{"id":24563,"date":"2025-08-13T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/spurs-falls-to-psg-in-super-cup-tactical-plan-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:08:23","slug":"spurs-falls-to-psg-in-super-cup-tactical-plan-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/spurs-falls-to-psg-in-super-cup-tactical-plan-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs falls to PSG in Super Cup: Tactical plan not enough."},"content":{"rendered":"Tottenham coach Thomas Frank described his team&#8217;s loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Super Cup penalty shootout as a &#8220;successful operation&#8230; but the patient died&#8221;.The Spurs led 2-0 thanks to goals from central defenders Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero, before PSG pulled one back five minutes from the end through substitute Lee Kang-in.Another substitute, Gon\u00e7alo Ramos, equalized in the fourth minute of added time to force a penalty shootout in which both Van de Ven and Mathys Tel missed, allowing Nuno Mendes to convert the winning penalty, with PSG prevailing 4-3.Tottenham, which deployed a new 5-3-2 system, was on the verge of becoming the seventh English club to win the Super Cup, but PSG reacted in the last 20 minutes.<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0813%2Fr1531479_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El plan de juego de Thomas Frank no fue suficiente para que el Tottenham levantara la Supercopa de la UEFA. <cite>Marc Atkins\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>When asked about the change in formation, where the \u00a355 million signing, Mohammed Kudus, played up front alongside Richarlison, Frank said: &#8220;I knew we had to do something a little different against PSG, so it was like a special operation.&#8221;<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In medical terms, the operation was a success but the patient died. So it wasn&#8217;t so good in the end. But we worked on a slightly different game plan and were very close to succeeding.<\/p><cite>Thomas Frank<\/cite><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think if you play 2-2 against PSG, I think you accept that. That single result is good. Then, if we separate and have a penalty shootout, we lost, so maybe we need to work on penalties. Maybe that&#8217;s what it takes to win a final. I think if everyone had said this would be a draw and we would lose on penalties, everyone would think &#8216;oh, that&#8217;s pretty impressive&#8217;. And then, if you look at the performance and the effort they actually put in, wow. What a mentality throughout the match. So there are many things to be happy about.<\/p><cite>Thomas Frank<\/cite><\/blockquote>The Spurs begin their Premier League campaign on Saturday with a home match against newly promoted Burnley, while Champions League winners PSG, who can now celebrate their fifth trophy of 2025, start their Ligue 1 season in Nantes a day later.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham coach Thomas Frank described his team&#8217;s loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Super Cup penalty shootout as a &#8220;successful operation&#8230; but the patient died&#8221;.The Spurs led 2-0 thanks to goals from central defenders Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero, before PSG pulled one back five minutes from the end through substitute Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[614,706,7168,949],"class_list":{"0":"post-24563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-penalties","9":"tag-psg","10":"tag-super-cup","11":"tag-tottenham"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}