Dejan Kulusevski suggests need for Tottenham to compromise attacking style

Tottenham prima Dejan Kulusevski has called connected Spurs to discuss their attacking principles and person much power successful games nether head Ange Postecoglou.

Spurs were thrashed 6-3 astatine location by Liverpool connected Sunday and Kulusevski accepted they could have adapted their plan up of facing the Premier League leaders amid a protect wounded crisis.

Postecoglou’s broadside were without first-choice defenders Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie, arsenic good arsenic goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, and made nary changes from Thursday’s 4-3 triumph complete Manchester United.

Postecoglou has travel successful for criticism for not adapting his attacking strategy during a engaged tally of games - pinch the Australian doubling down connected his principles - and Kulusevksi suggested Tottenham person to alteration their approach.

The Sweden international, who did not springiness up the conflict against Liverpool and has scored successful 5 successive games for Spurs, said: “You person to improve, you person to find ways.

“Maybe coming we should possibly fto them person the shot more, but you know, that’s not really we play. So we went out, we gave everything. It didn’t work, possibly we [will] study for the adjacent time.

“You person to deliberation astir really are we physically? Who’s playing? How galore games person we played successful the past week? Who are we playing? Have they rested for 1 week aliases something?

“You person to put everything successful because it is for illustration life. It’s not conscionable achromatic and white. It’s a batch of factors going into it.

“We person to study because we conceded six goals. I can’t beryllium present and opportunity that we’re doing thing perfectly, we’re not. We person to alteration a small spot for the better, ever effort to alteration for the better.”

Postecoglou accepted that Liverpool’s power levels were higher aft Spurs reached the Carabao Cup quarter-finals connected Thursday and had 1 little time to hole for the lucifer astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

But he besides fought pinch reporters and said he was increasing impatient astatine being asked the “same questions” as he insisted that wounded issues are to blasted for his side’s protect frailties.

“I person monolithic admiration for the efforts these players are putting successful for this nine astatine the moment,” Postecoglou said.

“We cognize what a difficult business it is and that’s not going to alteration successful the short term. We’ve conscionable sewage to push on.”

James Maddison rallied astir Tottenham’s depleted squad and insisted they will instrumentality together.

“To concede six goals astatine location evidently hurts,” Maddison told SpursPlay. “To negociate to people different 3 against arguably the champion squad successful the world astatine the minute, location is positives location but difficult to look at, astatine the minute.

“I americium proud of the lads who kept going. It tin beryllium very easy to beryllium backmost and not fto immoderate much chances aliases support a scoreline to a minimal, particularly erstwhile they get the fifth.

“To beryllium adjacent to the lads, they kept going, we scored different mates and we’ll support going and excavation in.

“We had a awesome night, a superb nighttime present connected Thursday and a really difficult 1 (against Liverpool). The bully and the bad, you’ve sewage to instrumentality together.”