Could the sequence of spurs loss have hit Leeds again on Saturday?

After an impressive departure, Thomas Frank knows his first delicate period as a head coach of Tottenham Hotspur.

A series of three consecutive draws in the Premier League and in the Champions League is not terrible, especially since Frank is still in hand with a new team, and Tottenham’s ability to retaliate against deficits to save a point indicates resilience and determination that was not always obvious last season under Angel Postcoglou. However, Spurs can afford to be much more than a momentary blip if they want to achieve their ambitions to be real strength in elite competitions this season.

In a disturbing way, there is a strange oddity that Frank inherited the reign of PostCoglou which indicates that this short race without victory could be about to worsen.

Beginning with the 2-1 defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers in November 2023 and continuing to the home defeat 1-0 against Bournemouth in September, Tottenham lost seven consecutive games directly before the start of the international break. At one point, quirks like these deserve to be taken seriously, and we decided that Seven is the arbitrary threshold. SO, Athletics analyzed this section to explore why and how Tottenham always loses just before their players leave the whole world to play for their national teams.

With hindsight, the defeat of Molinine reported the end of the excellent departure of Postcoglou in northern London. The undefeated race for 10 Tottenham games to start the 2023-24 season had ended the match before in the 4-1 home defeat against Chelsea, but this match was like an aberration. After having opened the scoring, the red boxes for Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie before Chelsea takes the lead make the task almost impossible for the Spurs, although the insistence of Postocoglou on the maintenance of the high line is no longer seen in such a positive light.

However, Tottenham was completely outdated by the Wolves during the 2-1 defeat, after leading for most of the match thanks to the first goal of Brennan Johnson, before conceding twice in time. Postcoglou was without Udogy and Romero because of their red boxes, as well as Micky Van de Ven and James Maddison, which would both miss long periods to coincide with a collapse of the results. It was undoubtedly a weakened team, and perhaps the result was not a surprise for this reason, but it slowed down their momentum, with Tottenham becoming without victory for their next three games.

But if the result at Wolves can be explained, the following defeat of the section – their second in this seven game race – has very little sense. After stabilizing the ship and brought back a certain consistency after winter winter, the Spurs have headed for the last months of the season as a favorite to finish inside the Champions League positions. Another 2-1 defeat against the Wolves in February was a step back, but comfortable victories 3-1 and 4-0 against Crystal Palace and Aston Villa put the Spurs on the right track. This is what makes 3-0 defeat outside Fulham which followed even stranger – the first time that the Spurs had failed to score in the League under Postocoglou.

With the chance to go fourth, it was a performance below normal, one of the strangest of the postcoglou mandate. Aside from Van de Ven, who was absent due to an injury suffered in the villa match, it was largely the same side which went to Villa Park and won comfortably. It would not prove to be the end of Tottenham’s best four hopes (it would be the sequence of four consecutive defeats in April and May), but it would be just to say that the shape of the Spurs has never recovered properly after this point – in the 10 championship games according to this defeat, the Spurs won four times and that three were against the relegated teams.

Having finished fifth in the 2023-24 season, the Spurs began the following decent formal campaign, taking four points from their first two games-including a 4-0 home victory against Everton in their second match. However, losing 2-1 against Newcastle United the following week spent the three sequence. He marked the first time that Tottenham lost a match directly before the September international in the 2020s.

Then, after winning the following two games after the 1-0 defeat against Arsenal after the international break, Tottenham lost 3-2 in Brighton & Hove Albion. Before the crisis of winter injuries and a strong loss of form, a 3-2 defeat against Brighton may not seem catastrophic, but the Spurs had led 2-0 at half-time before collapsing after the break.

Dominic Solanke during the defeat of October 2024 in Brighton (Rob Newell / Getty Images)

Perhaps the worst result under the postcoglou occurred before the November break-a home defeat 2-1 against Ipswich Town. Despite the race, Tottenham has often had complete or almost full strength slides throughout this period, and the loss of Ipswich was no exception. Aside from Romero, who suffered an injury to the foot during the international break with Argentina, Postocoglou followed the result of Ipswich with a 4-0 victory against Manchester City with the same supplement of available players.

With PostCoglou prioritizing the Europa League, Tottenham’s 2-0 defeat in Fulham in March, their sixth in the section, was less surprised. It was their first in a 10 -game race, during which they won once (against relegated Southampton) and lost eight, with a well -beaten side in western London.

After continuing the race with a 1-0 defeat against Bournemouth at home – a performance where the team did not inspire in the Frank’s adaptation period at the helm – it is at the new head coach to prove that the race is a strange aberration on Saturday against Tricky Leeds United.

“I really hope, really that we will win tomorrow, so we don’t need to talk about it too much in the future,” said Frank at his Friday press conference for the Leeds match.

“It’s like a strange thing last year, and not only thinking of statistics. Last year in Brentford, we could not win away from our home the first six or seven months or more than half of the season, for any reason. Then we are having to treat ourselves as a game as a game where we can be extremely aware. About a good performance.

“I mentioned it to the players. I said you would most likely ask me, so be sure to win. ”

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