Biggest positive in Tottenham’s draw with Liverpool is at least they are still fighting | Jonathan Wilson

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Igor Tudor has his first point as Spurs manager and they are one game closer to the end of the season and still not in the relegation zone. They had a period of bleak directionlessness just after half-time, and but dragged themselves from the slough and might even have won it at the end.

Everything about his body language at that point radiated disbelieving futility.Igor Tudor shows his frustration at Anfield but now has his first point as Spurs manager. And given just how bad things had looked, that’s significant.Spurs are in one of those spells when, just when it seems it’s impossible for things to get worse, they get worse.

It’s not just that his two early errors have almost certainly put Spurs out of the tie, or the long-term ramifications for the Czech goalkeeper being substituted after 17 minutes, it’s that the decision exposed how little Tudor rates Guglielmo Vicario. But being left out on Tuesday can’t have helped his confidence and he was at fault for the Liverpool opener, slow to move his feet to get across to Dominik Szoboszlai’s free-kick.He did, though, then make a fine low save from Gakpo – and that was Spurs all over: there was much that was poor, there were mistakes and moments when conviction seemed lacking, but they did not capitulate.