This was a rare sight in the Premier League in recent months: a Tottenham team utterly rattled.
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Tottenham have squandered the chance to take over at the top of the English Premier League when they lost 1-0 at London rivals West Ham.
But Antonio struck early in the first half at Upton Park and Tottenham were unable to respond as they suffered an untimely first defeat in seven league games.
Spurs were completely outrun in the first half and had goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to thank for keeping the scoreline at 1-0.
Star striker Harry Kane missed the best chance when he failed to connect with the rebound after Adrian kept out defender Toby Alderweireld’s long-range shot.
“You know, for me, they’re on top and they have the pressure too, like all the teams that are below”. We never found the solution to play in the way we normally play. It’s true it was hard.
“In all aspects of the football, for 90 minutes, we were simply magnificent”. “We have two important games coming up this week and if we manage to win both the table might look better again”. “We made some mistakes and the team didn’t feel free to play the way they play”, stated Pochettino. “We were poor, this is true”.
He said: “It is hard to know if they have players that have the habit to win the title after what happened against Manchester United and against Swansea last night”. The pitch doesn’t help to try play the way we wanted to play and it was hard to turn the result. They will be looking to snatch the 3 points from this game against West Ham and hope to get closer to their title dreams this season.
Gunners boss Wenger is likely to make changes for tonight’s must-win clash with Swansea but it remains to be seen whether Sanchez will be taken out of the firing line and his determination to play may make it hard.
“Our players are very disappointed in the way [we conceded]”. Getting on the end of another Payet set-piece, he had to stretch for the ball more than he’d have liked, and could only send an effort over the crossbar.
“The second half I think we start very well, we deserved more in the second half, if we score I think the draw was fair”. You need to be 100 per cent mentally and physically.
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Mousa Dembele has recovered from a groin injury but he will most likely be rested for this match in favor of an appearance against Arsenal on Saturday.
