Tottenham manager Antonio Conte calls for ‘money’,’time’ and ‘patience’ – but did VAR let Spurs down?

It was lone a fewer months agone that Antonio Conte was talking astir "miracles" and celebrating Champions League qualification.

Back-to-back Premier League defeats aft a coagulated commencement to the play person near third-placed Spurs 5 points disconnected the apical having played 1 crippled more.

They besides person much-improved Newcastle, 2-1 winners astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium connected Sunday, breathing down their cervix successful fourth.

Conte declined the accidental to talk astir Newcastle's contentious opening goal, choosing to usage his post-match interrogation to seemingly nonstop a connection to Tottenham's board.

"We request clip and patience and, besides for sure, money," Conte told BBC Radio 5 unrecorded portion answering questions astir Tottenham's 3rd decision successful 5 Premier League games.

• Newcastle ascent to 4th aft winning astatine Spurs

'We person conscionable started'

As precocious arsenic August, Conte said Spurs needed astatine slightest two much transportation windows to vie for the Premier League title.

The Italian, who was appointed successful November 2021, reiterated his connection aft the Newcastle decision and said Spurs "needed time" to amended the prime of the squad.

Spurs were missing Brazil guardant Richarlison, Sweden winger Dejan Kulusevski, Argentina defender Cristian Romero and Denmark midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg due to the fact that of injury.

"My lone worries successful this infinitesimal is we person to effort to support the fingers crossed and don't person injuries due to the fact that we are not a squad with specified a extent of squad to look competitions similar the Premier League and Champions League, but this is not thing against the club," added Conte.

"For definite determination are players that request to remainder for 2 days to retrieve due to the fact that we person players who for them this was 7 games successful a enactment and we don't person the anticipation to marque rotation successful this moment.

"When I spoke earlier I ever said look, we person conscionable started the process for Tottenham to bring Tottenham into the champion presumption to beryllium much competitory to combat for thing important, we person conscionable started.

"For this crushed we request to header with this situation. For maine it is not easy, it is not elemental but we person to header and to negociate the concern with acquisition and enactment together."

Spurs dropped points successful a Premier League location crippled for the archetypal clip since April (0-1 v Brighton), with the decision by Newcastle ending a tally of 8 consecutive league wins astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Should Wilson's extremity person stood?

On a atrocious time for Tottenham, Newcastle took the pb successful contentious circumstances.

Callum Wilson scored with an fantabulous lob from extracurricular the container aft colliding with keeper Hugo Lloris.

The extremity was awarded aft a lengthy video adjunct referee (VAR) cheque for a foul and handball.

Conte declined to remark erstwhile asked astir it - but for describing it arsenic a 'strange situation' - but erstwhile England keeper Ben Foster said connected societal media it should person been disallowed.

"This Callum Wilson extremity HAS to beryllium disallowed," added Foster connected Twitter.

"The GK is the subordinate successful power of the ball, if helium beats the striker to the ball, and the striker is successful the way, unluckily it's a foul."

But erstwhile Republic of Ireland guardant Clinton Morrison disagreed.

"Wilson conscionable stands his ground. I don't deliberation it's a foul," helium added connected BBC Radio 5 Live.

"It's arguable but for maine the extremity had to stand. Hugo Lloris should person conscionable moved Wilson retired of the way."

Former Bournemouth guardant Wilson told BBC Sport helium had each close to situation Lloris for the ball.

"I deliberation sometimes keepers get excessively overmuch emotion [from referees]. But helium chested it and dived into maine really, and I've carried connected and enactment it in," helium added.

Callum Wilson's opener for Newcastle was his archetypal Premier League extremity from extracurricular the container since January 2019

'Don't instrumentality recognition distant from players'

Newcastle person spent much than £200m connected players since Eddie Howe took implicit arsenic manager successful November 2021.

The concern seems to beryllium paying disconnected with the Magpies moving into the apical 4 aft triumph astatine Spurs.

"The occupation is if you subordinate with wealth it takes distant recognition from the players," Howe said aft the game.

"A batch of the players were present anyway. Credit the players for the performance, don't look astatine however the squad was enactment together.

"There is simply a agelong mode to go. It's a precise choky division.

"We're enjoying the infinitesimal but we won't get up of ourselves. We'll effort to win. I'm definite radical volition speech america up but I don't privation to enactment immoderate outer unit connected my players."

Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie Redknapp told Sky Sports: "Eddie Howe deserves truthful overmuch credit. Maybe radical wanted the superstar sanction arsenic manager, but helium has done magnificently. They are going places, they person the instrumentality base, the infrastructure and the money."