Again, Liverpool showed superiority over Spurs this season as Jose Mourinho’s side lost 3 – 1 at home to the Reds on Thursday night.
Roberto Firmino, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Sadio Mane got their names on the scoresheet while Pierre-Emile Hoejbjerg scored the only goal for Spurs.
It was Liverpool’s first win in the Premier League since the start of the new year and their first victory from a five-game winless streak.
It was an awful night for Jose Mourinho as the Portuguese was dealt with a double blow following an injury his star striker Harry Kane sustained in the game.
The 57-year-old vented his fury at Thiago’s “bad tackle” on his key man, who he confirmed would be out for “a few weeks”.
Kane seemed to have been on the receiving end of countless heavy challenges in the early stages of the clash.
Lamenting on the loss of his irreplaceable talisman, Mourinho provided an update on the potential double ankle injury the 27-year-old sustained.
“Two ankles, the first was a bad tackle, it was Thiago, the second one I didn’t know well,” Mourinho told BBC Radio 5 Live .
“But two injuries in both ankles, the second one worst than the first one – a few weeks, I don’t know. There are some players you can’t replace.”
He added in his post-match press conference: “For Harry to leave a game when he wants to play with the team losing, for Harry to come out means it is not a nothing injury.
“For how long I can’t tell you. I don’t know, we will have to wait and see.”
Speaking about his team’s performance, Mourinho added: “My analysis is that we started very well, but before we scored the offside goal we showed immediately what the game was going to be for us – a big occasion for Mane, a big defensive mistake.
“That was the game for us, the team in the first half was very well organised, the goal is another mistake in the same position.
“The second half we had to make changes, we lose Harry, had to change the structure of the team. First minute, same mistake, second goal. Good reaction, another mistake and goal.
“It was a team fighting against its own mistakes. Some individual mistakes that you saw, you can replay and I cannot say much more than that.”
Sixth placed Tottenham will travel to the Amex to face Brighton on Sunday, before a date with Chelsea on Thursday.
