Frank calls draw against Wolves a missed opportunity after Chelsea and Liverpool both lose | OneFootball

Thomas Frank believes Tottenham’s draw against Wolves was a missed chance to take advantage of Liverpool and Chelsea’s losses earlier in the day.

Joao Palhinha’s 94th minute strike ensured Spurs got a point after Santiago Bueno had put Wolves ahead earlier in the second half.

Chelsea and Liverpool both suffered defeats before Frank’s side took to the field on Saturday. The Blues were beaten 3-1 by Brighton while Eddie Nketiah’s late winner gave Crystal Palace the win over the Reds.

Frank was asked whether the draw felt like a missed opportunity: “Yeah, I think if you look before the game,” he said. “You would say that there was a good chance for us to win, but we haven’t beaten Wolves the last five or six times in a row.

“Also a team that have lost their first five games, there’s a time where they will get something. I said before the game, they had played very, very even games.”

“It’s never easy, that said, I hoped and believed if we hit a top performance, we would win. We didn’t hit a top performance. I think we hit an average performance, but you do that sometimes. We got a point on a day when not everything worked and then we move forward.”

Xavi Simons most often featured as a number ten when playing for RB Leipzig and the Netherlands in the past but he has not yet started there for Spurs in the Premier League.

The Spurs boss says that the Dutchman still needs time to get used to the English league before starting in that position regularly.

“I think it’s trying to get the right balance into the team,” Frank explained. “I also need to learn the players and find out how we can get the best players on the pitch at the right time.

“I’m very aware that Xavi can play as a 10. He also got in as a 10 against Brighton because that was the third game in a week and I think that was positive. I think today when he got in as a 10, it didn’t really work, and that was not only because of him, by the way.”