Tottenham supervisor Antonio Conte has attacked his gamers and the membership’s possession in a unprecedented rant after Spurs threw away a 3-1 lead at Southampton on Saturday.
Conte’s facet led 3-1 with 16 minutes remaining however have been pegged again late on and needed to accept a 3-3 draw towards the Premier League’s backside membership as James Ward-Prowse scored from the spot in added time.
“I believe it is higher to enter the issue, we aren’t a workforce,” Conte stated after the sport. “We’re 11 gamers that go into the pitch. I see egocentric gamers, gamers that do not need to assist one another and do not put their coronary heart.”
And in remarks which is not going to impress his bosses, he added: “They’re used to it right here. They do not play for one thing vital.
“You solely do that. Excuses for the gamers!” 😡An EXTRAORDINARY rant from a really sad Antonio Conte ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Uy2MGveYXLMarch 18, 2023
“They do not need to play underneath strain. They do not need to play underneath stress. Tottenham’s story is that this. 20 years there’s the proprietor and so they by no means gained one thing. Why?”
Spurs missed the possibility to maneuver as much as third place and are solely two factors forward of Newcastle in fifth, having performed two extra matches than the Magpies.
“Now there are 10 video games to go and somebody thinks we will combat with this perspective, with this spirit, for what the seventh, eight place? What? I’m not used to preventing for this. It is each one’s accountability,” Conte stated.
“We play to make our followers pleased with us. It’s important to have need. The hearth in your eyes. If in case you have this you do not have this you do not exit within the FA Cup. Right here we’re used to for a very long time.
“The membership has the accountability for the switch market, the coach has the accountability. However the gamers, the place are the gamers? I see solely 11 gamers that play for themselves.”
