Sky Sports activities’ Jamie Redknapp believes Tottenham’s 1-0 house defeat to Chelsea was “one of the worst performances” by Spurs, as boss Thomas Frank performed down being snubbed by a few of his gamers at full-time after they had been booed off.
A toothless Tottenham suffered a fifth straight defeat to London rivals Chelsea as they mustered only one shot on the right track in a dismal defeat.
A sorry Spurs had been loudly booed off by their very own followers as Joao Pedro’s first-half winner deepened Spurs’ house woes, with Frank’s facet struggling a twelfth loss of their final 19 league video games on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Footage has since emerged on social media at full-time exhibiting defenders Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence ignoring Frank’s request to applaud the followers.
On the incident, Frank mentioned at his post-match press convention: “All of the gamers are, in fact, annoyed. They want to do properly, to win, to carry out properly, so I perceive that.
“I think it’s a part which is difficult, of course, to be consistent in good times and bad times, that’s why I went around to the fans, as I did. It’s more fun when you win, I can tell you that.”
Requested whether or not their behaviour was acceptable, he replied: “I perceive why you ask the query, however I believe that is the, how are you going to say, one of many small points.
“We have Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence doing everything they can. I think they have performed very well so far this season.
“Everyone seems to be annoyed. We do issues otherwise, so I do not suppose it is a huge downside.”
Frank on record-low xG: It hurts massively
The loss to Chelsea noticed Tottenham report the bottom anticipated objectives (0.05xG) by a Premier League workforce this season and their lowest on report since Opta began amassing Premier League xG information in 2012/13.
Questioned concerning the record-low xG, Frank mentioned: “I would say that, of course, hurts massively.
“I’ve by no means been accountable for a workforce that created that little in a single recreation, by no means. In order that in fact, I’ll look into what we are able to do to make it higher, however I believe that is one factor.
“I think everything is a little bit linked. And today we didn’t hit the level.”
The dreadful efficiency irked the house help, who confirmed their frustration all through.
Requested whether or not he understood the boos, Frank responded: “Yes, 100 per cent. I think we all sense the frustration and the emotions that’s part of football. It’s extremely painful.
“That is a part of the job to face you guys now and reply the excellent questions, whenever you simply are burning inside and you want to seek out options, watch the sport again, see what went unsuitable, all that. However I believe it is about making an attempt to remain calm generally.
“I think Chelsea were good. We were definitely second best. We performed badly. I think we lacked energy and intensity. That freshness, we didn’t have that.
“Then I believe the excessive stress they got here with, I do not suppose we solved it properly sufficient, though we labored on it, in order that we have to maintain engaged on.
“Our high pressure, we lacked a little bit in the beginning until we got on top of it. Then they went up 1-0, and then we were chasing, and that was just a bad circle – chasing, lagging, intensity, energy, bad decisions.”
Redknapp: Tottenham had been so poor
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Spurs boss Thomas Frank says he understands his house followers booing after their facet’s loss 1-0 loss to London rivals Chelsea.
Tottenham didn’t have a shot on the right track within the second half, and so they created zero huge probabilities within the defeat to the Blues.
The show led ex-Spurs midfielder Redknapp to label it one in all their worst ever.
He instructed Sky Sports activities: “It didn’t look hard [to play against Spurs] tonight. That was as easy as it gets. If it were a boxing match, they’d have stopped it.
“Tottenham had been so poor. I truly thought they’d have an actual go tonight, however that was one of many worst performances I’ve seen from Tottenham.
“They have won three home games in the last year, and I would probably put that as No 1 because if you flip it to some of the other games, like last season when they lost 4-3, at least they had a real go.
“They acquired after groups, it may have gone both manner, and it was thrilling.
“That today, they never laid a glove on Chelsea. They had no idea to play out, they had no understanding and they were missing challenges. They made it so easy for Chelsea.”
