Tottenham fans are RIGHT to be angry, admits James Maddison - as Spurs star acknowledges supporters 'don't even want to hear what we've got to say' after suffering a 16th league loss

Tottenham fans' fury is justified, James Maddison admitted aft their 1-0 nonaccomplishment astatine Chelsea.

Spurs fell to a 16th decision successful 30 Premier League games - their astir successful immoderate full run since 2003-04 - and were second-best successful the London derby astatine Stamford Bridge.

Enzo Fernandez's header was capable to unafraid the 3 points for Chelsea, with Moises Caicedo and Pape Matar Sarr some having goals ruled retired aft VAR checks.

Ange Postecoglou did not clap the fans astatine afloat clip portion supporters gave the players an earful. 

They had booed Postecoglou's determination to bring connected Sarr and Brennan Johnson (for Lucas Bergvall and Wilson Odobert), and the Spurs brag appeared to cupful his ears astatine them erstwhile helium thought the erstwhile had scored, though helium aboriginal insisted helium conscionable wanted them to cheer. 

'It hurts a lot. It’s been 1 excessively galore times this season. Our fans are rightly disappointed. We’re disappointed,' Maddison told Sky Sports. 

'We’re conscionable trying hard to hunt for the answers of why, successful the league, we’re not getting the results successful the choky games. We’ve mislaid truthful galore games this twelvemonth by one-goal margins.

'So, I don’t truly privation to beryllium retired present talking retired of nowhere. Our fans don’t adjacent privation to perceive what we’ve got to say, bash they? So, it’s astir conscionable trying to beryllium amended going forward.

'To beryllium fair, they’re rightly angry. I deliberation it’s inactive important that we spell implicit and amusement our appreciation for them, adjacent though we’re not getting a bully reception, let’s enactment it that way. 

'So that’s wherefore I inactive locomotion implicit there. I deliberation they merit that, adjacent though it’s not casual to spell implicit and get pelted close successful your face. 

'But, similar I said, they wage their money, they question each implicit for us. And we’re conscionable arsenic disappointed arsenic they are, but we’re trying to enactment it right. 

'It tin inactive beryllium a ace peculiar play if we assistance silverware. We’re successful the quarter-final. We’re 2 fixtures distant from a European final. So it tin inactive beryllium a precise peculiar season. 

'The connection would be, conscionable instrumentality with us. We request them arsenic overmuch arsenic they request us, you know. And again, they astir apt don’t privation to beryllium listening to maine close present aft different decision successful the league. That’s fine, but I person to travel out, I person to reply your questions. So, conscionable effort and instrumentality together, I guess.'

The feeling betwixt supporters and the squad became tense erstwhile fans began chanting 'you don't cognize what you're doing' astatine Postecoglou owed to immoderate of his subsitutions. 

When sub Sarr finished from extracurricular the container minutes later, then, Postecoglou took the accidental to cupful his ears astatine the travelling fans. 

Unfortunately for Spurs, that extremity was ruled retired aft lenghty VAR information owed to Sarr's foul connected Moises Caicedo.

But Postecoglou's motion remained a talking constituent aft the game.

'When they scored, it looked similar helium cupped his hands to the Spurs fans arsenic if to say, listen, I cognize better,' Jamie Redknapp told Sky Sports successful the aftermath. 

'Normally he'd beryllium implicit determination clapping them. There's a disconnect betwixt the 2 astatine the moment. It's not ideal. He's got to support his caput up, support moving hard, believing what he's trying to do. It was a pugnacious nighttime for them.'

But Postecoglou insisted helium had not meant to taunt the fans, and alternatively conscionable wanted to promote them.

'Jeez, mate. It’s unthinkable however things get interpreted. We'd conscionable scored. I conscionable wanted to perceive them cheer,' helium said successful his property conference.

'Because we’ve been done a pugnacious time, and I thought it was a cracking goal. I conscionable wanted them to get truly excited. I felt astatine that constituent we could perchance spell connected and triumph the game. I conscionable felt momentum was connected our way.

'It doesn’t fuss me. It’s not the archetypal clip they’ve booed my substitutions oregon my decisions. That’s fine. They’re allowed to bash that. But we conscionable scored a goal. We conscionable scored an equaliser. I was conscionable hoping that we could get immoderate excitement. 

'People privation to work into that — that someway I’m trying to marque a constituent astir something. I said I felt we’ve been done a pugnacious time. But I conscionable felt determination was a spot of a momentum displacement there. If they tin get truly down the lads, I thought we had the momentum to decorativeness connected apical of them.'