Even if it means that Tottenham will not defeat Arsenal in the Premier League, Ange Postecoglou will “never understand” any Tottenham supporters who wish for their own club to lose. Tuesday’s game between Spurs and Manchester City might have a significant impact on the conclusion of the championship battle. Tottenham might edge their North London rivals Arsenal to finish ahead of reigning champions City if they win or draw with Pep Guardiola’s team.
The outcome of the championship match may change significantly after Tuesday’s match between Spurs and Manchester City. If Tottenham wins or draws with Pep Guardiola’s squad, they may surpass their North London rivals Arsenal to finish ahead of the defending champions, City.
“I recognise rivalry. With Celtic and Rangers in the previous few years, I was a part of one of the largest ones in the world,” the Spurs manager remarked. However, I have never understood and never will comprehend someone who wants to see their own team lose. That isn’t the purpose of sports. It’s not the aspect of the game that I adore.” Though he recognised that “people are allowed to feel the way they do,” Postecoglou feels that “100% of Spurs supporters” want his team to defeat City.
But according to the 58-year-old Australian, he has not “lived my life” and has instead taken “pleasure from other people’s misery”. “True success looks like trophies,” he continued. Everything else—bragging rights, anything else—has no bearing on anything at all, in my opinion. “What do you anticipate taking place? As a team, or as any team on the earth, what do you think we will accomplish? Will we not merely attempt to prevail? It’s a basic idea. I’m not too concerned about how that makes other people feel, nor do I really care.”
It’s readily apparent. Winning the game is our only remaining alternative. That is why we travel. Guardiola’s team has faced similar circumstances in the past, winning the championship by a single point in 2018–19 and 2021–22 after maintaining their composure at home. Both times, Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp forced City to play till the very end of the season.
Guardiola went on: “I believed that we would either win, win, win, or it will be over because of what had happened in the past with the manner we were playing against Liverpool. “I had the feeling to beat Arsenal is so difficult because they make very good things in all departments and are difficult to beat so if we have the chance for it to depend on us we have to use it.”