Ange Postecoglou addresses Tottenham position as pressure ramps up after Everton defeat | OneFootball

Spurs head coach facing more questions over his future after wretched run continues at Goodison Park

Ange Postecoglou insists that he cannot be concerned with his own position at Tottenham while he still has responsibility for addressing the club's slump.

Spurs’ wretched run of Premier League form continued on Sunday as they fell to a 12th defeat of the season already against struggling Everton, going in at half-time 3-0 down at Goodison Park before a late rally eventually saw them lose 3-2.

Tottenham finished the game just eight points clear of the relegation zone ahead of Ipswich's meeting with Manchester City, leaving Postecoglou under mounting pressure to address their dismal league form.

They face Hoffenheim in Germany in the Europa League on Thursday night and then host 19th-placed Leicester, who have lost seven consecutive matches under new boss Ruud van Nistelrooy.

A home tie with Swedish side Elfsborg is then followed by a trip to Brentford in early February and two important cup games - the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final tie against Liverpool, which they lead 1-0, at Anfield followed quickly by a trip to Aston Villa in the FA Cup fourth round.

League meetings with Manchester United, Ipswich and Manchester City then close out February.

"This is not about me but what is about me at the moment is that I have the responsibility for the group of players I do have to get us through this," Postecoglou said after the defeat at Everton.

"That is what I have to focus on. For me to focus on anything else is abstaining myself from the responsibility I have.

"I am just determined to get us out of this, the club is doing its best to help the players more than me because they are the ones we are asking some massive jobs of.

“We had 18-year-olds and a 17-year-old out there trying to win games of football for us and others playing week after week. It is more about getting the players help than me help.

"I have never played the victim. At the end of the day I still believe the responsibility lies with me to get this right and that is where I sit with things.

"Whatever the circumstances are, and it is fair to say it is a challenging situation for sure, a lot of it is out of your control as a manager when you are losing the amount of players we are at the moment.

"But I still have to steer us through and if I start worrying about myself and the cards I have been dealt, it is a dereliction of my duty and my responsibility. It is not how I see it. I see it as these are the cards I have been dealt and it is up to me to get us out of it and I have to be good enough to do that.

"We are still in four competitions this season. We are in the semi-final of the Carabao Cup, we have a couple of big European games coming up, still in the FA Cup - obviously our league position is not great to say the least.

"We need to improve that and eventually our players will come back. It is a significant talent that will come back. It is not like this is what it is, there is motivation to get through this so that when we do get our players back we can get something significant out of our season."