Coach Ange Postecoglou said he will be angry with Tottenham players when they return to the club after FIFA Days in October.
Tottenham will face West Ham in the earliest match of round 8 of the Premier League. They need a good result after losing to Brighton in the previous round. Postecoglou's side took a 2-0 lead at the Amex but somehow lost 2-3.
The Australian tactician gave a passionate post-match speech. He frankly criticized the players for showing complacency, thereby losing 3 points. Postecoglou called it the "worst failure" of his tenure at Tottenham and his second-half performance "un acceptable".
Postecoglou has yet to get over his unthinkable defeat to Brighton. In the context of the players returning to the national team, the 59-year-old "captain" has reconsidered everything.
"You never know if the international break is good or bad. Maybe it's good for the players, but I don't like sitting there and losing. There may be a trend to over-analyze everything. That's not a good thing.
The first half was unbelievable, but I didn't like the second half and the way we played. It's not the loss, it's the way I was uncomfortable. I sat there for 10 days, I was ready to explode when the players returned to the club and that was my solution," said Postecoglou.
The defeat to Brighton left Spurs Ninth in the Premier League with 14 points from seven games. They will face West Ham, who are brimming with confidence after a 4-1 win over Ipswich Town.
Postecoglou is under pressure, with Spurs having won just three Premier League games so far this season. And the Australian says he will not change his approach.
"What people want me to do is what other people do. I'm not going to do that. The reason I'm here now is because I didn't do what other people do.
I would not do anything differently because I always try to make decisions that I believe will be true to what we are trying to create. What I know is that people forget where they started. It becomes really blurred. I don't forget where they started. That is how I measure progress," Postecoglou added.
