Tottenham‘s bid for a top-four finish in the Premier League suffered a setback as Joe Willock’s late strike rescued a 2-2 draw for lowly Newcastle, whereas Southampton took an enormous step in direction of survival with a 3-2 victory over fellow strugglers Burnley on Sunday. Jose Mourinho’s facet have been simply 5 minutes away from transferring into fourth place when Willock equalised at St James’ Park. Joelinton had put Newcastle forward, however Harry Kane struck twice in 4 minutes earlier than the break. Even Kane’s newest heroics weren’t sufficient for Tottenham although and so they now sit in fifth place, two factors behind fourth-placed Chelsea with eight video games left. West Ham would climb above each of their London rivals into fourth in the event that they win at Wolves on Monday.
“I’m frustrated. We needed to win the match. We created some instability with so many individual defensive mistakes that we made,” Mourinho stated.
“Of course, we had the biggest chance of the game to make it 3-1 and kill it, then we concede a goal the next minute.”
Asked why Tottenham have struggled to carry onto leads when his groups have been so stable defensively in the previous, Mourinho replied: “Same coach, different players.
“The Premier League is hard and is high-level football, and when in some actions you don’t show that you belong to that high level of football, it’s difficult.”
Willock’s objective might show invaluable for fourth-bottom Newcastle as they battle to keep away from relegation.
Steve Bruce’s facet are with no win in seven video games and sit three factors above third-bottom Fulham, who would go above them in the event that they win at Aston Villa in a while Sunday.
Newcastle’s early stress was rewarded, with an serving to hand from Tottenham’s Japhet Tanganga, in the twenty eighth minute.
Tanganga gifted possession to Matt Ritchie with a wayward go and the Tottenham defender’s team-mates have been gradual to react as Sean Longstaff discovered the unmarked Joelinton, who slotted dwelling from shut vary.
The much-maligned striker’s first objective since November proved a false daybreak as Newcastle have been forward for simply 90 seconds earlier than Kane, recent from ending his England objective drought, punished the hosts’ woeful defending.
Trying to chop out Giovani Lo Celso’s go, Emil Krafth made a hash of clearing and Kane pounced on the ricochet to faucet into the empty web.
Four minutes later, Kane bagged his twenty ninth membership objective of the season in ruthless model as he raced onto Tanguy Ndombele’s inch-perfect go and fired into the far nook.
But Kane was denied a 3rd objective when he hit the put up and moments later Newcastle snatched an Eighty fifth-minute equaliser.
Joelinton headed Ritchie’s cross again throughout objective and though Hugo Lloris saved out Miguel Almiron’s header, on-loan Arsenal midfielder Willock slammed dwelling off the underside of the bar.
