Ange Postecoglou clashes with reporter after Liverpool thrashing: ‘I’m going to stop answering these questions’

Ange Postecoglou was progressive successful a heated conflict pinch a BBC newsman arsenic the Tottenham Hotspur head insisted wounded issues are to blasted for his side’s protect frailties.

Spurs were thrashed 6-3 by Liverpool arsenic they fell into the bottommost half of the Premier League array contempt being the division’s apical scorers.

It continues a recent taxable of porous performances, pinch Postecoglou missing 4 of his first-choice backmost 5 amid a reliable run.

Goalkeeper Gugilelmo Vicario and centre-halves Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven missed the Liverpool defeat, while Destiny Udogie was only capable to make the chair arsenic Djed Spence continued astatine left-back.

And Postecoglou was not happy erstwhile asked if thing different than those injuries were down his side’s struggles.

“I’m conscionable going to extremity answering these questions,” Postecoglou said to BBC Sport. “If group can’t spot the evident I‘m not going to constituent it out.

“Make of it what you want, yes we’re conceding goals. If you want to discount the truth we’re missing a goalkeeper, 2 centre-backs and a left-back and that hasn’t coincided pinch what we’re doing… I don’t cognize what to opportunity anymore. I deliberation group dress up their mind successful their ain way. They either deliberation what I’m doing is bully aliases bad, and that’s fine.

“It’s reasonably significant, if you took retired Liverpool’s goalkeeper, 2 centre-backs and a left-back - aliases immoderate squad different than Liverpool, they’d find it reliable going arsenic well.”

Spurs person conceded 13 goals successful their past 3 location games successful each competitions, though did support a cleanable expanse against Southampton successful their past distant game.

They return connected high-flying Nottingham Forest astatine the City Ground connected Boxing Day.