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We made mistakes and were punished, Mourinho on Tottenham’s FA Cup exit

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Tottenham manager, Jose Mourinho, has reacted to his team’s exit from the FA Cup after a pulsating fifth round nine-goal thriller against Everton.

Despite Spurs’ Davinson Sanchez’s opening goal, the Toffees recovered with a two-goal lead before Erick Lamela and Sanchez levelled up.

Substitute, Harry Kane cancelled out Richarlison’s goal to take the game into extra-time before Bernart’s strike sealed the win for Carlo Ancelloti’s men in the classic encounter.

Speaking to BT Sport after the game, Mourinho admitted that his team was punished for the defensive mistakes they made that led to them conceding five goals.

“I enjoyed it, and I didn’t enjoy it. I enjoyed the way we played when we had the ball, from the first minute, immediately. We scored four goals and four goals was not enough.

“If it hurts me [the lack of defending], it hurts everyone from our team because the feeling is that we played really well, when we had the ball we were brave, we created. We were the best team winning 1-0, and certainly, in five minutes, there was, boom, boom, boom, mistake, mistake, mistake, goal, goal, goal.

“We fight back, we fight back again and there were more mistakes as we fight back again and that was, that was the mouse and the cat. The mouse was our defensive mistakes, and the cat was us trying to compensate that very well and it’s a lot of effort,” Mourinho said.

Speaking further, he said,

“Please don’t make me speak too much about the defensive mistakes we made, because that is obvious, and I don’t feel very comfortable to be speaking about it. We played amazingly well with the ball, and we made mistakes and we were punished by that.”

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