Serge Aurier left stadium after Jose Mourinho substitution vs Liverpool

Serge Aurier has risked the wrath of Jose Mourinho after he left the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium following his half-time substitution against Liverpool last night.

The Ivory Coach international was hauled off following an error-strewn opening 45 minutes and replaced by midfielder Harry Winks.

Aurier had been one of the players at fault for Roberto Firmino’s goal on the stroke of half-time and was not the only player withdrawn at the break with Mourinho forced to introduce Erik Lamela with Harry Kane having suffered injuries to both ankles.

While captain Kane remained at the stadium, Aurier, according to the Daily Telegraph, fled the scene and was not there to watch his side slide to a damaging 3-1 defeat against Jurgen Klopp’s reinvigorated champions.

Asked what the mood of his players was like at the break, Mourinho said: ‘It’s the mood of a team that it was difficult to accept you are losing, difficult to accept the nature of the goal because the goal is in some aspects a replica of the chance they had in the first minute. 

‘So it’s of course a mood where people are not happy – but then we have to move. Then Harry is injured and we need to try to do something. Unlucky that we started the second half conceding a goal.’

The injury to Kane, meanwhile, is likely to represent a further blow to Tottenham’s top four hopes with the England captain out for ‘a few weeks’. Of equal concern to Mourinho, however, was the quality of his side’s charitable defending.

He added: ‘It’s a performance totally affected by defensive individual mistakes. The team was very solid, the team was very confident and in the first half we made three defensive mistakes, individual, in the first minute almost a goal, in the middle of the half, a Mane shot on the inside that Hugo saved and in the last minute for the goal. 

‘To go in losing 1-0 was very frustrating, especially the nature of the goal and at half-time to be losing 1-0 and to lose Harry was not easy. Even so the team comes to the second half with the intention to fight and the second goal, I don’t need to speak about it. Again, great reaction, great goal and another one, Firmino handball disallowed, but another one. And then the third goal, another one. 

‘The third goal hurt me because the third goal was a mistake by a kid that played very, very well. Joe Rodon played very, very well.’

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