PARKER MAKES POINT TO JOSE
IT is hard to believe Scott Parker will be in any mood to apologise.
Not after Fulham put in a performance full of grit and with a determination to make their point.
The pre-match row about fixture rescheduling led Jose Mourinho to demand that Fulham should make an apology if they put out a full-strength line-up.
The away side were indeed pretty much at full strength and, having been behind for so long, they earned a point thanks to Ivan Cavaleiro’s 74th-minute equaliser.
It was no more than they deserved but Tottenham’s failure to kill off games came back to haunt them.
In the end, Fulham could have even nicked it when Ruben Loftus-Cheek fluffed a great chance. But they just could not find a second as Tottenham dropped more points in their battle to close in on the leaders.
Fulham boss Parker said: “No one really knows what we have been through the last couple of weeks, players out there tonight who have had one day of training.
“I’m proud because of how we played in the circumstances but I’m even more proud of them because we were outstanding from start to finish.
“You need quality to stay in
TOTTENHAM........ FULHAM............ this division and we showed that in abundance tonight.”
It is now 11 goals and 11 assists in 17 Premier League games for Harry Kane, whose opening goal highlighted everything good about Spurs.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg switched the play brilliantly with a fantastic diagonal pass out to the left. Sergio Reguilon raced down the flank and delivered an inch-perfect cross for Kane, who was storming into the box. The England striker dived in and headed powerfully home past Fulham keeper Alphonse Areola.
It looked a straightforward home win for Spurs but Fulham had other ideas.
Parker sent on Ademola Lookman and he was the architect of a superb equaliser as his cross was brilliantly headed in by Cavaleiro.
Spurs had a “winner” disallowed in the 89th minute when full-back Reguilon tapped the ball in the net but Son Heung-min was offside in the build-up.
Mourinho said: “We have to kill a game and we didn’t. You have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal.
“We have bad results and we should – and we could have – avoided these results.”