Fuming Ange Postecoglou covers face with hands as he loses it over reporter’s question after Tottenham’s FA Cup KO
ANGE POSTECOGLOU was left with his head in his hands after being grilled about Tottenham's alarming form.
Spurs' season went from bad to worse last Sunday when they were dumped out of the FA Cup by Aston Villa.
The fourth-round exit came just three days after they were battered in the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final tie with Liverpool.
Postecoglou has shown signs that Spurs' woeful form is getting to him on several occasions this season and did so again when it was put to him that his troops aren't playing in his image.
After putting his head in his hands, the Aussie said: "I don't know how else to explain it.
"I don't know how else to explain it if you can't see that this team is just trying to play its hardest in the most extreme of circumstances.
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"Two and a half months of asking 18-year-olds and 17-year-olds and senior players, with no rest, to play Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday.
"I'll keep going for two-and-a-half months and if you think that is not at all a factor of how this team is performing then there's nothing else I can say.
"There's nothing else I can explain."
When asked if it's wise to stick with his current style of play, the 59-year-old added: "No, because they're tired mate.
"Do you think they can press like [we would]. If we hadn't played Thursday night and I hadn't rotated that team we wouldn't have been pressing aggressively today?
"Fair chance, unless you don't think they're human beings.
"Unless you're superhuman and you think no, after playing Liverpool on Thursday night they should be flying tonight. It doesn't happen. They're human beings.
"Why do you think Liverpool and others rotate 11 players? Why? There's a reason and I wish I could do the same.
"So you can bring a freshness to the team. Of course they're not playing anywhere near the levels that we want or expect, but that's not because they're not trying.
"It's because they can't. I think this group of players once we get the rest of the group in, will be an outstanding team.
"I have no doubt about that. Whether other people can't see that, that's of no interest to me.
"If you want to measure anything on what they're doing at the moment, other than the extreme situation they're dealing with then I think your analysis is skewed and it's not objective. That's my opinion.
Spurs will be back in action on Sunday afternoon, welcoming Manchester United to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.