Postecoglou defends Spurs players after another defeat: ‘I cannot ask for any more’ | OneFootball

Ange Postecoglou says his players are giving everything to turn Tottenham’s season around after suffering another defeat to Leicester City.

Goals from Jamie Vardy and Bilal El Khannouss handed the struggling Foxes victory after Richarlison had given Spurs the lead in the first half.

It was Tottenham’s sixth defeat in seven games in the Premier League, against a Leicester side which had lost their last seven in the league.

“Yeah, it hurts,” Postecoglou told Sky Sports after the game. “It hurts a lot.

“The players gave everything again. We are going to look at a lot of things, but in terms of effort I can’t ask any more of this group, things just didn’t go our way today.

“We created some good opportunities and unfortunately things just didn’t drop for us because not because the players weren’t trying and that’s the main thing.

“The players are giving everything they can. That is all we can ask for as a football club and me as a manager. They are trying their hardest and that is all anyone can ask for.

“You can analyse the goals, they were disappointing goals for us to concede, but I thought we had enough chances in the game to come out on top.

“When you’re in this situation, they are trying as hard as they can and sometimes that doesn’t give you the clarity in decision making. All you can ask is for people to do as much as they can and from my perspective I see a group of players that are giving as much as they can.

“I know it will turn. We’ll get some players back, we were short again today but in the next couple of weeks there’s some really important players coming back that I know will help this group.

“We’ve not hit a ceiling. We’ve been going like this for two months. They put in an enormous performance on Thursday to make sure we’re okay in Europe and they had to back it up today but there were probably at least two or three players that weren’t at 100%.”

The result means pressure continues to grow on Postecoglou and the Spurs boss conceded: “I’m a football manager and I get judged on results, that is the way of the world.

“The supporters are feeling it as well. It is not an atmosphere where it is easy at the moment. We need to break through that and try and give them something to get behind the team for. It wasn’t that long ago we beat Liverpool here and it was a great night here.”