VAR official Jonathan Moss awarded Spurs an early penalty, adjudging Harry Kane to have been fouled inside the box when it looked marginal, with Kane sending the spot-kick home for his 149th Premier League goal.

The official then ruled Brighton should not be awarded what looked a clear penalty of their own, and even advised referee Graham Scott to check Tariq Lamptey's second-half equaliser, but the goal stood after what looked a foul on Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

Mourinho said it should not be the managers' responsibility to come out and try and give an explanation to the decisions.

"They are decisions that I think they should explain and not leaving us in front of you, and us explaining things that many, many times we don't find any explanation to it," he added. "So I prefer not to speak about it.

"I see Scott as a good referee. He had the opportunity to go to the screen and watch on the screen the same thing we watched on the bench on our iPad. He should explain but I know that's not going to happen so let's move on and speak about a very difficult match that we won."

Graham Potter took a similar view and chose to take the positives out of a plucky defeat.

"There is a little bit of a talking point about our penalty decision," he said. "It is another conversation around refereeing and VAR which I am not too interested in. I can't control what they do, when I saw them live I wasn't sure about Harry Kane's one.

"I thought our one was a bit... similar to the Tariq Lamptey one against Crystal Palace, and there may have been a foul leading up to our goal.

"Lots of things going on. Live it is hard to say. I'd rather focus on our performance, it was really, really good tonight.

"Disappointed with the result, but really pleased with the positives. We pushed Tottenham hard and are disappointed to come away with nothing.

"It would be more concerning if we weren't playing well, our performances have been good on the whole."