{"id":513035,"date":"2026-03-02T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:47:12","slug":"tottenham-lacking-in-attack-midfield-defence-and-brain-says-igor-tudor-tottenham-hotspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513035\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham lacking in attack, midfield, defence and \u2018brain\u2019, says Igor Tudor | Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Igor Tudor described the situation Tottenham find themselves in as \u201camazing\u201d and suggested they have just three major problems as they fight relegation: the attack, the midfield and the defence. Spurs\u2019 2-1 defeat at Fulham<\/a> was their fourth in a row in the league and leaves them four points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot tell you anything new,\u201d said a downbeat Tudor. \u201cWe need to find the forces inside each of us. I said to the players: \u2018It\u2019s always what you\u2019re going to do, what you want to do with yourself,\u2019 you know? More personality, more wish to do before reacting, plenty of things \u2026 We are lacking when we attack, we lack the quality to score the goal. We are lacking in the middle to run and we are lacking behind to stay there to suffer and not concede the goal. So, an amazing situation. Amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insisting the 4-4-2 formation he selected was not the problem \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s not about systems at the moment\u201d \u2013 Tudor accused his players of lacking \u201cbrain\u201d. \u201cThey arrive before us,\u201d he said. \u201cThey predict and we are always late on everything. That\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was striking how deflated Tottenham\u2019s interim manager seemed compared with his relatively bullish demeanour after last week\u2019s 4-1 home defeat by Arsenal<\/a>. He spoke of \u201cbig problems\u201d at the club that ran beyond attitude or commitment, although it might have been different had Spurs not conceded after seven minutes, Harry Wilson volleying in \u2013 but only after Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez had got away with a slight push on Radu Dragusin that looked very similar to the contact for which Randal Kolo Muani had a goal ruled out last week.<\/p>\n

Tudor said he was too upset to speak to the referee, Thomas Bramall, about the incident. \u201cIt was so obvious,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t understand that even a small contact \u2013 a push with the hands when you didn\u2019t touch the ball, it\u2019s an easy way to get an advantage. It\u2019s ridiculous to not give the foul, because the consequences are so big. It\u2019s not a small foul in the middle of the pitch \u2013 it\u2019s a goal because he takes advantage not thinking about the football but about how to cheat. It\u2019s logic: he\u2019s cheating so it\u2019s a foul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marco Silva was understandably delighted with a win that lifts Fulham<\/a> into the top half. The Fulham manager said: \u201cThe amount of chances we created, the score doesn\u2019t reflect our superiority.\u201d He had particular praise for the centre-back Issa Diop, who was a late call-up after Joachim Andersen was ruled out with illness. \u201cHe was at home last night,\u201d Silva said, \u201cnot even in the hotel. But he\u2019s a top professional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Igor Tudor described the situation Tottenham find themselves in as \u201camazing\u201d and suggested they have just three major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-513035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}