Postecoglou tells players they ‘can’t accept’ Tottenham results… with only bottom four losing more

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou says he warned his players that their long list of defeats is “just not good enough” after their 15th league loss of the season at Fulham on Sunday.

Rodrigo Muniz’s 78th-minute strike and Ryan Sessegnon’s finish against his former club 10 minutes later lifted Fulham to eighth in the Premier League with victory over 13th-placed Tottenham, who remain five points behind Crystal Palace immediately above them.

“I don’t like losing,” Postecoglou told Spurs Play, speaking after a result that ensured Spurs have two more league defeats than any other club outside of the bottom four.

“We’ve lost too much this year. I’ve said to the boys that we can’t accept that – it’s just not good enough for a club like ours to lose as many games as we have this year. We need to address it.”

Dom reacts to today’s defeat at Fulham. pic.twitter.com/C1SPn3oG3U

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Fulham v Tottenham: Defeats go on for Spurs

Postecoglou had spoken of the difficulty of following up good performances in Europa League games on Thursdays with positive league results four days later.

Tottenham beat AZ Alkmaar 3-1 at home three days ago to reach the quarter-finals of the competition 3-2 on aggregate.

After a quiet first half containing precious few opportunities, Tottenham looked more likely to make the breakthrough at Fulham after the introductions of Lucas Bergvall and Son Heung-Min for Yves Bissouma and Brennan Johnson at the break.

Instead, it was a Fulham substitute, Muniz, who opened the scoring, rolling in his ninth goal of the season in all competitions after being teed up by Andreas Pereira.

Sessegnon, who played for Spurs for five years before rejoining Fulham in 2024, shrugged off Ben Davies and curled in a precise right-footed effort a minute after coming on to strengthen the Cottagers’ push for European qualification after Dominic Solanke had missed one of several second-half chances for Spurs.

350 Spurs appearances for Ben Davies 🤍

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Dominic Solanke: Tottenham players ‘want to win’

“It’s a difficult one to take,” said Solanke. “Coming from that game in the week, we wanted to build momentum and go on a streak.

“They managed to score first late in the game and that kind of killed our momentum. We pride ourselves on being a fit team who can run for 90 minutes, and a lot of the time that works in our favour and we can steamroller teams.

“We don’t want to be that team that’s great one day and bad another day. We want to try to find that consistency because we want to win every game.”

Spurs will aim to win for the first time in four league games on April 3 (8pm GMT), when they visit a Chelsea side who beat them 4-3 on December 8.