Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou didn’t preserve again along with his objection of forward Timo Werner after a 1-1 draw at Rangers within the Europa League.
Spurs gotten right here in Scotland with out quite a lot of first-team players and regarded established for a third successive loss when Hamza Igamane terminated the hosts forward after 47 minutes to help a rowdy atmosphere at Ibrox go up a notch.
Ex-Celtic supervisor Postecoglou had really at the moment made his preliminary step at half-time with the intro of Dejan Kulusevski for Werner after an error-strewn show display.
Kulusevski would in the end save an element for Tottenham when he gunned proper into the decrease edge within the seventy fifth min after being established by fellow alternative Dominic Solanke.
An element for the Premier League apparel maintains them 9 within the group stage of the opponents and in a stable placement to guard a top-eight coating, which makes straight entry with to the last-16, nevertheless whereas Postecoglou known as it an “important point,” he was aggravated with RB Leipzig loanee Werner.
“Yeah, just tactical. He wasn’t playing anywhere near the level he should,” Postecoglou claimed when inquired about Werner being taken out on the break.
“It’s not acceptable to me. I mentioned that to Timo. He is a senior worldwide, a German worldwide, with the second we’re in proper now, it’s not like we’ve received many choices, I want everybody to at the least be going on the market and attempting to present the perfect of themselves.
“Yeah, his efficiency within the first half wasn’t acceptable.
“We simply want everybody, together with him, to be contributing as a result of we don’t have the depth to go away folks out in the event that they carry out poorly. We want them to play their half and particularly the senior guys.
“When I am asking younger guys to do massive jobs, I expect a level of performance from the senior guys and today wasn’t that.”
Injuries in safety implied Postecoglou made use of versatile 18-year-old Archie Gray at centre-back, nevertheless the summer season season rent generated a significantly ensured show display and fellow younger grownup Lucas Bergvall stood out with a second-half cameo off the bench.
Postecoglou claimed of Gray: “He’s 18, massive expertise for him and I believed he dealt with the expertise very well.
“As an 18-year-old, in his first yr at this degree, to play in unfamiliar positions in such massive video games, it’s excellent what he’s doing.
“I believed Lucas was wonderful when he got here on. He was as a consequence of begin tonight however wasn’t feeling nicely at the moment, a bit beneath the climate, so we needed to preserve him on the bench, however that’s a constructive for us.
“Those two, as 18-year-olds, to already be contributing and experiencing these things will be of enormous benefit to us.”
Spurs wanted Fraser Forster to be at his superb to go away Glasgow with an element after the earlier Celtic stopper made a tackle block to reject Cyriel Dessers late on, which makes sure the English membership stay in a stable placement to safe a top-eight berth with fits versus Hoffenheim and Elfsborg in January.
“We weren’t anywhere near our best I think it is fair to say, but at the same time we’re in a period of games where we’re grinding through it with a fairly depleted squad and asking players to get up week in, week out,” Postecoglou acknowledged.
“I thought we worked our way back into the game well and the subs coming on made a difference. We scored a good goal, had a couple of other moments, but in the end, a great save by Frase gets us, in the context of where we are in Europe, an important point.”
