Ben Davies says Spurs want to remain in touching distance of PL summit
Ben Davies has admitted that Tottenham want to remain as close to the top of the Premier League table as possible heading into the final couple of months of the campaign.
Spurs went on an extremely poor run for much of November and the start of December, picking up just one point in five Premier League matches.
However, since then, the Lilywhites have bounded back brilliantly, having won four of their last five games despite being without many of their key players.
On the back of their win over Bournemouth on Sunday, Ange Postecoglou’s men temporarily moved to within three points off the Premier League summit before Liverpool subsequently beat Newcastle on Monday night to open up a six-point lead over the North London club.
Ben Davies wants Tottenham to remain in the hunt
When asked about being in touching distance of the summit, Davies said following the win over the Cherries (via Football.London): “We’re there or thereabouts. Even the games that we’ve lost you’d argue they’ve probably been our fault that we lost them rather than we’ve been played off the park or teams have dominated us.
“There’s still not a lot in it at the top and that’s probably just us missing a couple of games off the back of our faults and on another day we could have been a couple of spots higher. So staying there, being there or thereabouts and hopefully, we can stay there for a lot longer.
“You’re aware of the table [at this stage of the season] of course, you don’t want to slip too far behind but it’s not the be-all and end-all right now. If you can put yourself in a position where come the last eight games then you start to take notice of it but we’re there or thereabouts.”
The Welshman is now the longest-serving first-team player at Spurs following Hugo Lloris’ departure to Los Angeles FC and the 29-year-old admitted that he will always be grateful for the Frenchman for his help, especially during his early years at the club.
Davies said about the former Tottenham captain: “Since I came here Hugo has been the club captain and he’s been a real help to me since I arrived. He was great from the moment I arrived as a young kid who didn’t know the big world of Spurs.
“He was great with me. He was one of those guys who had everyone’s backs at all times and what a keeper as well. He’s a great team-mate and someone it’ll be a shame not to play with any more.”
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If we can remain in or near the top four until we are boosted by the return of Bissouma, Maddison, Sarr, Son and others next month, we will have a chance to do something special in the final three or four months of the campaign.
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