Ange Postecoglou says Tottenham will play on the front foot against Arsenal

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Ange Postecoglou has promised Tottenham supporters they will take the game to Arsenal in Sundays derby fixture.Spurs have won four of their five Premier League matches under the Australian, but the biggest test of this bold new era in N17 will occur this weekend at a ground where victories have been notoriously hard to achieve.Tottenhams last league succe s at the Emirates was in 2010, although the most underwhelming aspect of recent displays at Arsenal has been the lack of attacking imagination with Postecoglous predece sors Antonio Conte, Nuno Espirito Santo and Jose Mourinho all favouring pragmatism in this match.There appears no chance of the current Spurs head coach employing a defensive approach and the 58-year-old is excited to watch how his young group cope in a fiery atmosphere against one of the divisions best teams.When I went into Champions League games with Celtic or went into World Cup games Rene Robert Jersey with Australia, people said I should have changed my approach and we got some pretty decent le sons along the way, but I just think thats the only way you can measure yourself, Postecoglou explained.How do you know if you want to be that kind of team? Thats the question. If you want to be a team that challenges, you know you have to play that way irrespective of the opponent.Theres no point not using a game like Sunday as a measure to see where were at.If we shy away from it, dont play our football, manage to get Mikko Rantanen Jersey a draw and survive the experience, what have we really learned? Apart from surviving 90 minutes of football? Nothing.The players already know thats what will be my me sage to them. Were going to go out and play our football.If were short, were short and we need to make it up. If we match them its great isnt it (because) we know we have a long way to go and weve already established ourselves and on the biggest occasions weve shown were prepared to play our football.Spurs have had a full week to prepare for the trip acro s north London, while Arsenal warmed up for Sunday with a 4-0 thrashing of PSV on Wednesday night.PSV tried to aggre sively pre s Mikel Artetas side and were picked off to devastating effect on the Gunners return to the Champions League.It was put to Postecoglou that Arsenal would prefer an open match, but the Tottenham bo s responded: Im not really bothered about what Arsenal want as a game. Im bothered about what we want as a game.Its about us challenging ourselves to be the football team we want to be and the kind of progre s we want to make is playing the football weve started playing. Its as simple as that.What the opposition may want or may not want becomes a moot point for us if we dont play our football. Theres always natural adjustments during a game because of what the opposition do.But weve started playing this way because its how I believe were going to be succe sful, Gabriel Landeskog Jersey not because Im trying to create something easy on the eye.Postecoglou acknowledged the inexperienced nature of his squad for this derby date with Guglielmo Vicario, Pedro Porro, Micky van de Ven, Destiny Udogie and James Maddison set to be involved in the fixture for the first time.Even Yves Bi souma and Pape Sarr have limited memories of playing for Tottenham against Arsenal but the ex-Celtic head coach says that all contributes towards Sunday being a crucial part of the groups journey.He added: This is the experiences I want the guys to have and for us to have as a group to help us grow. It is the only way you grow.You dont grow by literally being in the shade. You need to stick your head up and see the sun and allow yourself to grow even if it means at times that experience isnt a great one because you can grow from that.It is a challenge for all of the group and us, but irrespective it wont stop our real intent to become this kind of football team whatever the outcome.
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