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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur Akimwalere.

Another home defeat and a flat performance against Chelsea, but Tottenham, our fifth in the

Premier League, having finished 17th last season.

So our spurs improving, under Thomas Frank.

In with us for this one, we've got Adam Crafton. We've also got a Tottenham hot spur writer, Jack Pittbrook, as well. Jack, a defeat to Chelsea

is never good news for a spurs manager, but how damaging is the nature of Saturday's loss for Thomas

Frank? Yeah, I think it's the performance that is more damaging than the defeat of Saturday's loss for Thomas Frank?

Yeah, I think it's the performance that is more damaging than the defeat.

Tottenham have a pretty bad record against Chelsea in recent years.

It's no surprise that they lost this game.

I think the real issue is the fact they didn't really do anything in the game at all.

They made no impression on it.

They were completely insipid. I think they finished with an XG of 0.05, which is one of the lowest recorded in years. And I think it really brought home questions that Spurs fans have

been having about particularly the creativity and the creativity at home, which had been pretty

poor over the

course of this season so far. Obviously, the league table position is fine, the away record is very

good, but there's some very serious questions to answer concerning the home form and the creativity

at home that Frank is going to have to come up with answers to. Well, one of the talking points

of the game was the post-match reaction of Jed Spent and also Mickey van der Venn, blanking Frank on their way off the pitch. Well, Thomas Frank played

it down. Let's hear what he had to say post-match. I think that's the, how can you say,

one of the small issues. We have Mickey Van de Vend and the Jet Spence are doing everything

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