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Mourinho rues Spurs defense in VAR-tinted draw

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Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:28

Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho lamented his side's defensive miscues after a 2-2 draw on Saturday at Norwich.

Harry Kane struck a late penalty to salvage a draw against Norwich, who were controversially denied a goal by a VAR review, in an entertaining Premier League clash on Saturday.

Kane was brought down in the area and stepped up to secure a point in his 200th Premier League match after Serge Aurier's own goal had given battling Norwich the lead for the second time.

A first-half strike by the home side's Mario Vrancic was cancelled out by Christian Eriksen's free kick after the break.

"I think we made the same mistakes in the second half as we made in the first half," Mourinho told Sky Sports after the match. "This has been a little bit our story."

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Vrancic's goal came after Spurs defender Juan Foyth was dispossessed by Emiliano Buendia.

"We started very, very well. I think we had three or four big chances in the beginning of the first half, but we conceded two very bad goals -- the first one and the one that was offside.

"Then, in the second half, we were very, very good with the ball. We created, we dominated, but again the goal is a very bad one. You cannot concede as many goals as we do. But our defensive mistakes are match after match.

"I have lots of work to do but it's difficult. I always say we have to try to hide our fragilities. That is an important thing in football. If you have fragilities, you have to try to hide them."

Spurs were lucky enough to not go down 2-0 after Pukki's goal was harshly ruled out for a wafer-thin offside decision following a VAR review that left the home fans singing, "It's not football anymore."

Mourinho did praise his side for scraping out a point against a side who finds itself at the bottom of the table.

"A normal team with a normal soul would lose the game but the boys kept playing," Mourinho said in his post-match news conference. "We scored the second goal, we could have scored a third. We created chances from minute one to minute 90."

Reuters contributed to this report.

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