Harry Redknapp has defended Danny Rose after the Tottenham Hotspur left-back was sent off for a challenge on Aston Villa's Alan Hutton.

Spurs were reduced to ten at 1-0 down but still managed to secure a draw thanks to Emmanuel Adebayor's penalty at Villa Park.

"Danny is not a nasty tackler, he's a good player, a good little footballer," said Redknapp afterwards. "I didn't know whether [Charles] N'Zogbia pushed him into the challenge. I'll have to look at it again.

"We dominated the second half but we couldn't get the second goal. It's all to play for next week - there are so many permutations.

"If we'd won today we'd have taken Newcastle and Chelsea out of the equation so we wanted three points but you can't always have what's ideal.

A point means that Spurs are fourth with one game to go against fellow Londoners Fulham.