“Being brutally honest, Arsenal are very lucky to have finished the season second and Arsene needs to buy some players over the summer to get anywhere near Spurs”.
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A draw against relegated Newcastle would have been enough to secure a second-place behind Leicester but they slumped to a 5-1 loss, to allow Arsenal to finish ahead of them in the table.
The Argentine coach described the match as the low point of his managerial career, while Kane said the result showed the team still needed to improve. We can see the problem was that we are not ready to compete and we don’t have enough quality to play with the ball.
“But in hindsight, you have to look at the bigger picture, or try to look at the bigger picture”. We have to stay positive and be proud!
While Carragher accepts that finishing behind their London rivals will be tough to accept, the former Liverpool defender is adamant that Spurs had the better season.
Spurs were pushing Leicester for the Premier League title until late April, when their campaign came off the rails.
“I apologise to our families, the families who have suffered behind us, it is hard now to arrive home and explain what has happened here”.
“I’m very disappointed; it was my worse game as a manager”, he told Sky Sports.
His side showed what they are capable of as two goals from Georginio Wijnaldum, the second a penalty, and others from Aleksandar Mitrovic, who was later sent off, Rolando Aarons and Daryl Janmaat sealed a comfortable win to see them finish two points adrift of safety. I have to say thank you because the fans have been wonderful, I told the players thank you very much because they were working so hard in these 10 games, it was pity in the end we couldn’t stay up.
In a freaky season in English football, one that may never be repeated again as long as Premier League fans live, Tottenham diehards will reflect upon a fabulous 10 months when their young side made real strides forward to qualify for the Champions League.
Pochettino threatened to make changes for next season and axe players who had let him down, as he issued an apology for their “terrible” final day nightmare.
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“It’s my worst day as a manager”. It’s just a shame the way it ended, ‘ he said. We spoke weeks before about never giving up, we need to learn and improve our mentality.
