​ Tottenham Hotspur showed a great deal of spirit and nerve to come back from 2-0 down to earn a vital point against Manchester City on Saturday, and it marked yet another occasion on which Mauricio Pochettino's side have fought to claim points from losing positions.





Spurs have fallen behind in 10 games this season - to put that into context, only Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United (all 7) and Manchester City (9) have gone behind less - but the club from White Hart Lane has taken a league high 14 points from those fixtures.

Were it not for their ability to stay in games and fight back, Tottenham would not be battling at the top of the table for an automatic Champions League place, but would instead be competing against the like of West Brom closer to mid-table, on 32 points rather than 46.





Spurs also led the Premier League in this category last season, collecting 19 points from 15 deficits over the course of the campaign, while only Crystal Palace took more points from losing positions than Spurs in 2014/15 - Pochettino's first year in charge.





But this ability to fight for points surprisingly just pre-dates the Argentine's arrival. Tottenham remained in the league's top two clubs for taking points after falling behind during the brief and mixed Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood eras.

You have to go back to Harry Redknapp's time at the helm to find the last season in which Spurs weren't either best or second best in taking points after falling behind. In 2011/12, a campaign which ended disappointingly, Redknapp's team took a meagre six points from 13 deficits - ranking 17th compared to the rest of the Premier League.





It was a similarly low five points from 13 deficits in 2009/10 when the club actually qualified for the Champions League for the first time by finishing fourth. A little more backbone in certain games and they could perhaps have placed even higher in the final standings.

Taking it back to the last time the club finished outside the top half (2007/08), they managed just a single win and drew five others after falling behind on 20 occasions. That was the old Spurs. The last four-and-a-half seasons has seen a new and much mentally stronger Spurs.





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