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“A bit mixed. A club like Tottenham, when we’re playing Bournemouth at home, even though they’re having a good season, you do go into it thinking that this game we should be winning – no disrespect to Bournemouth, they’re having a fantastic season. Especially at home as well, a point’s probably not quite good enough in a game like that. But in the scheme of things, how we went 2-0 down and we showed character at times where we’ve probably lacked maybe a little bit of that when we just need that bit at the end.
“We’ve lost a lot of games this year by one goal, where we’ve needed just to find something. We managed to find it to get a point on Sunday, so it’s important that we do look at the positives and not the negatives. We’re going to need that Thursday [against AZ Alkmaar] because we’re a goal behind in that already from the first leg, so it kind of fits in well with the character we need to show then. But it was a point and positives to take in the comeback.”
“Well it’s a massive factor, and I don’t want to sound like I’m making loads of excuses, but when you have such a long period of time in the busiest part of the year where you miss (Guglielmo) Vicario, (Cristian) Romero, (Micky) Van de Ven, (Destiny) Udogie, (Dominic) Solanke, Richarlison for long periods, not just one game or two games, it is a defining factor.
“Of course, we’re not naive to not look in the mirror and think that we could have been better here, we could have been better there. …
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