Harry Redknapp admits his side were made to work hard for their 1-0 win against Sunderland.
Tottenham boss happy after seeing his side grind out win
Harry Redknapp admits his side were made to work hard for their 1-0 win against Sunderland.
The free-flowing football that Tottenham have wowed their fans with this season made way for dogged performance as they ground out three points.
The result moves Spurs ahead of Chelsea and into third in the table.
Redknapp told
Sky Sports: "It was a tough, tough game. We had to make lots of changes today.
"We lost Gareth Bale yesterday evening in training, he's got a bit of a sprain in his ankle, then we lost Aaron Lennon so we lost a lot of pace out of our team and that was a problem.
"No-one is going to be easy. They came here today and set themselves up well Sunderland. They always looked dangerous on the counter-attacks, so it was always going to be a tough game.
"But we stuck at it, and once we scored a good goal from Pav (Roman Pavlyuchenko), we pushed on and we made some good chances. "
Injuries
Lennon came off after 27 minutes on Sunday, whilst Bale and Jermain Defoe missed the game altogether with injury, but the Spurs boss is confident he will have at least some of them back for Thursday's clash with Chelsea.
"Aaron tore a hamstring today so he definitely won't be back for Thursday. Gareth's not too bad; he's just got a sprain of the ankle so we just have to see how he is really," said Redknapp.
"Jermain doesn't feel too bad. He's got a minor hamstring tear, he's a quick healer, he could be back in a couple of days."
