Postecoglou reacts to Tottenham’s fixture pile-up after PL announce new Chelsea date

Ange Postecoglou is not too worried about Tottenham’s upcoming fixture pile-up and is more worried about his side having two weeks without a match.

Postecoglou has been consistent with his view throughout the season that he wants Tottenham to be playing regularly, once or twice a week. He believes that disruptions to the team’s flow have contributed to stuttering performances at times this year.

Following the rescheduling of Chelsea vs Tottenham, the Lilywhites now face somewhat of a fixture pile-up at the start of May. Spurs play Arsenal at home on April 28, followed by Chelsea away on May 2, and Liverpool away on May 5.

This also means that Tottenham have a two-week gap between playing Newcastle on April 13 and the North London Derby, something Postecoglou is clearly not looking forward to.

However, Ange did acknowledge that the problem is somewhat self-inflicted, with Tottenham not playing in the FA Cup or Europe at this point in the season.

Postecoglou wants Tottenham to be playing more regularly

He told Football London: “I guess my point has been all year and even that [run] will come off the back of us having a weekend off, 15 days without a game. I’ve said all along, that it is not about the games or the weekends off, we just haven’t had any fluency in our calendar.

“I keep saying some of it is self-inflicted because we’re not in Europe and haven’t had significant cup runs. But it just feels like now we’ll play a couple of games, midweek game, play at weekend, then play Newcastle and have another weekend off where we sit on our hands for two weeks.

“Then people will say, ‘You’ll be nice and fresh when you play three games in a week,’ but for me, we just haven’t had the rhyme this year. Apart from maybe the first 10 games of the year when we had the Carabao Cup and a game pretty consistently, it just seems we’ve had loads of stoppages.

“We knew that anyway going into this with the teams we’ve got left, Man City in FA Cup, Chelsea in FA Cup, we knew we’d get further disruptions. It is what it is. We’ve just got to deal with it and plan for it the best way we can.”

Spurs Web Opinion:

I get the impression that Postecoglou’s dream is to have two class players for every position and a fixture every few days throughout the season. After all, that’s what the big clubs in Europe do most years and Ange clearly wants to win big trophies with Spurs.

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