SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP)– The possibilities of Tottenham going back to the Champions League next season are beginning to look a bit slimmer after the group discarded a two-goal lead at last-place Southampton on Saturday.
The possibilities of Antonio Conte going back to coach the group next season are looking even slimmer after the Italian tore into his gamers for being “self-centered” and knocked the club for not having a winning mindset.
After James Ward Prowse’s injury-time charge made Southampton a 3-3 attract the Premier League, a despondent Conte reacted by questioning his gamers’ mindset and implicated them of not playing as a cumulative.
” I’m not utilized to see this kind of circumstance,” Conte stated. “I see a great deal of self-centered gamers. And I do not see a group.”
Conte ended up being referred to as a serial winner after leading both Juventus and Inter Milan to the Serie A title and Chelsea to the Premier League crown. He is set to complete a 2nd season at Tottenham without a prize after the group went out of the Champions League and FA Cup just recently. And he might even see the group lose out on a Champions League area as its grip on 4th location is significantly unstable.
Tottenham has actually not won a prize in any competitors considering that the 2008 League Cup and Conte– in remarks that will just sustain speculation that he wishes to leave the club– implicated the Tottenham gamers and hierarchy of being content with that.
” I see self-centered gamers, I see gamers that do not wish to assist each other and do not put their heart (in),” Conte informed his post-game press conference. “Why? Since they are utilized to it here, they are utilized to it. They do not bet something essential, yeah. They do not wish to play under pressure, they do not wish to play under tension. It is simple in this method. Tottenham’s story is this. Twenty years there is the (very same) owner and they never ever won something.”
Tottenham would have provisionally climbed up above Manchester United into 3rd with a win, however is now simply 2 points ahead of fifth-place Newcastle, which has actually played 2 less video games.
Tottenham had actually taken a 3-1 lead after Pedro Porro and Ivan Perisic netted their very first objectives for the club and Harry Kane scored his 23 rd of the project.
Southampton had actually just scored two times in its previous 5 league looks however the hosts revealed the very same battle that saw them just recently take points off Chelsea and Manchester United to come back and enhance their survival hopes.
Ward-Prowse’s late charge, after Pape Sarr had actually fouled Ainsley Maitland-Niles in the location, contributed to second-half efforts by Che Adams and Theo Walcott to make Saints a point.
For Southampton, the point might show important in an ever-tightening fight to prevent transfer. The club stayed bottom of the standings, however just 4 points different it from Crystal Palace in 12 th location.
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