Frustrated Conte lets fly at 'selfish' Spurs

Tottenham boss Antonio Conte tore into his "selfish" players, saying they "didn't want to play under pressure," after they squandered a chance to go third in the Premier League with a 3-3 draw at bottom-of-the-table Southampton.

Spurs were on course to secure an important win in their quest for Champions League qualification when Ivan Perisic scored in the 74th minute after earlier goals by Pedro Porro and Harry Kane.

The visitors led 3-1 after Che Adams canceled out Porro's opener, but the Saints hit back as Theo Walcott cut the deficit in the 77th minute before James Ward-Prowse's late penalty extended Spurs' winless run on the road to five matches.

Recent defeats by AC Milan and Sheffield United saw Spurs exit the Champions League and FA Cup, ensuring the club have now gone 15 years without a major trophy.

Conte was in no mood to spare his squad's feelings during a 10-minute tirade at St Mary's, with Tottenham now just two points ahead of Newcastle, who have two games in hand, in the race for the final Champions League place.

"We are 11 players that go into the pitch. I see selfish players, I see players that don't want to help each other and don't put their heart in," he said.

"Why? Because they are used to it here. They don't play for something important. They don't want to play under pressure, they don't want to play under stress."

But the 53-year-old Italian did express sympathy for Spurs' long-suffering supporters.

Conte's future remains uncertain as his contract expires after the end of the season. But he insisted that speculation over his position was simply another "alibi" for an under-performing team.

Elsewhere, Burnley manager Vincent Kompany endured a nightmare return to Manchester City as Erling Haaland scored his sixth hat-trick of the season in a 6-0 rout that sent Pep Guardiola's men into the FA Cup semi-finals.

Kompany, who won four Premier League titles in an 11-year career at City as a player, was given a hero's reception at the Etihad. But on the pitch City showed no mercy toward their former captain as Haaland took his tally for the season to 42 goals.