Tottenham make Ange Postecoglou sack decision after 12th Premier League defeat | OneFootball

Tottenham Hotspur have no immediate plans to replace Ange Postecoglou as manager, multiple reports have stated.

Postecoglou watched on glumly from the touchline as Everton tore Tottenham apart in the first half of their Premier League encounter on Sunday. The Toffees, who have just rehired David Moyes for a second spell in charge, were 3-0 up and cruising by half-time at Goodison Park as Spurs' switch to playing three at the back spectacularly backfired.

Reverting to a traditional back four helped matters in the second half, as goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison at least made the scoreline respectable, but Spurs couldn't find an equaliser and instead slipped to a 12th Premier League defeat of the season.

Pressure on social media has been mounting on Postecoglou, who has appeared spiky in recent interviews and press conferences, but football.london were first to report that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy does not plan to sack the 59-year-old anytime soon.

Rumours of board meetings to discuss Postecoglou's future are also said to be wide of the mark, though there's an acceptance that results do need to improve despite the club being decimated by numerous injuries.

Key defenders Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven have played a combined 1,752 minutes of Premier League football from a possible 3,960 minutes (had the duo both played every minute of the campaign) this season which equates to just 44%.

Solanke added to Tottenham's injury problems after hurting his knee in training / Justin Setterfield/GettyImages

First-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario has also missed Spurs' last ten Premier League games after fracturing a bone in his foot during Spurs' emphatic 4-0 win over Manchester City in November - the club have only won since and that was against bottom of the table Southampton.

Destiny Udogie, Yves Bissouma, Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner, Wilson Odobert and Dominic Solanke were also injured for the trip to Everton - the latter picking up a knee issue iin midweek to add to Spurs' woes - and each one of those would likely have been in the matchday squad were they fit.

"This is not about me, but what is about me right now is I have the responsibility of the group of players I do have, to try and get us through this, and that's what I've got to focus on," Postecoglou told reporters in the aftermath of the defeat.

"For me to focus on anything else is abstaining myself from the responsibility I have. I'm just determined to get us out of this. The club's doing its best to...more about helping the players than helping me because they're the ones we're asking some massive jobs of 18-year-olds.

"We had a 17-year-old out there trying to win games of football for us. And others who are just playing week on week, so, you know it's more about getting the players help rather than me help."

Spurs' rotten run of results has dropped them to 15th in the Premier League table, far closer to the relegation zone than they are to their pre-season target of the top four. They do, however, have the best goal difference in the bottom half by some margin - Spurs' +10 figure a wild contrast to that of West Ham, who sit a place above them in the table but with a -16 goal difference.