Just as they were last Sunday at Sunderland, the Magpies looked to be heading for victory when they were pegged back by an injury-time equaliser. This time, it was Tottenham's Aaron Lennon who did the damage to cancel out Fabricio Coloccini's stunning 59th-minute opener. Pardew said: "If you have got a regular team that's winning every week and confident, you would have a little bit more 'je ne sais quoi' about you to see games out and be a bit more relaxed. "Perhaps because we had conceded late last week, the answer was, 'Well, we got a bit deep last week, let's go and get the second', and of course, that cost us today. "The balance is somewhere in the middle. "Some senior players were disappointed last week, and even more so this week, but we will correct that, we will get that right. "When you are a nailed-on, good team in the Premier League, that wouldn't have happened. "We ain't that yet, we have still got to work towards that. But there were a lot of good signs today." If Tottenham dominated for long periods, Newcastle created more than enough opportunities, and they should really have had the game wrapped up by the time Lennon struck. That said, they were indebted to goalkeeper Steve Harper, who made fine saves from Jermain Defoe and Lennon either side of half-time, and the crossbar, which kept out Luka Modric's 76th-minute drive. The same section of woodwork had denied Leon Best a 28th-minute opener, but when the first goal came it was worth waiting for. Coloccini on his 29th birthday collected Danny Guthrie's cross on his chest and drilled a shot across goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini and into the bottom corner. Substitutes Peter Lovenkrands and Nile Ranger both failed to make the most of glorious opportunities, the latter in the final minute of normal time, and Lennon took full advantage when he blasted a right-footed shot into the bottom corner. Asked about Coloccini's contribution, Pardew said: "I thought he was the stand-out player in the game, personally. He was brilliant in the back four today. "He made a tackle on Defoe in the first five minutes of the second half where he detached himself from the player he was marking and stopped a goal. "Then he went up the other end and once he had chested it and brought it inside, he is so proficient technically, I fancied him to get a good hit, which he did. "It was a great, great goal, I am so pleased for him. He is a really likeable character." Pardew's opposite number Harry Redknapp heaved a huge sigh of relief after believing his team were about to leave Tyneside empty-handed. Redknapp said: "When you are losing 1-0 that late in the game, it's a point gained. You are obviously delighted in the end to get something out of the game. "But credit to Newcastle, they are a dangerous side. They are playing well and on the counter-attack, they were always a threat, always a danger." Redknapp was happy enough with Steven Pienaar's performance on debut, but was dealt a blow when Gareth Bale, employed once again at left-back, left the field with a recurrence of a troublesome back injury after just 11 minutes. The Tottenham manager said: "It's been dragging on for a few weeks now, this back, so hopefully we can get it sorted out quickly. "You don't know with back injuries, do you? It's a shame. We need him playing for sure. "There wouldn't be a better left-sided player anywhere than Gareth Bale, that's for sure."
