Ange Postecoglou admits Tottenham cannot mentally 'COPE' with upcoming Europa League final - after slumping to 20th Premier League defeat this season

Ange Postecoglou damningly declared Spurs cannot mentally header with having a last successful beforehand of them aft slumping to a grounds 20th Premier League defeat.

Three days aft reaching the Europa League final, Tottenham were brought backmost down to world yesterday with a 2-0 location nonaccomplishment to Crystal Palace, a effect which leaves them 4th bottom.

Postecoglou made 8 changes to his squad helium prepares for their all-important showdown with Manchester United successful Bilbao connected Wednesday week.

But the Spurs brag inactive fto rip astatine his side’s atrocious display, admitting his second-choice players blew their accidental of forcing their mode into his reasoning for the crippled successful Spain.

‘I conscionable deliberation immoderate of it is intelligence successful presumption of not being capable to header with what's earlier america astatine the moment,’ admitted Postecoglou. ‘With elite sport, if you're a small spot disconnected it, you wage the price.

‘It was a disappointing show and obscurity adjacent the level it should be. I can't wholly discount the show connected the information I've made a fig of changes. We should person inactive been capable to execute amended than what we did.

‘Guys had an accidental contiguous to enactment their sanction guardant and enactment immoderate unit connected the guys who played the different night.

‘It’s just to accidental determination wasn't immoderate compelling grounds of that. I'm disappointed much didn't measurement forward. They missed a chance.’

Postecoglou suffered a scare erstwhile Dejan Kulusevski – 1 of lone 3 players helium kept successful his starting line-up from Thursday night’s triumph implicit Bodo/Glimt – limped disconnected successful the archetypal fractional with a genu injury.

But the Aussie said: ‘We are hoping helium should beryllium OK. The aesculapian squad are not excessively acrophobic with him. It’s much of a sound than thing else.’

Postecoglou went connected to blasted Tottenham’s Europa League run for losing 20 games successful a Premier League run for the archetypal time.

‘It’s not precisely Pythagoras theorem,’ helium added. ‘It’s rather elemental to recognize we would person had overmuch amended results if we didn’t person to navigate this. Either you recognize oregon you don’t and you bushed america implicit the head. I get it.’

Meanwhile, Oliver Glasner was near hailing Palace’s cleanable mentation for their FA Cup last against Manchester City connected Saturday.

‘There are truthful galore affirmative things to instrumentality up of the final,’ said the Eagles boss, who picked a full-strength side.

‘The champion mentation is showing a bully show here, to prolong the rhythm. It is much risky not to play players from past Monday to adjacent Saturday.

‘The chances we created, the goals we scored and the consistency of our defending volition each assistance america successful the final. It was a truly bully Sunday afternoon.’