Experience cost Spurs a Champions League spot

Our home form cost us dear this season (technically it finishes 30 June, same day as contracts).

Clubs like to make their home a fortress, ours was more like a welcoming sofa. promoted clubs base survival on picking up enough home points but we finished a lowly 8th in the home games league table.

We lost 6 home games and picked up almost as many points away as we did at home, 33 at home, 31 away. In the away table we finished 4th, we need to be finishing in fifth place in the home table at least.

W	D	L	Total	%
Home	10	3	6	19
Away	9	4	6	19
Total	19	7	12	38

League table P Pts 1 Chelsea 38 87 2 Manchester C 38 79 3 Arsenal 38 75 4 Manchester Utd 38 70 5 Tottenham 38 64 6 Liverpool 38 62 7 Southampton 38 60 8 Swansea City 38 56 9 Stoke City 38 54 10 Crystal Palace 38 48 11 Everton 38 47 12 West Ham Utd 38 47 13 WBA 38 44 14 Leicester City 38 41 15 Newcastle Utd 38 39 16 Sunderland 38 38 17 Aston Villa 38 38 18 Hull City 38 35 19 Burnley 38 33 20 QPR 38 30

Home table P Pts 1 Chelsea 19 49 2 Manchester C 19 45 3 Manchester Utd 19 44 4 Arsenal 19 41 5 Southampton 19 37 6 Liverpool 19 35 7 Stoke City 19 33 8 Tottenham 19 33 9 Swansea City 19 32 10 West Ham Utd 19 31 11 Everton 19 28 12 Leicester City 19 26 13 Newcastle Utd 19 26 14 WBA 19 25 15 QPR 19 23 16 Crystal Palace. 19 21 17 Aston Villa 19 21 18 Hull City 19 20 19 Sunderland 19 20 20 Burnley 19 19

Away table P Pts 1 Chelsea 19 38 2 Manchester C 19 34 3 Arsenal 19 34 4 Tottenham 19 31 5 Crystal Palace 19 27 6 Liverpool 19 27 7 Manchester Utd. 19 26 8 Swansea City 19 24 9 Southampton 19 23 10 Stoke City 19 21 11 Everton 19 19 12 WBA 19 19 13 Sunderland 19 18 14 Aston Villa 19 17 15 West Ham Utd 19 16 16 Hull City 19 15 17 Leicester City 19 15 18 Burnley 19 14 19 Newcastle Utd 19 13 20 QPR 19 7

Newcastle United 1-2
Manchester City 0-1
Aston Villa 0-1
Stoke City 1-2
Liverpool 0-3
WBA 0-1

If you look at the games we lost, that basically cost us a UEFA Champions League place, only two of them occurred after November when Emmanuel Adebayor, Étienne Capoue, Younès Kaboul and Aaron Lennon were dumped. The four they were a part of were Liverpool (Aug), WBA (Sept), Newcastle United (Oct) and Stoke City (Nov).

Since then, when we brought in more youth we only lost twice, to Manchester City 0-1 when we didn't put the ball in the net when on top and Aston Villa 0-1.

Fans have been suggesting we need to buy experience but it is experience that cost us fourth spot

There was little difference between first-half and second-half performances.

Home	Away	Overall
Leading at HT	7	6	13		34%
Drawing at HT	6	7	13		34%
Losing at HT	6	6	12		32%
Total	19	19	38

We kept 26% clean sheets at home and 21% away and failed to score in 36% of home games but only 21% of away games. We scored 53% of our goals at home, 47% away and conceded 45% at home, 55% away.

We won 7 home games by 1 goal, 2 home games by 2 and 1 home game by 4 goals. Of the games we lost at home 5 were lost by a single goal and 1 by 3 goals.

In away games we won 7 by 1 goal, 1 by 2 goals and 1 by 3 goals, losing 2 games by 1 goal and 4 by 3 goals.

Goal margins (total)	1	2	3	4+
Wins	14	3	1	1
Defeats	7	0	5	0

Of our three main goalscorers Harry Kane scored 9 goals at home and 12 away, Nacer Chadli scored 6 at home and 5 away while Christian Eriksen scored 3 at home and 7 away.

At home we scored 4 equalising goals and conceded 6 equalising goals, away from home we scored 7 equalising goals and conceded 7 equalising goals.

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