Even the official Premier League X account is mocking Tottenham who remain mired in a relegation battle following Sunday’s 2-1 defeat against Fulham.
Spurs missed the chance to place a long way between themselves and fellow strugglers West Ham and Nottingham Forest, who also slipped to defeats over the course of the weekend, and delivered one other insipid performance.
Igor Tudor’s side remain 4 points outside of the drop zone after they did not get better from two first half goals scored by Harry Wilson and Alex Iwobi.
Richarlison halved the deficit with greater than 25 minutes remaining, but Spurs rarely threatened an equaliser and were condemned to a thirteenth defeat of a miserable campaign.
After the sport, the Premier League’s official account appeared to please within the north London club’s continued struggles by posting a clip of goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario aimlessly hoofing a free-kick out for a goal kick with none of his teammates in sight.
The post, which has now been deleted, was accompanied by a caption which read ‘Just how the play was drawn up’ much to the consternation of Tottenham staff who, in response to the Day by day Mail, complained to Premier League staff.
Tudor, meanwhile, defended his tactical tweaks after a second successive London derby defeat, but promised to seek out a winning formula for his faltering group.
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Injury-hit Spurs are with no victory in 10 Premier League matches, which has equalled a club record set back within the 1993-94 campaign.
Tottenham were second-best for an hour at Craven Cottage and while a triple substitution by Tudor sparked a late rally, it was too little, too late. The Croatian had moved away from his favoured 3-4-2-1 system to a flat back-four formation against Fulham.
Pushed to clarify why he made that call, Tudor insisted: “It’s not about system. System just isn’t vital at this moment. The final thing that is significant is the system.”
Tottenham were without 10 players for this London derby with captain Cristian Romero still suspended and multiple key individuals like Destiny Udogie, Lucas Bergvall, Mohammed Kudus, James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski sidelined.
Pedro Porro and Kevin Danso returned from injury to feature at Fulham, but Spurs will not be set to get anyone back for Thursday’s crunch fixture at home to Crystal Palace.
At a time when Tottenham are low on options and wanting goals, the midweek return of Europa League hero Brennan Johnson, who was sold for £35million firstly of January, will probably be a painful reminder of the club’s poor winter transfer window business.
‘The situation was complicated because we understand how many players (are out),’ Tudor reflected.
‘Now the players are coming back. One thing is when you’ve got a whole team then you definitely can select. One situation is while you cannot select, , because you could select the standard to attain the goal.
‘You must have quality players to attain the goal otherwise you can not defend on a regular basis, but when you’re in a foul moment, you place the players, but then you definitely lack defending and running and winning the duels.
‘So, what to do? That’s the massive query in the long run to decide on what is true for this team. To search out a formula of what we would like to be and what we may be on this moment.
‘That’s very obscure, that’s the thing. To grasp because you’ve got the standard, but additionally football is a sport of running and duels.
‘I actually have a sensation that Fulham players were all the time running and even with the brain. They arrive before us, they predict and we’re all the time late on every thing. That’s the issue.’
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