Tottenham’s Thomas Frank apologized to their fans for their 4-1 defeat against Arsenal. Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmovicario also admitted that they had no fight in facing their north London rivals. Spurs produced the lowest expected goals in any Premier League match this season. They registered 0.07 xG, which was lower than their previous record low of 0.12 at the start November when they lost 1-0 at home to Chelsea.
Spurs have suffered another embarrassing defeat in just 22 days. They are now ninth in the league table with only three wins in their last eleven games.
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Les Ferdinand, an ex-Spurs forward, called the meek loss at their local rivals’ home “embarrassing”. Frank was forced to apologize to the fans of the club. The Dane said to Sky Sports that it is “extremely painful”. The performance was poor and the exact opposite of our intentions when we arrived.
“We are sorry for this performance.
“No matter how short the team was, they were on top of it and we could not get out.
“They were stronger and we couldn’t escape those duels. We didn’t win many duels or second balls when it was long.”On that particular day, we had a bad performance and lost.
I’ve seen a great deal of fighting and character in the team [in the past] But one thing that we did not do very well was win enough duels.”We didn’t have enough wins in duels, whatever you want to call it.He added to his press conference after the match: “It would be fair to say that today’s performance was disappointing and unsatisfactory. I’m not going to hide from it.”I apologise for the fans, as I said. I think that it’s fair to point out where we come from. We were 17th last season, and are trying to create something. Today, however, didn’t appear to be anything.”Vicario: We didn’t fight
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