Brad Friedel remains Tottenham's first-choice goalkeeper, insists manager Andre Villas-Boas We don't doubt Hugo's dimension and talent but at the moment we are paying respect to a player who is performing very well. At the right time we will think about it or not and Hugo is an extremely good professional. He wants to come back into the team but he is competing for the jersey and he will get his chance very soon. Jermain Defoe is another player who is thriving on the increased competition for places at White Hart Lane. Defoe calmly slotted home from 12 yards, less than two minutes after Alejandro Faurlin had put the ball in his own net to make it 1-1. "He (Defoe) is performing at the top level," Villas-Boas said. He has had his opportunities this season and he is taking them tremendously. This summer I had conversations with him and his agent and told them that I am a person who respects people who are performing well and he deserved a lot of credit for the goals he scored last season. This season he is facing tough competition from (Emmanuel) Adebayor and Clint Dempsey, but he keeps on performing. The competition is making him tick. Having seen his team dominate the first half, QPR manager Mark Hughes was disappointed to emerge from White Hart Lane with nothing. The winless Londoners, who already have Fabio, Anton Ferdinand and Stephane Mbia out through injury, lost another defender on Sunday when Jose Bosingwa hobbled off with a hamstring strain. Bosingwa will undergo a scan to assess the severity of the injury on Monday, with Hughes fearing a long lay-off for the former Chelsea man. "When you feel something as immediately as that it's like to be a grade one or possibly a grade two (strain)," the Welshman said. We'll get him scanned and hopefully it will be slightly better news than what we fear at the moment.