Football
Ange Postecoglou in difficult position with little to gain as Tottenham look to avoid Southampton banana skin
Hosts heavy favourites against sorry Saints – but they were against Leicester and Ipswich too
Tottenham’s home game against Southampton on Sunday is a potential banana skin with no obvious upsides for Ange Postecoglou’s struggling team.
Postecoglou has billed the game as a valuable chance for Spurs to build momentum ahead of the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final tie against Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday — on which their season and probably his job depend — but, Saints are such a sorry outfit that even thrashing them is unlikely to significantly change the mood music in north London.
Facing Southampton simply has to be considered an outlier in this season’s Premier League, so it feels like there is relatively little for Spurs to gain on Sunday.
