Peter Crouch claims Antonio Conte is using Stoke City’s tactics with Tottenham

Tottenham and Antonio Conte have confronted criticism for his or her method within the north London derby in opposition to Arsenal (Reuters)

Peter Crouch believes Antonio Conte’s techniques at Tottenham are the identical as what he skilled throughout his time at Stoke Metropolis.

Spurs suffered their first defeat within the Premier League this season on Saturday as they had been crushed 3-1 by their north London rivals Arsenal on the Emirates Stadium.

Tottenham had loads of first-half possibilities on the counter assault however Crouch feels Conte arrange his staff to defend too deep in opposition to Mikel Arteta’s facet.

‘I’ve performed this manner at Stoke,’ Crouch stated throughout his evaluation for BT Sport.

‘Tottenham have gotten sufficient gamers to not play this manner, I feel they could be a little bit extra expansive.

‘However if you happen to do play this manner, you’ve acquired to get out to individuals, you’ve acquired to get out to the ball, it’s acquired to be extra progressive, it’s acquired to be with extra aggression.’

Tottenham drew 0-0 with Eintracht Frankfurt within the Champions League on Tuesday (EPA)

Tottenham suffered additional frustration on Tuesday night as they laboured to a goalless draw in opposition to Eintracht Frankfurt within the Champions League.

The consequence has left Spurs second in Group D on three factors after three video games, whereas Sporting are high of the group with yet one more level.

Talking after his facet’s attract Germany, Conte admitted Spurs may battle with what he believes is a small squad.

‘I feel we did an incredible achievement for the membership to play within the Champions League. We completed the season with solely 12 or 13 gamers,’ stated Conte.

‘I at all times say that perhaps we had been fortunate to have the ability to face solely two competitions. I feel if I say now we now have to take steps and have persistence. In case you examine Champions League with Europa League or Convention League, it’s fully totally different. You need to play together with your strongest staff and it makes it tough to extra modifications. I spoke concerning the switch market and we all know we want extra home windows.

‘Right this moment I made a substitution and I introduced in [Bryan] Gil and he’s a younger participant. We've to attempt contain all of the gamers. We've to turn out to be stronger as a squad. If we now have the ambition and intention to play for these two massive competitions, Premier League and Champions League, and also you misplaced a whole lot of power and gamers to accidents, you want a very, actually massive squad.’

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