Ange Postecoglou aims dig at Ruben Amorim & Man Utd | OneFootball

Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou had no sympathy for the injury struggles his Manchester United counterpart Ruben Amorim is dealing with, instead pointing out that his own club's fitness issues lasted for two long months.

Postecoglou struck a largely jovial tone after watching his Spurs side earn a deserved 1-0 victory at home to United on Sunday afternoon, the club's first league win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium since the opening weekend of November.

Over the intervening three-and-a-half months, Tottenham were blighted with an unrelenting injury list. Those fitness woes have finally begun to ease and it was fitting that two of their returning players - goalscorer James Maddison and goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario - were among their best performers.

Manchester United are at the start of their own injury crisis. Amorim was forced to name eight teenage substitutes with a combined ten minutes of Premier League experience for the trip to Spurs, after ten first-team players were ruled out.

When Postecoglou was asked whether he could sympathise with United's struggles given Tottenham's recent misfortune, he didn't strike an entirely compassionate tone.

Manchester United had a very youthful bench on Sunday / Justin Setterfield/GettyImages

"If I check my office, I don't have any sympathy cards from other managers, so that hasn't happened," the Spurs boss sarcastically snapped. "I could see Ruben there, players out of position, kids on the bench. Well, welcome to my world.

"But that's for one game. Now do that for two months. Do that for two months," he repeated with extra emphasis. "Any club. Do that for two months. I thought Man Utd were good today, considering all that, and we had our days when we were good, we beat Liverpool in this spell. Do that for two months."

Amorim was too preoccupied with his own issues to worry about Postecoglou's barb. "I have a lot of problems," the United boss sighed to Sky Sports. "My job is so hard but I am here to continue my job to the next week with my beliefs and I will try to win again."

Defeat to Spurs leaves United mired in 15th place. Amorim's side have lost eight of their last 12 games, only better off than the division's bottom two (Leicester and Southampton) over the same period.