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Former MLS star Alejandro Moreno is of the opinion that Tottenham Hotspur defend like a team playing Sunday league football.
Tottenham are going through a bad patch of form and on Thursday they were held to a 1-1 draw against Rangers in the Europa League.
Ange Postecoglou has been criticised several times this season for Spurs’ defensive structure and the Tottenham boss is yet to find a solution for the issue.
Moreno claims that Tottenham have no defensive structure at all and added that they do not know how to organise themselves to keep the opposition away from the ball.
He thinks that Postecoglou’s team defend like a Sunday league outfit, depending on their fastest man on the defence to clear the ball.
When discussing Spurs’ woes, Moreno said on ESPN: “This is a team that are so, so bad in terms of their structure defensively.
“In fact, when I say structure, they don’t have any structure defensively; they really don’t.
“When you think about a Sunday league game, guys that went out Saturday night and they have to defend on Sunday, that is how they recover defensively and you are depending on the fast guy, ‘Van de Ven will get there’, that is how they defend.
“It is desperate defending; it is chasing the ball all over the place and they don’t really have the structure to get the ball away from other teams by being organised.
“There is no organisation at Spurs, and until they figure that out and apparently this is not the way Postecoglou wants to defend or wants to play, then we will continue to see performances that really end up being losses because at some point this game will demand from you that you defend and defend well and they just don’t do it enough.”
At the weekend, Tottenham will travel to St. Mary’s to lock horns against relegation-threatened Southampton in the hope of securing their first win in their last six matches.
