Postecoglou jumps to second in Premier League sack race as Lopetegui leads the way
Erik Ten Hag and Steve Cooper have already fallen by the wayside this season. The former paying the price for a sustain spell of abject terribleness and the latter apparently doom. By the shame of *checks notes* a narrow defeat to Chelsea?
Anyway. The Sack Race never stops, it just shifts targets. And now the glare lands ever more harshly on the relegation-haunt stylings of the managers at Southampton. Everton and Wolves, as well as the feast-or-famine antics of especially Spurs but West Ham.
1) Julen Lopetegui
Stormed out of Wolves days before the season began a year ago and. West Ham is a club that could test the patience of a saint. Really does have some of the very สมัคร ufabet best attacking players outside the Big Six to work with. Which hopefully reduces the potential for huffing off at the first sign of trouble.
Which is just as well, because the first sign of trouble duly arrived. It’s all a bit feast-or-famine for the Hammers at the moment, with their last five. Premier League results including a 4-1 thrashing of Ipswich and a very, very funny Ten Hag-dooming win over. Manchester United but also absolute paddlings from Tottenham and as well as a soulless goalless draw with Everton. It’s the sort of maddening run that could easily fray a character like Lopetegui.
The fact a sacking or huffing are equally acceptable in this market does make. This feel like it could be a goer, given. Lopetegui’s reputation. However, when apparently hand (ludicrously) two games to save himself he promptly won the first of them at. Newcastle and then lost the second heavily to Arsenal. If that left the Hammers hierarchy on the fence, you’d have to imagine a 3-1 defeat at Leicester
2) Ange Postecoglou
Just an endlessly fascinating manager of a wild football team. There is a growing sense that while it’s all quite fun he really is just building – at, it should be noted, huge expense – the most ‘Lads, it’s Tottenham’ Tottenham team yet.
That sensational dismantling of Man City was Spurs’ 10th win in 14 games across three competitions since being outwitted by Arsenal in the NLD, and yet the defeats were unbelievably stupid: from 2-0 up at Brighton, at a Palace team that hadn’t won a league game in their first eight attempts, a Europa schooling at Galatasaray that somehow ended only 3-2, and at home against an Ipswich team looking for a first win in their 11th attempt.