Spurs have scored seven goals in six home league games this season, while only Burnley have had fewer shots on target than their 18.<\/p>\n
Frank’s midfield selections have come under fire for being too defensive. Remarkably, Spurs have made four throughballs this season. Leaders Arsenal have made 43.<\/p>\n
“When you look at the make-up of their team, the midfield isn’t particularly creative,” Murphy told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“It feels like none of their frontline are playing with any confidence. They look a bit lightweight in the front area of the pitch.<\/p>\n
“Away from home, that doesn’t matter as much, because they can be more pragmatic – look for the set-plays, play on the counter and be hard to beat – and they don’t have the expectation of the 60,000 home supporters to go after teams and really try to win games.<\/p>\n
“That makes a difference to players. Away from home, you can kind of do it at your own pace and it is OK for you to be without the ball.<\/p>\n
“The games we’ve seen Tottenham do well in away from home have actually been comfortable at times for them – their win at Everton was a good example of that.<\/p>\n
“But that lack of cohesion and rhythm in the front three, where things have changed so much – and even that little tweak in midfield where sometimes it’s a 10, sometimes it’s three midfielders – it all looks a little bit higgledy-piggledy.<\/p>\n
“It means Spurs can look a bit too safe at home, with no-one playing with any belief or confidence to get on the ball.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spurs have scored seven goals in six home league games this season, while only Burnley have had fewer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-289544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}