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Former top flight striker Chris Sutton feels that Tottenham Hotspur fans cannot deny that they are being served up with entertaining football by Ange Postecoglou.
The Australian boss has come in for familiar criticism about his side being too gung-ho and unable to close games out, while he continues to stick stubbornly to his approach.
Spurs led 2-0 against Brighton on the south coast at the weekend, but ended up losing the Premier League clash 3-2 as they collapsed.
Sutton accepts there were issues in the loss to Brighton and believes there was a real lack of aggression in the Spurs side.
He feels though that Tottenham fans cannot say that Postecoglou is not serving up an entertaining style, which is what they wanted when he took charge.
“Ange Postecoglou won’t change”, Sutton said on BBC Radio 5 live’s Monday Night Club.
“Tottenham fans were saying: ‘We don’t win trophies so we want to see entertainment.’ There isn’t one fan in the world that can dispute that they are getting entertainment week in, week out now. Maybe just not always for the better.
“I have mixed feelings about the weekend. There is a complete lack of aggression in the team.
“Were the Brighton goals avoidable? Yes.”
Spurs offloaded a host of fringe players over the course of the summer transfer window as Postecoglou continued to reshape the squad.
Given the exits, there may be room on the wage bill for the Australian to make additions when the January window swings open.
