Ange Postecoglou's to-do list to get Tottenham firing again in the Premier League

Ange Postecoglou will be working his Tottenham players hard through a fortnight of training on the Hotspur Way pitches as he looks to fix the issues that led to the defeat to Wolves.

Spurs fell to only their second defeat in their past 10 Premier League matches with the Australian unhappy with the lack of aggression and creativity from his team in front of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium crowd in the 2-1 loss. Tottenham remain in fifth place in the table, two points behind Aston Villa and now face a weekend off because of Chelsea's Carabao Cup appearance meaning that league game has to be moved.

With Villa at home to Nottingham Forest this coming weekend and sixth-placed Manchester United hosting Fulham, Spurs could be left needing to play catch-up with a vital three points when they return to action against a Crystal Palace team set to have a new manager in Oliver Glasner later this month after Roy Hodgson stepped down from his role on Monday.

Here are five things Postecoglou will be looking at over the next fortnight to ensure his team returns with a bang for that game.

It's an age-old issue at Spurs that at a certain time in the season the aggressive pressing across the team becomes more infrequent as does the dynamism of the attacking movement, even when there's a lack of fixtures or a big enough squad to rotate and keep people fresh.

There's even less of a reason for it to happen this time around, especially with much of the team having had spells out and with so long between games at the moment. The Postecoglou system relies on the aggressive nature of the team winning the ball back all over the pitch and without that you get games like the one against Wolves, with plenty of possession but very little drive and dynamism