Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool were forced to settle for a point, after playing out a 1-1 draw at White Hart Lane on Saturday afternoon.
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By that time, Danny Rose had equalised for the hosts and Spurs looked as likely as their opponents to find a victor. We played football and defended really good. Every outfield player has to be prepared to be buzzing for the 90 minutes.
Naturally, the perceived snub drew plenty of attention from the media in the aftermath of the game, with former Liverpool player and manager Graeme Souness revealing his belief that the England global had “a mountain to club” to force his way back into the starting line-up on Sky Sports after the clash. “I think first half they deserved more but second half we deserved more”.
Spurs now have five points from three matches and Liverpool have four.
“Simon saved our life previous year, Vorm saved their life a few times today”.
As Sky Sports pundit and ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher astutely noted last season, the trio deploy themselves quite narrowly which allows them to press well and also interchange more easily.
Harry Kane had an excellent opportunity to put his strike partner Vincent Janssen through on goal but his attempted through ball was too light and Milner comfortably intercepted what would have been Spurs’ best chance of the match.
“It’s a good team so hopefully we’ll choose different line-ups for different games”. In the end we have to accept [it].
Sadio Mane thought he had scored in the second half only for the goal to be, arguably incorrectly, ruled out for offside. “As long as we keep performing I am sure more results will come”. It was a wonderful goal.
“I can only pick 11 players for the start”.
Mauricio Pochettino has condemned the football calendar again as “crazy” as he prepares to say goodbye to most of his Tottenham first team squad for another worldwide break.
“I think Sturridge would like to [leave]”, he said. “We had to change a bit our plan and started to play with two strikers”, he said. But we showed we can be good. I make these decisions never against one player so I’m really happy that we have him and he will play, he will score and all will be good.
Liverpool arguably had the better of the contest in north London, but Tottenham’s Argentine manager was relatively content with his team’s efforts.
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“So I could speak to other left backs but the way this manager wants his full-backs to play is completely different to how other managers want them to play”.
