{"id":16710,"date":"2025-12-15T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=671121"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:58:17","slug":"tottenham-must-stay-patient-says-thomas-frank-after-heavy-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/tottenham-must-stay-patient-says-thomas-frank-after-heavy-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham must stay patient, says Thomas Frank after heavy defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank has urged for calm and patience as he insists there is \u201cno quick fix\u201d to the club\u2019s ongoing struggles following a damaging 3\u20130 defeat to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League. Spurs\u2019 poor performance at the City Ground marked a difficult afternoon for the Danish coach and left questions lingering over the team\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham fell behind early after a costly mistake out from the back was punished by Callum Hudson-Odoi, who scored the opening goal before adding a second soon after. Ibrahim Sangar\u00e9 sealed the emphatic win for Forest, exposing Spurs\u2019 defensive vulnerabilities and inconsistency in front of goal.<\/p>\n<p>With just 22 points from 16 league games, Tottenham sit mid-table and trail the Champions League places, continuing a run of form that has seen them lose six times this season.<\/p>\n<p>Frank acknowledged the team\u2019s disappointing display but was adamant that immediate turnaround is unrealistic. \u201cThis is not a quick fix,\u201d he said, stressing that stability and time are essential to improve performances and embed his ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank has urged for calm and patience as he insists there is \u201cno quick fix\u201d to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3918,3796,4360,2464,1747,3550,1162],"class_list":["post-16710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-hudson-odoi","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-spurs","tag-thomas-frank","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}