By Daniel GriggTuesday, March 19, 201312:42 PM Tottenham blogger Daniel Grigg looks straight back on Sundayas 1-0 house defeat against Martin Jolas Cottagers at White Hart Lane. You need to be logged in, to send a link to this page to a pal. Every thing seemed rosy after the victories over Arsenal and Inter Milan a week or two ago and Spurs supporters were hoping that their part could build on those results a' particularly if they light emitting diode 2-1 away at Anfield. But those hopes have since faded defectively. Tottenham have now experienced three successive beats and admitted eight objectives in the process, scoring just three. It generally does not make very reading, and that routine has served to galvanise Chelsea, Arsenal and Everton, who all won at the weekend and have a game in hand. The standard instruction would be to look forward, not right back a' but that is not very stimulating both as we look forward to a hard run of fixtures: Swansea away, Everton at home, Chelsea away and Man City at home. The momentum is changed by the loss at Liverpool didnat an excessive amount of - there have been positive activities that day, regardless of the very careless second half and the initial category defeat since early December, on its own. Nevertheless, the visit to the San Siro a couple of days later was expensive, as Spurs experienced a seriously horrible 4-1 beat away at Inter Milan and nearly crawled via a link they have been leading 3-0 following the home leg. It is hard to recuperate from that, both mentally and physically, in under three times a and whatsoever Andre Villas-Boas and his people did, it didnat work. Tottenham were bereft of any inspiration moving forward against Fulham, inspite of the changes to the personnel. It absolutely was a really odd decision moving Benoit Assou-Ekotto forward to the left side of midfield, given the choices on the counter, and he struggled to get at grips with the part. Certainly there have been better approaches to drop Jake Livermore and move Mousa Dembele back to the heart again? Mark Schwarzer certainly enjoyed an easier day than many goalkeepers escape at White Hart Lane. He made a couple of good stops to make his clean sheet, but was also indebted to Tottenhamas useless passing and failure to produce chances. Even a well-rested Gareth Bale, who was probably lucky to skip the unrelenting 120 minutes of heart-in-mouth agony last Thursday, found little pleasure a which was surprising given that Fulhamas lumbering centre-back pairing looked like an ideal fodder for him. It had been not great for Emmanuel Adebayor, who started up front on their own against the ruling and real figure of Brede Hangeland, on the other hand. In effect, the match was eventually an account of three strikers. Adebayor worked hard enough this time around but could make virtually no impact or impact on the game. Jermain Defoe is with no goal since Boxing Day and had not many variations of the ball after showing as a second-half substitute a' though he twice came close to scoring. The next was Dimitar Berbatov, who was probably the most readily useful striker of my time as a Spurs advocate a' actually before Jurgen Klinsmann and Teddy Sheringham. Unfortunately, he advised us all of what we're lacking at the Lane, scoring the sole purpose of the game to simply take his tally to 38 in his last Premier League games, despite his star apparently waning. There was only really one positive to stick onto on Sunday amidst the gloom a' a significant display from 20-year-old Tom Carroll, who replaced Mousa Dembele and was chosen to the empty substitute Lewis Holtby. Carroll was lately called up for the England Under-21s for the first time, and he at least tried to have his foot on the ball and move it down the pitch with some rapidity, despite often providing ownership absent. Itas difficult to understand whether a global break is a great thing when a area have just dropped. Sometimes supporters and teams prefer to jump back in with another game. But, after seeing Spursa personality against Fulham - shell-shocked, tired and uninspired - another category game would probably have inked more harm than good. Follow me on Twitter @daniel_grigg Sign in to leave your opinion 0 comments
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