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Ange Postecoglou looks like a 'beaten' man at Tottenham with his side having 'fallen off a cliff,' Jamie Redknapp has claimed.
The Spurs boss cut a frustrated figure during and after their 2-0 defeat by Chelsea on Thursday night.
A touchline outburst at his players and snappy talk towards reporters summed up his vexation, with Chelsea winning thanks to goals from Trevoh Chalobah and Nicolas Jackson.
It leaves Spurs seven points off the top four after three consecutive losses and only two wins in seven games.
'I look at the manager and he looks beaten,' Redknapp told Sky Sports.
Jamie Redknapp has claimed that Ange Postecoglou looks like a 'beaten man' at Tottenham
Postecoglou was irate during and after Spurs' 2-0 defeat by Spurs on Thursday night
'I was like, "wow, that's pretty damning." I don't like to see a manager like that. When you manage Tottenham - he's not been there that long - a lot of them get like that after a while but that's really early.
'Players aren't playing at the level they were earlier in the season. If you want to compete and have played as few games as Tottenham have, you've got to be performing every single week. That's really disappointing when I look at how good they were early in the season.
'They didn't win individual battles, didn't win enough second balls, they were so passive, especially in the first half in a derby game where you have to win those battles, play forward and look to pass with a bit of urgency. They didn't do all the basics.
'When Ange took over, I was watching the football thinking, "this is almost revolutionary." You've got two men coming into midfield, the two full-backs looking fantastic, people playing at such a high level.
'But they've fallen off a cliff now. They've won two out of their last seven since they beat Aston Villa away in one of the best performances I've seen this season.'
The 4-0 triumph away at Villa back in March felt like a pivotal day in the race for the top four, but Spurs have floundered since.
With the prospect of fifth place getting in the Champions League now extinguished, Spurs have to plug a seven-point gap to Unai Emery's side, with just a game in hand and four fixtures left.
Redknapp thinks Spurs have no excuses and believes the team will have to be strengthened in the summer to withstand a European campaign and mount another
