How Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham can save their faltering season

Tottenham Hotspur lost ground in the race for a top-four finish this weekend with a surprise 2-1 defeat at home to Wolves.

Spurs suffered their first Premier League loss of 2024 but such a result had been on the cards for a few weeks with a series of deeply flawed performances.

Now that Tottenham have finally received their comeuppance, Ange Postecoglou is facing scrutiny over his style and he now has the task of finding a solution to this recent rut.

«We've got to keep working hard, it's not a quick fix, it's where we are as a team at the moment,» Postecoglou said post-match on Saturday. «We're a good side who work hard every week but we're not anywhere near the level we want to be. It's up to me to get us up to that level.»

So how does Postecoglou go about retooling Tottenham before their next match on March 2?

When 'Ange-ball' is in full flow, it's amazing to watch. During the first stretch of the season when Tottenham went unbeaten for three months, Yves Bissouma's control and composure made Postecoglou's vision a reality, breaking up play effortlessly and angelically gliding through midfield battles.

However, the Mali international has not been the same since picking up a rather daft red card away at Luton Town in early October, picking up a second yellow card for a needless dive. Since then, Bissouma has lost that intelligent edge and become more of a liability when in possession, while he also picked up another red card at Nottingham Forest in December.

Rodrigo Bentancur's two returns from differing injuries have coincided with at least an understandable lack of sharpness — the club did warn he would not be fully sharp until the 2024/25 season after an ACL rupture — but even his concentration has been called into