Tottenham Hotspur lost 2-1 away at Burnley on Saturday.
Pundit Jamie Redknapp has told the Daily Mail that he doesn’t think Tottenham Hotspur have played well in the Premier League for nearly two months.
Spurs went into Saturday’s trip to Burnley having won four in a row in the league, but they came unravelled at Turf Moor.
Chris Wood put Burnley in front before a Harry Kane equaliser, only for Ashley Barnes to score the winner for the hosts in a major upset.
Tottenham must now regroup quickly ahead of their upcoming London derbies with Chelsea and Arsenal, but the dismal manner of their defeat on Saturday has some worried.
Pundit Redknapp has now slated Tottenham, believing that whilst they didn’t ‘bottle’ Saturday’s game, they’ve simply not been good enough of late.
A last-gasp win over struggling Fulham, narrow wins over Watford and Newcastle and a somewhat fortuitous victory over Leicester City – who have been poor in 2019 – have done little to impress Redknapp.
He believes that Saturday’s defeat was no surprise as this kind of result has been coming, criticising Spurs for stumbling of late, claiming that their last impressive Premier League display was on New Year’s Day – almost two months ago.
“After being talked up as title contenders, Tottenham’s defeat at Burnley was not a case of them ‘bottling it’. This has been coming,” said Redknapp. “Not since their 3-0 win at Cardiff on New Year’s Day have Spurs won convincingly in the Premier League.”
“They have stumbled over the line against a poor Fulham side, scraped past Watford and Newcastle and only beat struggling Leicester 3-1 after Jamie Vardy had missed a penalty to make it 1-1. That they came unstuck at a resurgent Burnley was no surprise,” he added.
It is though worth noting that Spurs have been without Kane and Dele Alli for most of that run, and any Premier League club would really feel the effects of losing two players of that quality.
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