Antonio Conte couldn’t hide his disappointment at Tottenham’s performance despite a sluggish victory over Morecambe.
Having fallen behind to Anthony O’Connor’s first-half effort, Spurs scored three goals in the final 15 minutes to avoid embarrassment against the League One side in a game they looked like losing for so long.
But Conte - played down the boos that greeted Tanguy Ndombele’s substitution - said: ‘At the end, I think we have to be a bit disappointed because I think we can do much better.
‘But our target in the end was to go to the next round and give a chance to players who didn’t play so much in the last period.