Harry Redknapp given Cheltenham instruction with Tottenham plea amid Igor Tudor strain

Tottenham have been crushed 5-2 by Atletico Madrid within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie, with Jamie O’Hara calling for the return of Harry Redknapp

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Jamie O’Hara has issued a determined plea for Harry Redknapp to step in at Tottenham Hotspur and exchange Igor Tudor following the 5-2 loss to Atletico Madrid. Spurs had one other evening to overlook within the Spanish capital as ex-Manchester Metropolis ahead Julian Alvarez scored twice and their goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky was substituted simply 17 minutes into his Champions League debut.

Diego Simeone’s crew will journey to north London with a three-goal benefit, aiming to safe their spot within the quarter-finals. For Tudor, it marked a fourth consecutive defeat as interim head coach, as their points continued to escalate, and the strain is steadily growing on the Croatian following his troublesome begin, which final week’s match towards Crystal Palace solely exacerbated.

With the specter of relegation from the Premier League ominously hanging over them, the Tottenham board are dealing with rising requires a second change of coach because the season began. O’Hara has appealed to former boss Redknapp regardless of the 79-year-old gearing up for the Cheltenham Pageant, the horse-racing jumps occasion that kicked off on Tuesday.

Talking on talkSPORT alongside former Spurs participant Jason Cundy, O’Hara stated: “Cease speaking concerning the Gold Cup! Tottenham is larger than the Gold Cup, Jase, Harry Redknapp would bin off the Gold Cup to return and handle Spurs, come and handle Spurs, they should get somebody in; they want somebody in so fast.

“You want somebody who is aware of a formation and can persist with it. [Tudor’s] performed 4 completely different groups and 4 completely different formations. How can he take over a membership of this magnitude? He hasn’t received a clue.”

O’Hara continued: “He has not received a clue what he is doing, he is a rabbit within the headlights, he has no thought the best way to get a tune out of any of those gamers, these gamers usually are not performing, I get it, however they aren’t this unhealthy.”

“Unusual sport. We give them three targets. We restarted good, however then the issues kill us,” Tudor stated after the defeat to Atleti. “Very, very unusual, very uncommon. It took our confidence. We apologise to the followers who have been right here right now, to everybody. They’d a troublesome second. All the things appeared prefer it was going incorrect, each small mistake we pay, even the state of affairs on the finish, two gamers out. All the things goes towards us.”