Roberto De Zerbi said the team \u2018suffered too much\u2019 but still felt we did enough to win as it ended 1-1 against Leeds United at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Monday night.<\/p>\n
We certainly had chances against a Leeds team who knew they were safe before the game and were on a run of four defeats in 22 in the Premier League and took the lead five minutes into the second half via Mathys Tel\u2019s beautiful curler into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Mathys then caught Ethan Ampadu as he tried to clear his lines and a penalty was awarded via VAR, tucked away by Dominic Calvin-Lewin. It was then left to Antonin Kinsky to secure a point with a world-class late reaction save, tipping Sean Longstaff\u2019s effort onto the crossbar.<\/p>\n
The point means we move two clear of West Ham with two games remaining \u2013 West Ham go to Newcastle on Sunday, we face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night (8.15pm UK) and we\u2019re both at home on the final weekend, 24 May (4pm) \u2013 we take on Everton, West Ham host Leeds.<\/p>\n
Speaking to us afterwards on SPURSPLAY, Roberto reflected: \u201cHonestly, we didn’t play a great game, but I think we played a good game, enough to win. We could lose the game at the end, but if you analyse the numbers of the game, the chances to score, the corners, how many times we came inside of the goal area of Leeds, we created enough to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we suffered too much, the pressure, because for the players, maybe today was the match point, and the speed of the ball, the order on the pitch, the decision with the ball and without the ball, we didn’t show calm with the ball<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we were too nervous, but I’m happy for the spirit, for the attitude. We fought, everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the Sunderland game, we couldn’t imagine now to stay two points up. So, we have to be stronger, still positive to prepare for the next game, like today. Also, for West Ham, they have to play two strong and two tough games against Leeds (and Newcastle). I have no doubt they go to play in West Ham with the same spirit, with the same qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi said the team \u2018suffered too much\u2019 but still felt we did enough to win as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-953954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-text","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116559442562061975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}