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Adam Birchall on North London Derby draw

Adam Birchall was keen to focus on the positives from our under-18s 4-4 draw with Tottenham Hotspur.

We led 4-3 after a frantic first half thanks to goals from Max Dowman, Sam Onyekachukwu, Ife Ibrahim and Louis Zecevic-John.

But despite a determined second-half performance, we had to settle for a point after Spurs equalised with the final kick of the game.

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Birchall felt that we would have deserved the three points had we held out.

“Obviously I’ve got a lot of disappointed players in the dressing room, but I’ve tried to remind them how good they were in the first half.