Danny Murphy highlighted one major flaw in Tottenham Hotspur’s game, which ended up costing them dearly against Crystal Palace.
Tottenham suffered yet another defeat in the Premier League this season as they were beaten 2-0 at home by Crystal Palace.
Ange Postecoglou fielded a heavily rotated Spurs team as he made eight changes from his Europa League-winning team against Bodo/Glimt last week.
But whilst Spurs supporters have a Europa League final to look forward to, they remain frustrated at yet another poor result and performance.
Ange Postecoglou set Tottenham up vs Crystal Palace with ‘no defensive plan’
Danny Murphy has slammed Tottenham Hotspur’s defensive set-up against Crystal Palace as Ange Postecoglou’s team suffered a 20th league defeat of the season.
The former Spurs midfielder believes the hosts had ‘no defensive plan’ and suggested that the Australian manager did ‘not set up a plan in training before the game to stop Palace’.
When discussing several of Palace’s best chances, Murphy told BBC MOTD: “Tottenham, the back four is all over the place, Spence gets caught tucked in occupying Sarr and then Tel’s too late to get back in. But there’s no defensive plan – they’re just off the cuff. Spence is tracking back Mateta here, he doesn’t even see Munoz and Davies isn’t talking to him.
“Spence has followed Sarr all the way in – he’s not looked once left to see where Munoz is. This is just a tactical thing, they’re outnumbered, they’re not communicating and they’ve not set up a plan in training before the game to stop Palace – even though we know how they’re going to play.”
Speaking about Palace’s first goal, Murphy added: “Spence jumps out, this time you’ve got your holding midfielder, Bentancur, playing at left wing back trying to track Munoz – the most dynamic wing back in the league – Tottenham were absolutely all over the place.”
Tottenham finally need to make firm move for Eberechi Eze
Eberechi Eze showed Tottenham what they have been missing out on as the forward netted twice against the North London club.
Tottenham have been keen on Eze since his time at QPR, but have never firmed up their interest enough to make a move for the 27-year-old.
Eze couldn’t help but smile when a Tottenham fan asked him to join prior to the game and Sunday’s clash felt very much like an audition.
TBR Football revealed last month that Eze has told Palace he is ready to leave in the summer and now is the time for Spurs to bring him to North London.
