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The Spurs were closing in on three points as they led 3-0 after a brilliant 16 minutes of opening, where Son Heung-min’s goal after 45 seconds was added by Harry Kane’s double.
Bale made his long-awaited return to Spurs after seven years as a substitute in the second half when he was still 3-0, but it all went wrong for him as the Hammers scored three goals in the final eight minutes to snatch a goal from him. 3-3 tie.
Manuel Lanzini’s impressive goal in injury time completed a comeback started by Fabián Balbuena and an own goal by Davinson Sánchez.
There has been a lot of buzz around Bale’s return, which was almost marked with a dream goal that would have made it 4-2, but Mourinho did not think that Bale’s arrival affected the game negatively.
“I don’t think so, honestly, I don’t think so,” he said. “The decision not to take him out was a good decision. A decision to show that he doesn’t have a beautiful chair waiting for him on the team and that he sits there the first time he can.”
“It was a message for the team that in this team everyone has to fight for positions.
“He is very well accepted in the group. Everyone likes him, and I think he also likes what he found here. So everything is positive and the attention was not on him. The attention was on the game and it was on him. bench for 65 minutes or so and I don’t think so, I don’t think so at all.
“It’s a shame he couldn’t score that fourth goal, which was wonderful and would have killed the game. But that’s football.”
It seemed impossible for the Spurs not to win the game after their devastating start put the Hammers on the shelf. Son continued his hot streak with a starter after 45 seconds, before Kane scored twice in eight minutes as the Spurs’ excess goals continued.
Kane hit the post in the second half before West Ham’s late show ruined Tottenham’s day.
“I think you can imagine how frustrated I am and how frustrated the players are, but that’s football,” Mourinho said. “Unfortunately it is football for us in a negative and positive way for them, but that is football.”
“It’s easier for me to praise them than to criticize us. It’s easier for me to analyze internally and argue with the players than to talk about my feelings now.
“I’d rather say they had an incredible belief and they probably scored the first goal when they didn’t have that belief. We weren’t good enough or strong enough to deal with the last 10 minutes.”
The emotions on the opposing bench when Lanzini found the top corner from 20 yards in the fourth minute of injury time couldn’t have been more contrasting.
Boss David Moyes was impressed with his team, which continued its promising start to the season.
“We are building a really strong team spirit,” he said. “I think our performances in recent weeks have been very good. Our performances since blocking have been very good.
“It was difficult, the first 10 or 15 minutes you thought they were on fire and it was like, ‘Here we go.’ But after that we hold on and control the game. I think the players did very well throughout the game.
“It’s one of those moments that you don’t have very often, we scored the last three goals in the last 10 minutes.
“I saw my celebrations behind and all the players laughing at me jumping up and down, it felt like a David Pleat moment.
“That’s what football is for. When you get something out of nothing, it gives you emotions and I think that’s why we’re in it.”
“We never gave up, the players kept at it, it was a really proud performance.”
