Postecoglou says Spurs ‘don’t normally’ make the individual mistakes that cost them in defeat to Wolves | OneFootball

Ange Postecoglou insists it is “unusual” for his Spurs side to make the kind of individual mistakes that they did against Wolves in their 4-2 defeat.

Tottenham suffered a 17th league defeat of the season at Molineux and remain 15th in the Premier League table.

Rayan Ait-Nouri gave Wolves an early lead before Djed Spence’s own goal saw Spurs head in at the break two goals down.

Mathys Tel halved the deficit before Cristian Romero’s lapse in concentration gifted Ait-Nouri the chance to pick out Jorgen Strand Larsen for Wolves’ third.

But after Richarlison had again got Spurs back into the game with a close-range finish, Lucas Bergvall gave away possession cheaply to substitute Matheus Cunha, who raced through on goal to add a fourth.

Postecoglou pinpointed individual errors as the reason for defeat but says this is not the norm for his side.

“It was a funny game because I thought for the most part our football was decent,” he said.

“I thought with the changes we’ve made, we controlled large parts of it and were always a bit of a threat going forward.

“We didn’t really give them too much but we then gave them some pretty poor goals and that made it awfully difficult to get an outcome today.

“We made some individual errors today which is a bit unusual for us, it’s fair to say, and they all happened in one game and we were punished for them.”

Postecoglou also defended his players, including Romero and Bergvall, pointing out that they were not deliberate mistakes.

“It’s not like they’re doing it on purpose,” he said.

“I think those two in particular are pretty reliable in those sort of situations. Today was just sort of a collection of events that were unusual and that made it really difficult to get an outcome.

“It’s unusual for us to give goals away like that but I guess that’s what happens and it made it difficult for us.

“It’s not like the players are doing it on purpose. I’d be more frustrated if it was something from a tactical perspective or an organisation perspective.

“They don’t mean to do it. Lucas and Romero are two fantastic players and the important thing now is that they recover and focus on the next game.”