Ange Postecoglou believes Tottenham’s FA Cup defeat to Aston Villa offers his injury-hit squad the prospect to reset and end the 2024-25 marketing campaign strongly.
Postecoglou watched on as Tottenham had been crushed 2-1 at Villa Park on Sunday, with objectives in both half from Jacob Ramsey and Morgan Rogers doing the harm.
Having additionally misplaced within the fourth spherical final time period, Tottenham have been eradicated from the FA Cup previous to the fifth spherical in back-to-back seasons for the primary time since 2014-15.
It implies that Tottenham’s hopes of profitable a primary main trophy since 2008 now depends on the Europa League, having exited two cup competitions within the house of three days.
Postecoglou has not been helped by a lot of accidents all through the season, with the likes of Dominic Solanke, Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven all lacking on Sunday.
It was additionally confirmed earlier this week that defender Radu Dragusin would miss the rest of the season after he picked up an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage.
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— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) February 9, 2025
Tottenham return to Premier League motion subsequent Sunday towards fellow strugglers Manchester United, with each groups languishing within the backside half of the standings.
Regardless of their newest defeat, Postecoglou stated that his aspect’s exit from the competitors provides the gamers some respite after a troublesome few months on the pitch.
“Nothing actually modifications. Now we have a few weeks now the place we don’t have midweek video games,” Postecoglou stated.
“This group has finished an unbelievable job for 2 and a half months. I can’t reward them sufficient, enjoying twice per week since November.
“They’ll get the prospect to reset now and end the season sturdy.
“Europe continues to be crucial to us, we’re nonetheless in an amazing spot there, and we’ll hope to get some gamers again over the following two weeks.
“We’ll get gamers again, which is able to assist. We had 11 first-team gamers out in the present day.
“Take that out of any group for one recreation, and they’d wrestle – we’ve been doing that for 2 and a half months.
“The gamers are going on the market and giving every thing they will. It might be rather a lot higher if that they had some assist.”