Tottenham showed all the best and worst bits of Angeball in Arsenal defeat

Postecoglou's brand of attacking football has won him plenty of admirers this season but now he needs time to turn that into results. Click the sign-up box below to receive the newsletter every Monday morning this season for our verdict on all 20 Premier League clubs

Sometimes it can be valuable delving into history to find out what it can reveal about the present and even the future.Unbeaten in Postecoglou’s first 11 games in charge, leading the Premier League table playing a refreshing brand of ballsy attacking football, it had seemed as thoughtook over at Arsenal in December 2019 and his first 38 league games saw a return of 57 points.

A quick glance at the table shows Postecoglou has already accumulated 60 points with five games still remaining. The chance of catching and overtaking Aston Villa inis still alive — even a brutal final run of games, which includes playing away to Chelsea and Liverpool and with Manchester City visiting in May, features Burnley and Sheffield United, meaning Postecoglou is likely to surpass Klopp’s early Liverpool record.last summer.

Still, you can see bums lift off seats when they ping passes through the opposition like a pinball machine to spring attacks. You sensed the belief in the supporters, when they pulled two goals back in the second half, that they could find a third and dent Arsenal’s title chances, even though they failed to.

There was a time when you had to cover your eyes watching Arsenal pass out from the back in the early Arteta days, leading to mistakes that cost them many goals and plenty of matches. We even saw it again against Spurs — David Raya’s bewildering bad chipped pass straight to Romero, who controlled it with his chest before scoring Tottenham’s first.

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