Ange Postecoglou claimed responsibility for an abject Tottenham display after their 2-0 loss at Chelsea and admitted his players looked to have lost belief in his football.
Spurs suffered a third consecutive Premier League defeat to see their top-four hopes all but ended on a painful night in west London.
Familiar problems reared their ugly heads for Tottenham, with a Trevor Chalobah header from Conor Gallagher’s 24th-minute free-kick enough to give Chelsea a deserved half-time lead, with that goal the 15th the visitors have conceded from set-pieces this season.
Chelsea made the points safe with 18 minutes left when Nicolas Jackson headed home after Cole Palmer had smashed an effort against the crossbar, but it was also tinged with embarrassment for the away side after Son Heung-min and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg ran into each other on the goal line.