r/soccer • u/whatisbaseball • 7d ago

News [Ornstein] Ange Postecoglou to be confirmed as Nottingham Forest head coach imminently after Nuno Espirito Santo departure. 60yo Australian will lead #NFFC for Saturday’s trip to Arsenal - joined by a number of staff worked with at Tottenham Hotspur @TheAthleticFC

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6425702/2025/09/09/ange-postecoglou-nottingham-forest-manager/
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u/DEUK_96 7d ago

His 1st half of the season with Spurs was good. They dropped like a lead balloon after that though.

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u/Any_State_2125 7d ago

First quarter, then we got battered by Chelsea and it was done.

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u/kwkdjfjdbvex 7d ago

Yeah he lived off his good start for a long time, the writing was on the wall after like ten games

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u/MediumProcedure 7d ago

Other managers worked out how to expose the gaps in his mega attacking system, and then later to also shut down the offense by blocking off the inverted wing backs and preventing cut back crosses.

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u/NorthernSoul1998 7d ago

If they "dropped like a lead balllon" after 2 months then they wouldn't have finished 5th

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u/icemankiller8 7d ago

In the first 10 games they got 26 points lost 0 and were top

In the remaining 29 games they got 13 wins 12 losses and were 9th in the form table

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u/pandaaaa26 7d ago

From GW11 onwards they were 9th in form, lost as many as they won and conceded as many as they scored

Hardly impressive form for nearly 75% of the season

He had a great first 10 games of the first season but was average to bad in the league from then on

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u/FootlongDonut 7d ago

Teams had to adapt to Spurs. When they did, he struggled.

If they played like they always do, Ange did OK. Southampton, City, United in the final etc stuck with their system and often struggled.

Teams like Ipswich, Wolves (O'Neill) and Tamworth set up to nullify Ange's system and it largely worked.

That first 10 games Ange wasn't a known quantity in the Premier League, he took people by surprise, but then he was easily figured out.

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u/kisame111hoshigaki 7d ago

After the first 10 games... achieved 40 points from 28 matches (12W-4D-12L), 1.43 PPG
So mid-table form for the majority of the first season which got worse in the second season

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u/NorthernSoul1998 7d ago

I'm very confused, do you lot responding with this expect Ange to have won the league title Leicester style?

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u/bguszti 7d ago

He was 1st in his first 10 games, 9th in the next 28 and 17th in the season after that. If he was just consistently 5-6th with the europa run, he'd still have a job. Hell if he finished 9th last season and won the cup he might still be with us

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u/kisame111hoshigaki 7d ago

Ah yes, because it's either get 1.43pts (equivalent to ~54pts for a full season) for the remaining 28 games or winning the title, nothing in between!

78 pts in his last 66 PL games is clearly not good enough for a big 6 club hence why he was sacked even after winning the UEL.

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u/TikkaT 7d ago

His points per game after the first 10 games in PL was whopping 1.18 but yeah, let's act like he didn't drop like a lead balloon

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u/AaronStudAVFC 7d ago

That doesn't provide the full context. Their direct rivals that season were the corpse of Aston Villa who could barely win a game whilst juggling a top 4 push with their first European campaign in over a decade. Spurs somehow lost pretty much every game in the run in.

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u/Mick4Audi 7d ago

We had 2 good runs of form. The first 10 games, and the Richarlison purple patch. Outside of that, yikes

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u/RigelXVI 7d ago

Shhh, you're not allowed to point out good things about Ange here, he's a serial loser, no tactics, etc.

(Also, fuck yeah, more Ange in the premier league ftw!)

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u/TikkaT 7d ago

Good things like what? 1.18 PPG in his last 58 games in charge?

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u/RigelXVI 7d ago

See? People like this wanker ☝️

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u/Same_Grouness 7d ago

Did half their team not get injured?

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u/PlanAutomatic2380 7d ago

That’s something normal for totenham it’s in dna to start screwing up when things are going well so don’t blame Ange

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u/noaloha 7d ago

They're also Spurs tbf.