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Troy Deeney missed a penalty as Tottenham forced a goalless draw at Vicarage Road to deny Watford a fourth straight Premier League win.<\/p>\nTroy Deeney missed a penalty as Tottenham forced a goalless draw at Vicarage Road to deny Watford a fourth straight Premier League win.<\/p>\n
The Hornets skipper saw his second-half spot-kick saved by Paulo Gazzaniga, but it was another point claimed during the current resurgence under Nigel Pearson.<\/p>\n
Watford have now taken 14 points from their last six games and are looking upwards in the final third of the campaign.<\/p>\n
They came up against a Spurs team stuttering under Jose Mourinho and lacking a goal-scoring threat without the injured Harry Kane.<\/p>\n
Mourinho\u2019s side have now gone three league games without finding the net and are without a win since Boxing Day, meaning their top-four chances are diminishing with every match.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese will surely be knocking on chairman Daniel Levy\u2019s door to demand a new striker before the end of the month as Lucas Moura, Dele Alli and Son Heung-min all missed decent opportunities.<\/p>\n
Mourinho opted to start Giovani Lo Celso instead of Christian Eriksen in a deep-lying midfield role and the Argentinian was pulling the strings in a slick opening phase for Spurs.<\/p>\n
They controlled the opening 15 minutes but only had non-threatening attempts from distance from Erik Lamela and Japhet Tanganga to show for it.<\/p>\n
The game became very scrappy, not helped by a technical failure to Michael Oliver\u2019s battery equipment which may have stopped him checking a potentially dangerous foul by Etienne Capoue on Tanganga, with the Watford man escaping a card completely.<\/p>\n
Play was held up for the best part of three and a half minutes, much to the annoyance of the crowd, who sang about their dislike of VAR.<\/p>\n
Capoue was perhaps lucky to stay on the pitch shortly after as he cynically took out Lo Celso and was booked.<\/p>\n
Spurs finished the first half on top and could have taken the lead in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n
Alli drove forward and played in Moura, but the Brazilian\u2019s shot was well saved by an alert Ben Foster, who rushed off his line to get the block in.<\/p>\n
After surviving a poor miss by Abdoulaye Doucoure, Spurs had two more big chances to take the lead.<\/p>\n
First Alli could not keep a header down from Son\u2019s cross and then the South Korean blazed over when he burst clear down the right.<\/p>\n
But they needed a big contribution from goalkeeper Gazzaniga to keep them on level terms in the 70th minute as he pushed out Deeney\u2019s penalty.<\/p>\n
Oliver pointed to the spot when Gerard Deulofeu\u2019s shot was blocked by the hand of Jan Vertonghen, but Gazzaniga came to the rescue as he repelled Deeney\u2019s effort with a save to his right.<\/p>\n
Both sides pushed for a winner in the final 20 minutes, but it was Spurs who got into the better positions.<\/p>\n
However, they wasted them until stoppage time, when they thought they had found a winner.<\/p>\n
Serge Aurier\u2019s low cross led to a scramble and Lamela flicked an effort at goal but new signing Ignacio Pussetto made a fine impression as he cleared the ball off the line, with goal-line technology telling referee Oliver that it had not crossed.<\/p>\n