Rio Ferdinand says he is starting to “feel sorry” for Jose Mourinho as the individual errors are “killing him” at Spurs after they lost 5-4 to Everton in the FA Cup fifth round.
Bernard, who looked destined to leave Goodison Park less than a fortnight ago, scored the decisive goal seven minutes into the added period to overshadow the efforts of opposing substitute Harry Kane.
The England striker came off the bench to make it 4-4 in the 83rd minute with his 209th goal in 318 appearances in all competitions, taking him past Bobby Smith to become second-highest scorer in Spurs’ history behind only Jimmy Greaves (266 in 379).
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Kane could not get his side over the line, however, as that honour went to the out-of-favour Brazilian whose transfer window move to Dubai-based Al Nasr fell through.
It was the culmination of a game totally unbefitting the style of managers Carlo Ancelotti and Jose Mourinho, both of whom have built their success on being defensively sound.
This was the first time a Mourinho team had conceded four goals in a game since he lost 4-0 at Chelsea as Manchester United manager in 2016 and the first time in the 981st match of his career his side had both scored and conceded four in the same game.
“I have to say I actually feel sorry for him [Mourinho] in some ways,” Ferdinand told BT Sport.
“Because in recent weeks he’s changed quite a few times in the way they’ve approached games. The West Brom game was a bit different when Harry Kane wasn’t playing, and now tonight was open and expansive.
“But each and every one of those times recently they’ve been undone by individual moments, individual errors. As a manager, you can prepare all you like all week for each game but these individual errors are killing him.
“In that sense I feel sorry for him because sometimes it just derails his whole plan that he’s worked on all week.
“I think it’s a quality thing [issue], yeah. I think there’s too many players consistently making mistakes and it’s leaving them open and they’re having to chase games some of the time.
“Until they get that right and eradicate those types of mistakes they can never really consider themselves a team that’s going to challenge consistently because mistakes lead to goals, which then means you chase and leaves you open, it’s problems consistently.”
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