Zaba: “We never gave up”

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Pablo Zabaleta claims there were a lot of positives from yesterday’s game notably their attitude after the third Spurs goal.

Speaking to the official site he said: “Of course, it’s a disappointing afternoon when you don’t win. It was a huge game for us, a derby, and we knew three points would take us to a better position in the table, so it was not good enough in terms of the result.

“I thought we were playing really well until the first goal, with great determination, but after they went 1-0 up the second goal came very quickly.

“They got the third goal after half time and it’s so difficult, but we did everything possible on the pitch to at least get a draw. And we should take that – there were a lot of positive things apart from the result.

“We never gave up, we went for goals. We scored two and there were a few minutes left in the game to try and equalise.

“We had a situation in the area when there might have been a push on Andy Carroll. It reminded me a bit of my penalty against Southampton at the end of the game, it was very similar, but different decisions and it’s a shame because it would have been a good chance to score a penalty.”