Tottenham: Frustrated Postecoglou lauds dominant Spurs after 'disappointing' Forest defeat

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·21 aprile 2025

Tottenham: Frustrated Postecoglou lauds dominant Spurs after 'disappointing' Forest defeat

The loss was indicative of Spurs’ struggles this season

Ange Postecoglou said that his Tottenham side were ‘outstanding’ in their 1-2 loss to Nottingham Forest on Monday night.

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Spurs started slowly in the match, falling to a two-goal deficit after a quarter of an hour following goals from Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood, who had another early effort ruled out by VAR.

For the remainder of the match, Tottenham were comfortably the better side, creating chances aplenty but failing to finish one until Richarlison headed home with three minutes of regular time remaining. It was scant consolation for Postecoglou.

Speaking at full-time, the Australian said: “We couldn't dominate anymore than we did or create more chances, but we just conceded poor goals and gave ourselves a mountain to climb.

“[I am] really disappointed with the goals we conceded, and the most frustrating thing is that outside of that, I thought our football was outstanding.

“Its only after we conceded that we woke up and started playing our football, but I just said we can’t give teams two-goal head starts.”

Porro assisted Richarlison’s late consolation goal

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Postecoglou was right to be frustrated by the goals. Anderson’s opener took a heavy deflection to evade Vicario, but the keeper was at fault for the second as Wood leapt higher than the Italian to head home.

The loss is Tottenham’s 18th of the Premier League season, leaving them sat 16th in the table and facing a worst finish of the Premier League era. Postecoglou felt the performance was in line with some of Spurs’ earlier losses.

He continued: “It's a game we should never lose, another we have let slip.

“I don’t think we deserved to lose that game. We had enough chances and our football was good.

“That has been our problem all year. It is not about our football but about maintaining focus and concentration throughout the whole game. There are too many games this year where we have lost in that manner and that is why we are in the position we are.”

He added that he had planned for Dejan Kulusevski, Micky van de Ven, Wilson Odobert, and Christian Romero to be substituted early as he looks to conserve fitness ahead of next weekend’s trip to Anfield. It was a small solace that Spurs came out of the match with no fresh injuries.

“Everyone got through it OK, I guess,” he said.