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Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic. My name is Jack Pitbrook, and I'm joined again today by James Moore and Charlie Ackleshare, as we look back on Spurs games against Norwich and Southampton, say goodbye to Christian Erickson, and look forward to the game against Manchester City this Sunday. Well, the good news is that Tottenham is still in the FA Cup

after their one-all-draw with Southampton on Saturday afternoon,

but they will be very frustrated with the fact they have a replay

and the late goal they conceded and probably some aspects of the performance.

James, did you think they deserve to go through?

Probably not on the basis of the whole 90 minutes. I'd say a draw.

A draw kind of felt like probably a fair result.

You're right.

It's particularly frustrating given we know Marino's been so keen to kind of make the

most of any three weeks he can to work with the players on the training ground.

And he certainly would have had his eyes on that kind of two-week break that

a little like they were going to have after the city game and now he's lost probably the

first sort of four or five days of that to this to this replay but on the other hand

southampton had been in really good form in the last few weeks and a decent side all of a

sudden so coming away with a draw probably not the end of the world. Yeah, I really didn't think Spurs were great. I mean, Spurs did have a few good chances in the first half on the break and if they'd taken them, they could have won easily. But Saints had more possession, they had more shots, they had more shots on target. Their pressing was really effective. They don't really have the same individual quality that Tottenham do,

but they do work really, really well together as a unit. And they kind of wore Spurs down at the end. They kept on chucking on players in the second half. And it didn't really feel like a surprise when the goal came. Like Danny Ingings had two really good chances just before the Equalizer. I mean, it felt a lot like if that game had come in, say, mid-December, when Spurs were kind of in a slightly better place, just after Marino had taken over, Southampton were doing terribly, if Spurs had gone one-nil up, Southampton's head probably would have gone, Spurs probably would have got a second goal, and that would have been it. I think the mental dynamic has probably shifted a little bit. Spurs have lost a little bit of confidence again, perhaps. And Southampton have certainly gained a lot. So with that in mind, I mean, I don't think, like I said, I don't think it's the end of the world to come away from their withdrawal. I mean, we've seen Spurs lose there on New Year's Day only like three weeks before. So aside from a logistical headache that that's going to cause, I don't think, I don't think it's the end of the world. They did at least create more chances than they sometimes have. Like I know that may seem like clutching at straws, but I think there have been a few games where they've struggled to do that a bit, whereas they did look in those moves where they created the chances, they did look a bit more fluid. And the replay is really frustrating. At least, you know,

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