Harry fears for fourth

Harry Redknapp insists he is fully focused on Tottenham’s Premier League campaign but admits a top-four finish will now be tough.

Spurs closed the gap on fourth-placed Manchester City to three points on Saturday, but did so via a disappointing goalless draw at Wigan.

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With the North Londoners facing a trip to the Bernabeu for their UEFA Champions League quarter-final tie against Real Madrid on Tuesday, Redknapp was questioned on his priorities following the stalemate.

He pointed to his strong starting line-up as a measure of his intention to win at the DW Stadium, but he was left disappointed with the threat his attackers produced.

“I had my full focus on today’s game, it’s important for us to keep picking up points to try and get into that top four, but it’s going to be tough,” Redknapp told Sky Sports.

“It was an attacking team with Luka Modric and Rafael Van der Vaart, I thought they could get on the ball and cause some problems but it wasn’t to be unfortunately.

“I think we defended well but we weren’t clever enough in the final third today.

“I went with two up front. I played with Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe and I thought we could cause them problems but we didn’t cause them anywhere near enough.”

Dismissive

The former Portsmouth boss believes a draw was the right outcome but dismissed suggestions that Spurs were expected to comfortably overcome Wigan.

“We didn’t deserve to win, a draw is a fair result. Wigan had a couple of good opportunities in the second half,” said Redknapp.

“It’s not an easy place to come but then there are no easy games. I think people expect teams to go away from home and walk all over teams.

“You only have to look at results again today to see how tough it is.”

Spurs lacked width in the absence of Gareth Bale, who is facing a race against time to be fit to face Madrid.

However, Redknapp expects the Welshman to win that battle, although the same cannot be said for centre-half William Gallas, who is also on the treatment table.

Redknapp said: “I think Gareth could be fit, we’re hoping he’ll be OK. William, he couldn’t kick a ball yesterday, so whether he’ll be OK I wouldn’t like to say, he’s doubtful.”