Jordan rues Spurs' penalty pain

15 February 2010 07:46
Having been outplayed for the first hour of their FA Cup fifth-round tie Spurs, trailing to Kevin Davies' 34th-minute goal, got themselves back into the game with Jermain Defoe's clinical finish in the 61st minute.[LNB]When Sam Ricketts handled Peter Crouch's attempted flick over him Tom Huddlestone stepped up, only to be denied by Jaaskelainen.[LNB]Defoe was stripped of the spot-kick duties after missing in the previous round against Leeds, his sixth failure in 10 attempts from the spot.[LNB]"We have not been too lucky with penalties. Normally when you see Tom take them in training he does it with power but he tried to place it," said Jordan.[LNB]"But I think when a penalty is saved you have to give credit to the goalkeeper."[LNB]The Spurs assistant boss felt they did enough to win the match, with Crouch hitting the crossbar with a header and Wanderers defender Paul Robinson deflecting Wilson Palacios' cross onto the top of the frame of the goal via Jaaskelainen.[LNB]"We lived dangerously in the first half as we didn't play particularly well and the performance was not good enough," Jordan added.[LNB]"But in the second half we got ourselves sorted out and we should be going away with the victory, no question of that."[LNB]However, Bolton manager Owen Coyle was equally frustrated at not booking a place in the quarter-finals.[LNB]"(Tottenham manager) Harry Redknapp said to me at full-time he thought it was a game of two halves but I think it was a game of an hour for us with the last half-hour going to Tottenham," he said.[LNB]"The players will tell you I had a blast at them at full-time because I believe we should have done enough earlier on to have won the game.[LNB]"If we had come in at half-time with a bigger lead, no-one would have thought it was unjust.[LNB]"There is a lot to be pleased about. For large periods of the game we were in the ascendancy.[LNB]"Probably none of us wanted a replay but we are in the draw for the next round and who is to say we can't go there (White Hart Lane) and win the replay?"[LNB]Coyle also reported encouraging news on centre-back Gary Cahill, currently sidelined after being diagnosed with a blood clot in his arm.[LNB]"We don't want to get ahead of ourselves but the clot has dissolved and we'll revisit it in two weeks with a scan with a top specialist in that field," said the Scot.[LNB]"Having done that we will see what the picture is from there but there should be some news in two weeks and hopefully it will be of the better variety."[LNB][LNB]

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