{"id":392245,"date":"2011-04-23T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/23\/tottenham-striker-jermaine-defoe-disappointed-with-2-2-draw-with-west-bromwich-albion\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T17:32:00","slug":"tottenham-striker-jermaine-defoe-disappointed-with-2-2-draw-with-west-bromwich-albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/tottenham-striker-jermaine-defoe-disappointed-with-2-2-draw-with-west-bromwich-albion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe disappointed with 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Mark Fordham<\/h3>\n<h4>23 Apr 2011 18:32:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.989684466\">\n<div readability=\"14.2941176471\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jermaine Defoe, Tottenham (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e501127815_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jermaine Defoe, Tottenham (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> striker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/2121\/jermain-defoe\">Jermaine Defoe<\/a> has admitted his disappointment at not having secured the three points against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/112\/west-bromwich\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a>, after Spurs conceded a late equaliser at White Hart Lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Defoe looked to have won the game for Spurs late on with his 100<sup>th<\/sup> goal for the club only for a Simon Cox stunner to ensure the points were shared much to the disappointment of the England striker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He told <em>Sky Sports:<\/em> \u201cIt would have been nice to have won the game and getting the three points was important today but we didn\u2019t do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe managed to get the point and I suppose we\u2019ve got to take that. They\u2019re a good side and made it difficult.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Defoe had to wait a long time for his landmark goal and he admitted that it had begun to weigh heavily on his mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked if he had been thinking of the landmark he added: \u201cEvery day. It\u2019s one of those things when you want something so bad it takes a while to come but I\u2019ve always said to myself \u2018just keep getting into positions where you can score\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cKeep working hard and I believe that if you work hard you get a lot of luck so to score the goal today was fantastic and to do it at home was good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Defoe&#8217;s recent lack of goals and playing time have seen him slump down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castrolfootball.com\/\">Castrol EDGE Rankings<\/a> from a position of 24 in October to a current ranking of 575.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e501127815_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/23\/2455024\/tottenham-striker-jermaine-defoe-disappointed-with-2-2-draw-with-\" title=\"Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe disappointed with 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe disappointed with 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Mark Fordham 23 Apr 2011 18:32:00 Jermaine Defoe, Tottenham (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe has admitted his disappointment at not having secured the three points against West Bromwich Albion , after Spurs conceded a late equaliser at White Hart Lane. Defoe looked to have won the game for Spurs late on with his 100 th goal for the club only for a Simon Cox stunner to ensure the points were shared much to the disappointment of the England striker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe disappointed with 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/tottenham-striker-jermaine-defoe-disappointed-with-2-2-draw-with-west-bromwich-albion\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe disappointed with 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Mark Fordham 23 Apr 2011 18:32:00 Jermaine Defoe, Tottenham (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe has admitted his disappointment at not having secured the three points against West Bromwich Albion , after Spurs conceded a late equaliser at White Hart Lane. 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