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Arsenal great, Ian Wright has blamed Tottenham and their manager, Ange Potescoglu for sticking with his defensive high line despite their numerical disadvantage during Monday’s 4-1 loss to Chelsea.

The Blues picked up their first Premier League win against a top-four side this season after drawing their matches against Liverpool and Arsenal— although it was a hard-fought one.

Spurs were two men down for almost 40 minutes of the encounter, but they frustrated Chelsea with their setup and created a few chances of their own while the score was still at 1-1.

It wasn’t until the 75th minute that the Blues got ahead through Nicolas Jackson, who then added two more goals in added time to seal the win.

Wright however, believes that Spurs could have still gotten something from the game if they switched from an attacking setup to a more defensive system that would see them sit deeper, and hit Chelsea on the counter when the opportunity came.

“I couldn’t understand going down to nine men and your tactics are to be on the halfway line with defenders already [getting ready to run back] without pressure on the ball,” he said on The Overlap’s Stick to Football show.

“There was no way they were going to hold on when you’ve got that line like that, and I was thinking to myself, ‘If Ten Hag had those tactics everybody would have lost their minds’.

“But the deflection tactics of Ange were like Fergie-esque, the way he deflected everything off the way they played and what happened and the fact they got two players sent off for just craziness and then playing that high line. I thought that was genius form his point of view.

“What I couldn’t understand with Tottenham is that Chelsea – as much as they’re creating chances – they’re missing chances left, right and centre, so to not have the two banks of four with one in front and maybe break on them, to frustrate Chelsea when you’re 1-1, was baffling to me, I couldn’t understand what was going on.”