{"id":830281,"date":"2026-08-30T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830281\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:02:10","slug":"tottenham-0-2-newcastle-roberto-de-zerbi-not-panicking-but-old-failings-haunt-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830281\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham 0-2 Newcastle: Roberto de Zerbi not panicking but old failings haunt Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> manager Roberto de Zerbi said he was &#8220;not angry&#8221; and there was &#8220;no panic&#8221; after his side&#8217;s second loss in two games left them bottom of the Premier League \u2013 but it was a depressingly familiar story for the club&#8217;s fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goals from Anthony Elanga and Yoane Wissa in a 10-minute second-half spell gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/crjw5316vlzgt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle a 2-0 victory,<\/a> with thousands of Spurs supporters heading for the exits early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have every reason to be annoyed as they have now seen only three home league wins from their past 23 matches at their superb stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seventeenth in the Premier League in 2024-25, 17th in 2025-26, only avoiding relegation on the final day, but this season was meant to be different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With more than \u00a3300m spent in the summer, Spurs fans were expecting a push to get back into Europe, having won the Europa League two seasons ago and been in the last 16 of the Champions League in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, in the Premier League it is played two, lost two, scored none, 20th out of 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can improve in the defensive phases but today was an unfair result,&#8221; said De Zerbi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Disappointed for the result because until the first goal we conceded, we played better than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/newcastle-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are disappointed for the result and [for] our fans. We are working to be a great team. When we become a team, we can change the story of the last two seasons for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham manager Roberto de Zerbi said he was &#8220;not angry&#8221; and there was &#8220;no panic&#8221; after his side&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-830281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}