Brentford head coach Thomas Frank expressed mixed emotions after his side let slip of the chance to earn the club's first win over Tottenham since 1948.
The Bees had earned a two-goal lead in the 54th-minute when Ivan Toney joined Vitaly Janelt on the scoresheet, however, strikes from Harry Kane and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg earned Spurs a point at the Gtech Community Stadium.
Frank sees positives despite dropped points
The game was a tale of two halves as Brentford dominated the first but conceded control in the second, with the visitors coming closest to a winner when Kane's header looped onto the face of the bar in the closing stages.
A point against a team in the top four and pushing for Champions League qualification is no mere feat, but Frank feels that his side should have claimed all three.
"I wanted three," he said.
"Over the 90 minutes I think we should've won, if you look at everything. Unfortunately, you can't always look at that. Until the 65th-minute where Kane scores, I think there is one team, it's us controlling, creating chances, us being a threat.
The 49-year-old was "very happy with the performance" albeit adding that Tottenham were not that much of a threat throughout the match.
"I don't think they were a massive threat so they could've won it, but they were probably closer at that stage to win it."
There was a sense that the team's concentration was diminishing following the shift in the match's momentum, with Brentford's decision making becoming erratic at times as the game went on.
Frank contested this theory and is happy with how the game plan was executed during the last half-an-hour.
"The focus was good in what we wanted to do, to carry on. But I think that's a big thing, if you can't win, then it's important we get that point. They kept doing that, kept keeping the structure, kept keeping the discipline, and I think that's important."
Conte's game plan disrupted by difficult Brentford
For Tottenham it was another game in which they have had to come from a losing position to earn points; on this occasion it was just the one.
Head coach Antonio Conte was aware of Brentford's threat and prepared for it accordingly, but conceded that his side was fortunate to leave with a point.
"We know the difficulty to play against Brentford," he said.
"This season Brentford have beaten [Manchester] City, [Manchester] United, with Chelsea they drew also. I think they deserved to win the game."
The Italian went into the game with the plan to unsettle Brentford by pressing high, however this approach was scuppered by the Bees' use of direct passes into their centre-forwards.
"It was a game I think we prepared very well, but, at the same time, we wanted to start in a different way because Brentford is a very physical team.
"We prepared to go press high and to stay with the line very high. They played a long ball and they are very good at the second balls, set-pieces, throw-in. When you play against Brentford you have to pay attention."
In the words of the 53-year-old, it was an "exciting game" and one which was "very, very positive" in the second half. Despite this, he expressed a desire for his team start matches on the front foot and not wait to go behind before kicking into gear.
"We played with a great intensity, we played with the right desire to score, to create difficulty to our opponent.
"We do know that this is nine games in a row that we started the game and we conceded a goal. We go down then we start to play and we come back. We have to start from the first second mentally strong and to play the way we play in the second part of the game until the end."
