Palace supervisor Roy Hodgson mentioned: “I’m tempted to say, ‘What’s the purpose?’ You need to settle for there’s two referees in each recreation and each time one thing occurs on the sphere of play, the referee makes the choice, you continue to have to attend a couple of minutes to see if the opposite referee has seen one thing totally different.
“It occurs. Individuals will talk about was it or wasn’t it? Persons are taking away the choices, trashing should you like, the choices made by the man on the sphere and handing it over to somebody in entrance of a TV display screen.
“It wasn’t my apparent concept of what a penalty seems to be like, however that’s the identical for therefore many penalties that I’ve seen given as a result of I’m conditioned to some extent after seeing penalties given and never given for a few years.
“Pay attention, I’ve obtained to be trustworthy with you, I’ve no actual curiosity in discussing referees, Var and, to chop loads of questions quick, I assumed we performed very nicely, deserved to get one thing from that recreation, I feel we might have even mentioned {that a} efficiency like that would have gotten us three factors however it’s obtained us nothing.
“Then the following query is whether or not I’m frightened to demise now as a result of we’re just a few factors above the relegation zone. I’ll reply that one for you as nicely: No, I’m not.”
Describing his crew’s efficiency and his personal frustration at half-time, Pochettino mentioned: “We have been pondering an excessive amount of. I advised them at half-time to cease pondering. We have been transferring so slowly to start with. They have been nervous.
“When you’re older like us coaches you’ll be able to really feel issues. I felt them beginning to battle, there was a scarcity of communication within the recreation once we have been profitable 1-0.
“They began to really feel the strain and you’ll really feel when they’ll crash. I wasn’t so completely satisfied that we conceded within the final minute of the primary half however I’m completely satisfied that the gamers got here off the bench and made an influence.”