Tottenham have been discovered wanting in a lacklustre first-half efficiency towards Chelsea and Ange Postecoglou’s frustrations turned to anger on the touchline, with the Spurs boss seen laying into Pape Matar Sarr and Cristian Romero after his aspect fell behind.
After back-to-back Premier League defeats by the hands of Newcastle and Arsenal, Postecoglou could have been determined for a response from his gamers at Stamford Bridge, but it surely was nowhere to be seen within the opening 45 minutes.
Chelsea – additionally looking for a response after three video games with out victory – have been a lot the higher group earlier than the midway stage in west London and the stress instructed within the twenty fourth minute.
Trevoh Chalobah – beginning his second recreation in succession – discovered the again of the web with a robust header previous Guglielmo Vicario and the objective was finally given after referee Robert Jones’ lengthy session with VAR.
Ten minutes later, an enraged Postecoglou could possibly be heard barking orders from the sting of his technical space earlier than Sky Sports activities’ cameras captured the Australian utterly shedding it with Sarr and Romero, giving the pair the complete hairdryer remedy.
‘Cease passing it f***ing backwards,’ Postecoglou appeared to yell earlier than ordering Sarr and Romero press with better depth.
Manchester United legend Gary Neville, offering co-commentary for Sky Sports activities, appeared lower than stunned by Postecoglou given the guests had been ‘nowhere close to it’ towards their London rivals.
‘He’s having a proper go at Sarr, he’s having a proper go at Romero. He has snapped, Ange Postecoglou,’ Neville mentioned.
‘The soccer that you’d affiliate along with his group has simply not occurred.
‘They’re nowhere close to it in possession, Tottenham Hotspur.’
Former England midfielder Karen Carney, in the meantime, who had been sat simply behind Postecoglou on the time of his match of rage, mentioned she had by no means seen the supervisor so emotional.
‘Offended Ange! Truthfully, I’ve by no means seen him so indignant and animated,’ she mentioned whereas analysing Tottenham’s poor first-half show.
‘They performed into midfield and saved giving it away and it truly is about [Brennan] Johnson and Son [Heung-min] they usually missed it.
‘They performed into that, they lose possession they usually give away this free-kick which results in Chalobah’s objective.’
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