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Ange Postecoglou says Tottenham\u2019s players look \u2018lost\u2019 under Igor Tudor (TNT Sports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ange Postecoglou has urged Igor Tudor to instil \u2018belief\u2019 in his Tottenham players ahead of their Premier League match against Liverpool this Sunday.<\/p>\n

Spurs lost their fourth game under Tudor on Tuesday night as they were beaten 5-2 by Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.<\/p>\n

Diego Simeone\u2019s side were three ahead after just 15 minutes with goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky at fault for two of the goals before he was substituted two minutes later.<\/p>\n

Spurs are just a point clear of the relegation zone ahead of their trip to Liverpool this weekend and with Tudor expected to take charge of the game at Anfield, Postecoglou believes the Croatian needs to improve the confidence in his squad.<\/p>\n

Asked if he is unsurprised to see Spurs\u2019 current situation, Postecoglou told TNT Sports on Wednesday night: \u2018No, I wouldn\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n

\u2018I am still invested in the club because I have an attachment to those players, I worked with them for two years, the last time I had an interaction with the fans was 200,000 of them in the streets of London.<\/p>\n

\u2018It pains me to see it, it definitely looks like the players are fairly lost at the moment. There\u2019s obvious pressure there and it\u2019s a real difficult time.<\/p>\n

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\u2018It all kind of manifested himself in what happened last night, it was almost a worst-case scenario, you\u2019re playing a side away from home, Atletico Madrid, who never drop to a performance level [below], they\u2019re always at a really strong level and it was just a horror start for them.\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked what the players need now, Postecoglou replied: \u2018It\u2019s hard for me to say and me speaking about it tends to skew the argument. I think what\u2019s really important right now is there is no way anybody objectively would say these players are performing at the levels they are capable of. They\u2019ve just got to try to ease the pressure on them somehow.<\/p>\n

\u2018I thought last night was a tremendous opportunity for them, they\u2019ve done really well in the Champions League, they\u2019re on a good side of the draw, Atletico away is tough but you\u2019ve still got to take them back to Tottenham, it just felt like the pressure was there.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m sure they trained on the pitch the night before but the amount of times they were slipping over, I think that\u2019s still pressure, there\u2019s just a real desperation in everything you do, mentally you\u2019re desperate. Then that manifests itself in a physical way, you\u2019re lunging for things, you\u2019re rushing things.<\/p>\n

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Igor Tudor has lost all four games in charge of Tottenham (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018It\u2019s hard for me to comment from the outside but, for me, it\u2019s about instilling some belief, show them the kind of players they are, not that they can be, that they are, what they\u2019ve already shown.\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked if the expectation of the fans compared to the financial backing from the club needs to be addressed, Postecoglou said: \u2018That\u2019s a broader argument but the reality of it is they\u2019ve got to deal with it now, that\u2019s the most important thing.<\/p>\n

\u2018The football club, I said it a couple of weeks ago, wasn\u2019t behaving to me like a big football club in terms of the kind of players it was attracting.<\/p>\n

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\u2018But it is a big football club, we saw that last year, there was a couple of hundred thousand people in London going nuts there and I felt it, how big a club it is.<\/p>\n

\u2018But in the Premier League it\u2019s a slippery slope once you take your eye off the ball with certain things.<\/p>\n

\u2018But all that is not important right now. What\u2019s important now is where they are in the league, they need to maintain their Premier League status which is obviously paramount to what they want to build.<\/p>\n

\u2018Those kind of questions you kind of go, \u2018okay, we want some real direction here\u2019. I think it\u2019s pretty clear what Tottenham fans want \u2013 they want the team to play a certain way, they want success, every team wants success.\u2019<\/p>\n

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