly see the effort my players are putting in. If we had been at our best, we would\u2019ve scored a third or even a fourth goal to secure the win.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Postecoglou also highlighted the importance of giving his players a mental and physical break: &#8220;We\u2019ve planned to give the players two days off to recover mentally and physically, especially as, for the first time in a while, we don\u2019t have two matches in a week.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He concluded: &#8220;We\u2019ve played a lot of games in the past four or five weeks, which has been exhausting for the players. It will be good to allow them some time to reset.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou remains confident in his team&#8217;s capabilities despite continued struggles in the Premier League, as they dropped points again on Sunday. Tottenham drew 2-2 with Wolverhampton Wanderers after conceding a late goal, while also losing Destiny Udogie to injury, adding to an already long list of absentees. The London side will be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39798,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797\/revisions\/39798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}