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Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou called his side's illness against Brighton successful the Premier League "probably the worst decision since I've been here".
Spurs were 2-0 up aft 37 minutes and heading for their sixth successive triumph successful each competitions aft goals from Brennan Johnson and James Maddison, but conceded 3 times successful the 2nd half arsenic Brighton took the 3 points.
"It was disappointing and I’m perfectly gutted with that," said Postecoglou.
"It's an unacceptable 2nd fractional - we were obscurity adjacent wherever we should be. Maybe we got carried distant with however we were going.
"We benignant of accepted our destiny and it's hard to recognize arsenic we've not done that portion I've been here. We usually combat for everything, and erstwhile you don’t you wage a price."
Spurs missed the accidental to spell sixth successful the Premier League and are ninth with 3 wins, 1 gully and 3 losses from their 7 matches.
Postecoglou criticised his side's mentality and spirit, adding: "Maybe things were travelling connected excessively smoothly. Football and beingness volition travel you up if you get excessively acold up of yourself and that’s what it looked similar successful the 2nd half.
"It’s a unspeakable nonaccomplishment for us, arsenic atrocious arsenic it gets, and there’s lone 1 mode to hole it and that’s my responsibility.
"We mislaid each our duels, we weren’t competitory and if you're not competitive, irrespective of what you bash tactically, it is not going to work."
Maddison scored his 2nd extremity of the play 3 days aft helium had been near retired of Lee Carsley's England squad for the Nations League fixtures against Greece and Finland.
The midfielder called Spurs' nonaccomplishment "a mates of steps back" aft gaining 5 consecutive victories - against Coventry City successful the Carabao Cup, Premier League wins implicit Brentford and Manchester United and victories successful the Europa League versus Qarabag and Ferencvaros.
"Brighton are a bully broadside and person bully players but erstwhile the archetypal extremity went in, successful adversity successful the Premier League you person got to enactment beardown and upwind the storm. The champion teams bash that but we decidedly didn't," added Maddison.
"We conscionable couldn't woody with the momentum shift. We mislaid implicit power of the crippled aft the archetypal extremity went in. We dealt with momentum precise poorly erstwhile they were coming astatine us. It felt similar it was onslaught aft attack, we couldn’t woody with it and they scored 3 goals.
"We were saying each the close things of not being complacent, but it doesn’t mean thing if you don't spell retired and amusement it."
Brighton moved supra Spurs into sixth, and manager Fabian Hurzeler said: "My squad deserved to win. They worked hard and focused connected the things they could control.
"Tottenham ever person a large start. They play with strength and we were not acceptable for that. We besides created chances but defensively we person to improve. We focused connected the affirmative things - the 2nd important happening was to triumph the duels to physique self-confidence. The players worked hard to summation travel and they utilized it.
"In wide I learned thing caller - this is ever imaginable successful football. When you are 2-0 down it is not easy, but it was important to enactment affirmative and I'm truly blessed for the players."
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