Tottenham 1-0 Newcastle: Mauricio Pochettino insists Spurs always believed Premier League title challenge was possible

Tottenham 1-0 Newcastle: Mauricio Pochettino insists Spurs always believed Premier League title challenge was possible
Mauricio Pochettino insists people inside Tottenham always believed a title challenge was possible – even if everyone outside the club doubted them.Spurs moved up to second in the Premier League table with Saturday’s 1-0 defeat of Newcastle, which was secured courtesy of Heung-Min Son’s late goal.The north Londoners are now just four points behind league leaders Liverpool and ahead of Manchester City, though Pep Guardiola’s can return to second when they host Arsenal on Sunday.2

Son scored late to keep the title race open

Liverpool are not in action until Monday evening, with Jurgen Klopp’s high-flyers visiting an out-of-form West Ham, and they’ll be hoping to restore their seven point lead over Spurs.Nonetheless, Tottenham’s position is still impressive against the back drop of a crippling injury list, uncertainty over their new stadium and two successive transfer windows without signing anyone.If people on the outside did not have faith, then Pochettino did.“It’s about now praising the squad, the players, to be in the position we are in the Premier League, no one believed at the beginning of the season that this squad was capable of being there,” he said.“Because of our belief, how hard we work, our mentality and everything, we are there.“We don’t need to be in some position like today to convince ourselves about our capacity, our potential or possibility to win. We always believe in ourselves. “We are there because we believe in ourselves. Then it’s if we are capable to fight until the end, to be close and fight until the end to go close to our opponent to be champions.“Today, we are there because we deserve to be there. We will see what happens in the future.”It will take some effort for Tottenham to claim a maiden Premier League title given the fact they have lost six games so far.But they have got themselves into second by winning the rest, breaking the Premier League record for most consecutive games without a draw, now standing at 29 matches going back to last season.“It’s easy to praise the mentality of the team. In some parts of course we are showing great mentality,” Pochettino added.2

Tottenham have. quite remarkably, not drawn a single match this season

“But in the end to win the games, sometimes you need some luck, some coincidence that happens in football, some situations, for me the most important thing is the team in a great level of belief, character and mentality, with a lot of circumstance we are again showing that we can win in any stadium and against any club. That is most important.”It looked like a draw might be on the cards as Spurs struggled to break down a resilient Newcastle side.But Son struck late on to end the Magpies’ three-game unbeaten run, which included Wednesday’s remarkable defeat of Manchester City.

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