Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou, like many others before him, has promised to’scare the life’ out of Arsenal ahead of the highly anticipated north London derby.
Arsenal and Tottenham clash on Sunday, in a game eagerly awaited by fans of both clubs as a chance to lay down a marker for bragging rights in the season ahead.
Both teams are in fine form, boasting an undefeated streak in the league and accumulating 13 points from five matches.
Ahead of the match, Ange Postecoglou, the 7th Tottenham Hotspur manager to take charge of the club since Mikel Arteta was appointed manager at Arsenal, has announced his ambition to ‘scare the life’ out of Arsenal in his first North London derby.
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Asked about copying another manager’s style, Postecoglou said, “I spent a week at City when I first got the Yokohama job. I observed training and you could see then how passionate Mikel was about the game.
“We’re not close. I’m 58, he’s whatever. I’ve had 26 years [in management], he’s five years into it. I’m not sure how he’s got a great head of hair! He’s a lot fitter than I am. I don’t know, mate, there’s not a lot of threads I can join between us,” he added.
“Even in the way his team plays. Yes, he does have a very attacking philosophy but it’s different from mine and that’s the beauty of the game,” Postecoglou continued.
“If you’re an artist and you see a Picasso, yeah, you can copy it, but it’s not going to be a Picasso, is it? It’s the same with football,” he explained.
“In terms of the way we play, we’re not changing, mate. We’ll go out and scare the life out of them,” Postecoglou warned.
“What have we really learned if we avoid it, don’t play our football, get a draw, and survive the experience?” Besides surviving 90 minutes of football? Nothing. “We’re going out there and play football,” he continued.
Following Arsenal’s recent 4-0 hammering of PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Wednesday night, the match becomes much more exciting.
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