“We wanted to win but unfortunately we didn’t do that and the dressing room is very down at the moment”.
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“Obviously, it’s a gutted feeling”. “I think we deserved the three points but we have no complaints and we have to be strong in the mind and prepare for the next game against Chelsea”. “It is true that it is very hard but we need to still believe, still fight and be ready for the next game”, Pochettino told the media after the game.
“If they [Leicester] lose the next game, you just never know with the pressure”.
“It was a game for an old head to say, “wide players, just play a bit narrower, full-backs, don’t go raiding all the time, let’s just dig in a little bit” and they didn’t do that”.
There’s still three games remaining, but if Leicester win against Manchester United, the season is practically over. As he faces the side he dreamed of joining, he will look to prove a point to Daniel Levy as to why he should possibly go back for him in the summer. We can’t control what other teams or other managers do.
The Lilywhites needed three points to cut Leicester City’s lead to five points at the top of the Premier League table after the Foxes were impressive 4-0 winners against Swansea City at King Power Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Yesterday’s result can be viewed as a highly unlucky one for Spurs after they hit the woodwork three times and were denied by good keeping from Boaz Myhill.
Tony Pulis was bellowing and instructing his players from his technical box for much of the contest and the Baggies boss was delighted with the outcome – backing Tottenham to develop their recent title-winning credentials in the coming years.
“It certainly looked like it got to some of them in the second half”. “They want to waste time, they want get into the referee, but that’s football”. We’ve got to learn how to cope with that. It is football. All we can do is keep fighting.
Ranieri’s team of bargain signings and even castoffs is on course to become the first maiden title-winner since Nottingham Forest in 1978 by completing the greatest transformation of a team in the post-1992 Premier League era.
“We have to cope with that”. Monday was just one of those games.
Ref Mike Jones missed the 26th-minute incident in the 1-1 draw at White Hart Lane which effectively wrote off Spurs’ title chances.
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Spurs fans have created some great atmospheres at White Hart Lane, and they have driven their team on to success.
