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Jose Mourinho Bemoans Tottenham's Injury Struggles After Southampton Win

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Jose Mourinho has said managing his current Tottenham Hotspur squad is like playing a "chess game without pieces" due to their ongoing injury crisis.

Spurs squeaked through to the fifth round of the FA Cup by beating Southampton 3-2 at home in their fourth-round replay on Wednesday.

They were trailing 2-1 with 12 minutes to go, but goals from Lucas Moura and Heung-Min Son turned the game on its head in the closing minutes.

Mourinho had only a threadbare squad to work with for the Saints game due to Harry Kane, Moussa Sissoko, Ben Davies, Giovani Lo Celso and Erik Lamela being sidelined through injury, while new signing Steven Bergwijn was ineligible.