Really annoyed with the performance and result. It is typical Spurs once again, failing to beat teams you are supposed to be beating. The fact we lost 1 and draw 1 against Wigan this season is really pathetic when all other top 5 teams had beaten them. Wish we had drawn with ManCity and beaten Wigan instead. By helping them win the league, ManU might take it easy against both our rivals for top 4, Arsenal and Chelsea. Other teams would always go on to win after scoring early but it is the oppositite for us. We always get complacent after scoring early goal. Atleast we managed to get the late equaliser. The 1 point earned might become valuable if our rivals drop points.
After the way we beat ManCity last week, thought we will have no problem beating Wigan. But we didn't even turn up apart from in patches. The fact we only made 3 shots on target is really poor. Apart from the 2 lucky goals, don't think we looked like scoring. Bale did well to force the goalie into panic and hit the ball straight at him which deflected into goal. We should have put pressure on the goalie from then on but instead we hardly tested the goalie after that. Credit to Bale for scoring his 19th league goal but wish he had scored another goal as well. Bale tends to go missing after scoring a goal and he did that again. Really disappointed Bale didn't make use of the freekick in the last minute as he is capable of scoring from that position. Very disappointed about Dempsey and Defoe as well. They wasted a few good chances to score. Defoe should have scored from the one-on-one chance in the first half as he could have took it first time instead of trying to round the goalie.
Our midfield were again a big letdown in this match, especially Hudd. He should have made use of this chance to prove his worth. Instead he was hardly in the match. After coming on to destroy ManCity last week, he hardly made any impact against the less established Wigan midfield. Maybe he is only effective coming on as a sub. Don't think we were effected by Dembele going off injured as he was poor until then as well. Even Holtby didn't impress when he came on. I think our midfield badly missed a fit Lennon in this match. Without his penetrating runs, our midfield were unable to create many chances. Even when he came in the second half, he couldn't do much as he seemed not fully fit. Wish AVB had brought on Sigurdsson instead as atleast he can score. Also, don't understand why we brought on BAE instead of someone like Carroll to improve our midfield.
It seems our defence is getting bad to worse all the time. It is unacceptable to concede 2 goals against a shyte team like Wigan. It seems we have to score atleast 3 goals to win matches as our defence are capable of conceding atleast 2 goals per match. Disappointingly, even Lloris and Vertonghen have started to make mistakes regularly now. Vertonghen should have done better with their first goal. And Lloris really should have reacted fast for their second goal. Not sure how a supposed top goalie like Lloris can completely miss the shot. At times he looked like Gomes as he was shakey dealing with crosses and shots. Still not convinced fully of Lloris as he has not helped us to keep many clean sheets since joining us. Hope AVB will do something about our leaky defence next season.
We should have continued the winning run after beating ManCity last week. It would have greatly helped us in the top 4 race. Instead, now we have to rely on Arsenal and Chelsea dropping points. We can only hope that the 1 point earned will help us somehow to finish in top 4.
