Tottenham Hotspur survived a scare against Manchester United in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, ultimately securing a 4-3 victory. Despite leading comfortably, Tottenham conceded two goals due to goalkeeper errors, allowing Manchester United back into the game. Manager Ange Postecoglou defended his attacking style despite the near-collapse.
Tottenham Hotspur almost threw away their League Cup semi-final berth in bizarre fashion against Manchester United on Thursday but manager Ange Postecoglou bristled at suggestions he should tone down his side's entertaining style. Leading 3-0 at home against a lacklustre United side after 54 minutes, the tie should have been done and dusted.
Yet Tottenham contrived to gift United two goals - both the result of horrible mistakes by keeper Fraser Forster - and breathed a huge sigh of relief as they edged a 4-3 victory with Dominic Solanke twice on target, Dejan Kulusevski scoring once and Son Heung-min netting directly from a corner. For a while it looked as though Tottenham could repeat what happened in their last home game against Chelsea when they led 2-0 but ended up collapsing to a 4-3 loss. Had that happened, the pressure would have piled up on Postecoglou, who steadfastly sticks to his attacking principles whatever the circumstances, even to the extent of asking reserve keeper Forster, a player not comfortable playing out from the back, to play short passes. The Australian appeared ready for the line of questioning when interviewed after the match by Sky Sports. 'I like the whole game. Are you not entertained? I know the studio is probably having a meltdown over my lack of tactics,' Postecoglou quipped.'I really liked how we played tonight, obviously those moments tainted it a bit and that has happened this season before and it doesn't help our consistency, but the mentality of the boys... I love it.' Tottenham are arguably the most entertaining team in the Premier League, scoring 36 goals in 16 games. But their risk-taking style has worn down the patience even of fans brought up on the club's motto 'to dare is to do
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