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• Nickname: Spurs, The Lilywhites
• Short name: Spurs
• Founded: 5 September 1882; 141 years ago, as Hotspur F.C
• Ground: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• Current League position:15th (Played: 32 Won: 11 Lost: 17 Drawn: 4)

Most recent result:

• Wolves 4-2 Spurs (Rayan Ait-Nuri, Djed Spence (OG), Jorgen Strand Larsen &. Matheus Cunha; Mathys Tel & Richarlison)

Next Premier League fixture: ( Monday, 21 April 2025)

• Spurs v Nottingham Forest : Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: 21:00- Live on Showmax Premier League

Latest news:

If Ange Postecoglou is on the hunt for leaks at Tottenham Hotspur, his search should start with those running through his midfield and defence that have been left unattended to place his job in jeopardy.
Postecoglou revealed on Friday that there was a mole inside his club filtering out classified information into the public domain.
But what is no secret is Spurs are a soft touch for opponents with even the slightest hint of threat.
It was proved again in a 4-2 defeat by Wolves at Molineux – a masterclass in every reason why Postecoglou’s side have lost 17 Premier League games out of 32, more than in any other season, and why they languish down in 15th place.
Their afternoon was encapsulated by Djed Spence’s farcical own goal, as keeper Guglielmo Vicario palmed the ball against the backtracking full-back and into the net, to give Wolves a two-goal lead in a dispiriting first half.
Postecoglou’s expression of thunder turned to one of complete disbelief when he went back to the bench to review the moment on a monitor. It was an X-rated horror show.
It is a flaw the Australian has simply been unable to cure, undermining all his fine attacking principles that prompted such optimism and hope in the early months of his reign.
Since Postecoglou took over before the 2023-24 campaign, only West Ham and Sheffield United (seven each) have scored more Premier League own goals than the six by Spurs.
And only the current bottom three clubs – Southampton (26), Leicester (22) and Ipswich (19) – have lost more league games than their 17 this season.
It is the most defeats Spurs have suffered in a league campaign since 2003-04 (19) when they finished 14th.
There does have to be some context applied to this defeat, though.
Postecoglou’s priorities, perfectly understandably, lie with the Europa League quarter-final second leg away to Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday after a 1-1 draw in the first meeting at home.
It explained the six changes that saw Son Heung-min, Micky van de Ven, Pedro Porro and Destiny Udogie kept back, while Rodrigo Bentancur came on as substitute. The big bonus was the return of Dejan Kulusevski after injury for a 15-minute run-out.
There is also a worrying downside to that context too.
If there is any repeat of the carelessness and general incompetence that scarred this display, then Spurs’ trophy hopes will be over for another season and so, in all probability, will be Postecoglou’s spell in charge.
What cannot be explained away is the slapdash manner and lack of basic organisation that allowed rejuvenated Wolves to record a fourth straight top-flight success for the first time since January 1972.
It started inside two minutes, when keeper Vicario’s tame punch from a corner found Wolves defender Rayan Ait-Nouri unmarked from the set-piece on the edge of the area. He accepted the invitation to score.
The second was another calamity, Vicario again culpable when he turned home striker Marshall Munetsi’s tame header on to Spence when he could have held on, the ball rebounded back into his own goal.
And even when Mathys Tel offered hope just before the hour with his second league goal in successive games, Cristian Romero flouted his status as a World Cup winner with a shocking piece of defending. The Argentina centre-back was robbed and beaten by Ait-Nouri, who crossed for Jorgen Strand Larsen to score with ease, and for a fourth successive game.
It went on.
Spurs inflicted more of their own wounds after Richarlison thought he had set up a tense finale with five minutes left.
Lucas Bergvall, instrumental in Spurs’ first goal, then coughed up possession too easily in an instant, leaving Matheus Cunha to race clear and score just a minute later.

Summer signings:

• Dominic Solanke
• Archie Gray
• Wilson Odebert
• Lucas Bergvall
• Kevin Danso
• Matthys Tel

Spurs XI

Manager: Ange Postecoglou

Ange Postecoglou became head coach of Tottenham Hotspur ahead of the 2023/24 season.

The 57-year-old is the first Australian to take charge of a Premier League club, having joined Spurs after two successful seasons with Celtic, with whom he won five major trophies, including back-to-back Scottish Premiership titles and League Cups.

Born in Greece, Postecoglou moved to Australia at the age of five. He became a footballer, playing for South Melbourne and earning four caps for the Australian national team. He has enjoyed a 27-year coaching career.

Before Celtic, he was head coach of Japanese team Yokohama F Marinos, winning a league title. Postecoglou was in charge of the Australian national men’s team for four years, a period in which he led them to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, as well as winning the Asia Cup. In 2011, while coach of Brisbane Roar, Postecoglou’s team made Australian sporting history, becoming the first team to go 36 consecutive A-League matches unbeaten.

During his first season as Spurs’ head coach, the Australian made history after winning the Barclays Premier League Manager of the Month award three times in a row.

Goalkeepers

• Guglielmo Vicario
• Fraser Forster
• Brandon Austin
• Alfie Whiteman

Defenders

• Cristian Romero
• Micky van de Ven
• Radu Drăgușin
• Ben Davies
• Ashley Phillips
• Destiny Udogie
• Sergio Reguilón
• Pedro Porro
• Djed Spence

Midfield

• Yves Bissouma
• Pape Matar Sarr
• Rodrigo Bentancur
• Archie Gray
• Giovani Lo Celso
• James Maddison
• Lucas Bergvall
• Alfie Devine
• Heung-min Son
• Timo Werner
• Manor Solomon
• Wilson Odobert
• Dejan Kulusevski
• Brennan Johnson

Forwards

• Dominic Solanke
• Richarlison

Read more about Tottenham Hotspur:

Spurs can turn things around” says former player Bongani Khumalo: https://stories.showmax.com/za/spurs-can-turn-things-around-says-bongani-khumalo

The Big Interview: Dejan Kulusevski for Showmax Premier League : https://stories.showmax.com/za/the-big-interview-dejan-kulusevski

Maddison on the intense rivalry between Spurs and Arsenal: https://stories.showmax.com/za/maddison-on-the-intense-rivalry-between-spurs-and-arsenal

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