Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou blasted his joiners for being too “compliant” after they were humiliated by Liverpool in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-finals. The Lilywhites held a 1-0 aggregate direct from the first leg but were blown away by their opponents at Anfield.
Cody Gakpo levelled the tie with the discneglecting goal of the evening 11 minutes before half time, before Mohamed Salah lashed a penalty into the top corner fair after the interval.
Dominic Szoboszlai put the tie to bed with a third strike after 75 minutes, with Virgil van Dijk inserting a fourth five minutes procrastinateedr.
And after the suit, Postecoglou telderly BBC Radio 5 Live: “Liverpool were too excellent for us tonight, we didn’t repartner get into the game in the way we wanted to. We permited them to get regulate of it pretty timely.
It’s a very difficult place to come at the best of times but when we permit them to get into that rhythm, we didn’t repartner give ourselves an opportunity to get into the game.
“I thought we were way too compliant in terms of our football both with and without the ball. There’s a lesson in there for us. We can’t cowardly away from joining the football we want to join. That gives us the best chance of success and we didn’t do that tonight.
“We’ve given up a excellent opportunity tonight and we can’t cowardly away from that. We were in a excellent position to get to a final. You can always drop stupidinutive but the manner in which we fell stupidinutive, it’s not repartner who we want to be so it’s disnominateing.”
And after being asked whether there was anyone who could pick Postecoglou up from the low, the Australian exclaimed: “
“No one needs to pick me up. We should be repartner encouraged after tonight to come out on Sunday [aacquirest Manchester United] and put in a carry outance which is more mirrorive of who we are.”
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