Stewart Robson questions the red card issued to Davinson Sanchez and discusses how it affected Tottenham at Watford. Tottenham lost more ground on the leaders after being held 1-1 by Watford at Vicarage Road. English Premier League: Davinson Sanchez (52') Watford 1-1 Tottenham
WATFORD -- Mauricio Pochettino says Tottenham will emerge stronger from their slump after they failed to win for the fourth consecutive league game at Watford on Saturday.
The 1-1 draw at Vicarage Road leaves Pochettino's Spurs with one win in six in the Premier League and seven points behind third-place Chelsea.
"It's a good experience for us -- a team that in the last two seasons was also being praised by [the media] in the way we played and defended," the Spurs manager said afterwards.
"To live that experience is important, to learn for the future. I think we'll be a stronger team for it. Sometimes it's important in football to feel that frustration and disappointment that it's not all easy and you can't win all games easily.
"Sometimes in a tough period that can happen and you reveal your character and you learn a lot from this type of situation."
Tottenham failed to win for the fourth consecutive league game at Watford,
Spurs fell behind inside 15 minutes for the third consecutive game against supposedly inferior opposition, when Christian Kabasele headed home from a corner after some sloppy marking.
"We are very disappointed," Pochettino added. "Because we talked a lot in the last few days about being focused and trying to concentrate in this type of action. Watford only created problems to us through set pieces."
Pochettino claimed everything has been "against us in the last few games" but he refused to comment on referee Martin Atkinson, who showed Davinson Sanchez a straight red card on 52 minutes after Son Heung-Min's first-half equaliser.
"I am not going to talk about the performance of the referee," he said. "In the last three or four games, your first question is always about the decision of the referee and my decision is not to say anything about that.
"It doesn't change anything or help anyone. What happened, happened. The decision of the referee was right or wrong, we will have have time to analyse in private. In public you can judge the performance of the referee."
Dan is ESPN FC's Tottenham correspondent. Follow him on Twitter: @Dan_KP.
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