Cristian Romero retweets post hitting out at Tottenham for not flying players back from international duty on a private jet after the Spurs defender was at fault for Arsenal’s winner in derby

Cristian Romero appeared to criticise Tottenham’s travel arrangements in a repost on social media, claiming his team were at a disadvantage in the north London derby because Arsenal had flown players home early from international duty.

Romero reposted – and then deleted – a post by an Argentine journalist in which he claimed that Spurs gave Arsenal “an advantage” because Ange Postecoglou’s side were “the only Premier League club that allowed their players to return from their national team without their own logistics (organised by the club)”, meaning their “players arrived with less rest than the others”.

Travel responsibility for international matches lies with national associations and Spurs were pleased to allow Romero to return on flights proposed by Argentina after they lost a World Cup qualifier in Colombia on Tuesday.

Postecoglou had designated Thursday as a day off and the players were not expected for training until Friday.

Some clubs offer their players private transport to get them back quicker. Arsenal’s Brazilians were present at the training ground on Thursday.

Romero returned home on the flights proposed by Argentina after their loss to Colombia

Tottenham will arrange travel for international players if they feel it is necessary. This time they didn’t, and Romero appears to have taken it personally, reposting the original post after Arsenal’s Brazilian defender Gabriel knocked him into the air to score the only goal.

Postecoglou has vigorously defended his set-piece policy despite seeing his team fall prey to another dead-ball delivery. The Australian boss, who has refused to appoint a specialist set-piece coach since arriving from Celtic last year, has been criticised for his team’s problems defending dead-ball situations.

Postecoglou said: ‘I know, for some reason people think I don’t care about set pieces and it’s a story you can keep telling for ages. I get that.

“Like I said, we work on it all the time, just like any other team. You know they’re a threat. Overall, we handled them really well today, but we took one out and we paid a price for it. You learn from that and then you move on.”

Postecoglou cleared Romero of any blame for the goal, despite the Argentine appearing to lose Gabriel in the build-up to the winning goal. ‘Arsenal are clearly a big threat in set-pieces. It only takes one,’ Postecoglou explained. ‘It wasn’t just Romero, there were a few others out.

“The delivery was perfect and Gabriel is always a threat in such situations.”

Arsenal’s Brazilian defender Gabriel beat Romero in the air to score in the North London derby

Ange Postecoglou vigorously defended his set-piece policy despite seeing his team once again fall victim to a dead-ball throw

Postecoglou believes his team’s biggest problem was that they were unable to convert their dominance into goals.

“We had some good chances but we created so many more, we just wasted some of our good play,” he said. “Just like in our other games where we didn’t really have that confidence in attack.”