Ange Postecoglou is facing unwanted history on Thursday.
Defeat at Chelsea, live on Sky Sports, would see him become the first Tottenham boss to lose his first four league games against the Blues.
It would be yet another damaging stat for the under-pressure Australian.
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The 2-0 loss at Fulham before the international break saw Tottenham fall to a 15th league defeat of the season – their joint-most at this stage of a Premier League campaign (29 games). It leaves them 14th in the table and in danger of their lowest-ever Premier League finish (15th in 1994).
“Ange is clinging on to his job right now,” ex-Spurs midfielder Jamie O’Hara told Sky Sports News in the wake of the Fulham defeat.
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Jamie O’Hara believes Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou’s style has been ‘found out’ and he is ‘clinging on’ to his job
A day after the loss at Craven Cottage, a report in The Daily Telegraph claimed Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola and Fulham’s Marco Silva are among the leading candidates to replace Postecoglou if Spurs decide to make a managerial change in the summer.
The next day, ex-Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino told Sky Sports News he wants to “one day” return to the club and has a “very good relationship” with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.
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Mauricio Pochettino tells Sky Sports how he can see himself back at Tottenham one day and revealed that he still stays in touch with chairman Daniel Levy
The warning lights have never been brighter for Postecoglou. So is his only fix to win the Europa League and end Spurs’ 17-year trophy drought?
“I think it is, I really do,” O’Hara said. “Tottenham fans are booing them off the park [at Fulham]. If you take Europa League out of it for a second, if you’re looking at the Premier League table and you’re looking at the performances and the output from the players, it’s not good enough.
“[Postecoglou] is riding on the Europa League now. All the eggs are in that basket. If we get knocked out, he’s going to lose his job.”
Poor London derby record and lack of first-half threat
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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Fulham’s match against Tottenham in the Premier League
Before that crunch Europa League quarter-final against Eintracht Frankfurt, Postecoglou has a chance to not only pick up his first points against Chelsea, but to improve on Spurs’ miserable London derby record this season.
No side has earned fewer points in Premier League London derbies this term than Tottenham, who have lost five of nine such games this campaign (W3 D1).
