Tottenham Hotspur could write a peculiar chapter of unwanted club historical past when they lumber to West Ham United for Sunday’s Premier League London derby.
Tottenham Hotspur will be at possibility of suffering an unwanted club first in the Premier League when they battle West Ham United in Sunday’s top-flight London derby.
After the highs of beating Bodo/Glimt 3-1 in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final, the outing to the London Stadium is arguably an pointless distraction for Ange Postecoglou‘s aspect.
Conceding plain on Thursday evening gave Bodo/Glimt a flicker of hope for the imminent return fixture, and Spurs will with out a doubt be prioritising success in the 2d leg in Scandinavia.
As far as the Premier League is anxious, Lilywhites are truly merely trying to salvage a shrimp bit pride on the terminate of an embarrassing marketing campaign, which could quiet terminate up being their worst-ever in the opponents since 1992.
Tottenham’s 5-1 beatdown by the hands of champions Liverpool last weekend was their Nineteenth top-flight defeat of the season, and they could now lose 20 games in one Premier League marketing campaign for the very first time.
Tottenham at possibility of phenomenal different of Premier League defeats
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The last time Spurs suffered as many as 20 losses in a top-flight season got here in the year before the Premier League’s formation in 1991-92, where they finished 15th in the table on the terminate of a 42-sport season.
On the opposite hand, Tottenham arrangement into the weekend one dwelling decrease than that in a humbling 16th dwelling in the Premier League standings, and they’re going to be leapfrogged by 17th-placed West Ham in the event that they lose to their London opponents.
Spurs’ contemporary travails on the London Stadium affect no longer derive for clear reading both, as they’ve failed to win any of their last four away games against the Irons, being held to a 1-1 draw last April.
Postecoglou’s aspect did rip West Ham to shreds in a 4-1 dwelling win in October, even supposing, and the Hammers bear already dropped 14 points from winning positions since Graham Potter took payment.
Every Potter and Postecoglou’s futures bear unsurprisingly been sizzling-button matters amid their aspect’s home predicament, but the latter has had players arrangement out in passionate give a increase to of him.
James Maddison reaffirmed his commitment to the Australian before the win over Bodo/Glimt, and before the outing to West Ham, it was Brennan Johnson‘s turn to soar to the defence of his boss.
Johnson insists Postecoglou quiet has the Tottenham dressing room
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Asked if Postecoglou quiet had the dressing room on his aspect, the Wales international spoke back: “For sure, that’s never been in question,” as quoted by The Replicate.
“Games devour Thursday confidently indicate that every one the men hear to everything that he says and on the terminate of the day, especially in the Europa League, the sport plans bear arrangement off completely as you moreover saw in Frankfurt.
“Hopefully we can do that again next week and get to the final. Momentum is such a big thing in football, we’re looking to get as much momentum going as we can before next week.”
Tottenham will be missing Son Heung-min, Radu Dragusin and unusual absentee Lucas Bergvall for the lumber to the London Stadium, as the latter was just just recently dominated out for the remainder of the season with an ankle injury.
In addition, neither Maddison nor Dominic Solanke are anticipated to be fit for the all-capital clash, as the English duo each sustained knocks in Thursday’s first-leg win.
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