Son brands Tottenham’s defeat to Fulham as ‘unacceptable’

Tottenham captain Son Heung-Min talked about the players wished to “look throughout the mirror” after an “unacceptable” 3-0 loss at Fulham solid doubt on their Premier League excessive 4 credentials on Saturday.

Victory would have put them ahead of Aston Villa into the assured Champions League berths nonetheless Spurs produced a limp present and failed to achieve in a league match for the first time this season.

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“It’s fairly disappointing and actually irritating. Everybody has to look throughout the mirror and say ‘it is my fault’,” Son talked about.

“It was not satisfactory. We didn’t put throughout the effort we’ve got now placed on this season. The effectivity, the angle was not satisfactory. All people desires an infinite wake-up title.”

The effectivity was the entire further stunning given Tottenham’s medical 4-0 win at Villa closing weekend.

“Throughout the Premier League for those who’re not ready you get punished,” the South Korea forward added. “Aston Villa are an incredible group, nonetheless so are Fulham. Should you’re not giving 100% you get punished. You don’t get three components freed from cost.

“That’s two steps backwards. We now should step forward. It is unacceptable, along with me it was unacceptable.

“We’re representing Premier League teams, we’re representing Tottenham. This was not close to what we’ve got now been doing this season. It’s fairly sad to have a look at this. The followers don’t deserve this. Dropping this was very sturdy.”

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou talked about he was considerably disillusioned collectively along with his group’s second half effectivity.

“To be truthful to the players, it’s the main time this yr the place I’ve felt, notably throughout the second half, that we merely didn’t… We’re throughout the place we’re because of every week we’ve got been truly, truly aggressive in every aspect of the game and even in our losses I’ve felt like we’ve got hit positive markers by the use of our endeavour and competitiveness and I believed that it was missing proper this second and that was disappointing,” Postecoglou talked about.