Martin Jol told Arsenal
they only had themselves to blame after missing a number of chances
before Jermaine Jenas's goal secured a 2-2 draw for Tottenham at
White Hart Lane.
Following the North London derby, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger
claimed that his side deserved to win by five clear goals after
dominating the second half at the home of their rivals.
Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure both scored to cancel out Robbie
Keane's opener, whilst both players and Emmanuel Eboue also hit the
woodwork.
However, whilst dismissing Wenger's claims, Jol told the Frenchman
that his team should examine their own shortcomings in front of
goal in order to explain their failure to secure a win.
"If you convert all your chances every match we could have beaten
Bolton by eight goals," Jol told the website.
"I'm kidding, but of course if you have five chances and can
convert all these then it will be five - but then it would probably
be 5-3 or 5-4 because we had one or two good opportunities in the
first half as well.
"I thought we played excellent in the first half, but the second
half we looked flat and tired, maybe from last week when we had
three or four games in ten days, and we were pretty lucky to get a
draw today.
"When it is 2-1 you never give up hope, but they had some
opportunities, one on the post and one header from Adebayor, and in
the last five minutes they could have made it 3-1 but they
didn't.
"So if you don't score the third one they gave us an opportunity
for us to come back into the game and they only have themselves to
blame."