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Ange Postecoglou was not having anything said against his Tottenham Hotspur team after that performance at Old Trafford.
He quickly grew agitated with one radio interview when it was suggested that Spurs could have made more of their dominance. The reason for his anger? It's because the Australian has never been as proud of his team as he was on Sunday evening and he wasn't going to hear a bad word said about them.
For even in the face of the ridiculous challenges thrown at Postecoglou and his players in their first six months together this week has reached new depths.
The Tottenham boss could not even enjoy getting early January signings through the door in the shape of Timo Werner and Radu Dragusin, because in the same week he lost Ben Davies, Giovani Lo Celso and Dane Scarlett to new muscle injuries, Ryan Sessegnon picked up a short-term «niggle» in Postecoglou's words after his return following 11 months out, but even that wasn't the end of the problems.
For fate was not done with his team yet as illness began to spread throughout the squad. Dejan Kulusevski copped the worst of it. The Swede felt temporarily better and attempted to train on Saturday only to worsen as the day went on and by Sunday he was not able to play any part.
Postecoglou told football.london that both Oliver Skipp and Destiny Udogie were among «four or five players» in the team who had also fallen ill, yet the duo ended up pushing themselves to the limit and beyond, Skipp playing 84 minutes and Udogie the full 95 minutes. For some within Tottenham it would have brought back bad memories of the famous 'Lasagne-gate' incident all those years ago.
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