Jose Mourinho refused to blame Hugo Lloris after the keeper’s mistake denied leaders Tottenham victory at Crystal Palace before their top-of-the-table game at Liverpool on Wednesday.
Harry Kane put Spurs on course for a sixth win in seven league games with a shot from 30 yards which Vicente Guaita should have saved.
But Palace deservedly equalised when Jeffrey Schlupp bundled home after France World Cup winner Lloris could not hold Eberechi Eze’s free-kick.
“My goalkeeper is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League so I would never be critical of the best goalkeeper in the Premier League, period,” said Mourinho.
“If I have to blame anybody, I have to blame ourselves, the team. The ones that win, the ones that draw and the ones that lose.
“At half-time, I told the players exactly the opposite that we did in the second half, but if they didn’t, it was because they couldn’t do it.
“It was because they were not able to do it. I give credit to Palace for that.”
(BBC Sport)