Wenger: 'It's difficult to understand how we lost the game'

We could not maintain our focus nor our urgency for 90 minutes on Saturday because some players dropped their level. At the same time if you look at the stats and the numbers it's very difficult to understand how we lost the game.

There was a drop of concentration, some basic errors, some bad luck as well because I don't think it should have been a free kick in the build-up to the penalty. But overall I was speechless after the game; it's a mystery how we could lose it like that.

We were in control in the second half as well as the first half. It was a free kick for us and then a goal for them. We were caught on the counter-attack at 2-0 and after that we were punished. We dominated Tottenham but we lost it and we can only look at ourselves.

I believe what is difficult to accept is that when you are 2-0 up, you have a free kick and you are caught on a counter-attack. That is very difficult to understand. Once a team comes back to 2-1 they have hope again. And we couldn't take our third chance. We had plenty of chances to score: we had Chamakh, Koscielny, one or two shots, but we didn't take those chances.

I don't think we lacked focus - if we had not started the game well maybe you could say that. But I felt some players who played midweek - who played Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday - could not maintain the pace in the game so we had some heavy legs in the second half.

Obviously three defeats at home is too many. In the first two games against West Brom and Newcastle we didn't deliver the performance and we can only say that we got what we deserved. On Saturday we delivered the performance but what is worrying for me is that we had an opportunity to go to the top of the league and when we had to deliver we couldn't.

That's worrying because that's part of our job.