Ebere Eze’s superb free-kick put Palace into the lead shortly before the hour mark, but three goals in the final quarter-of-an-hour for Tottenham turned the Premier League match on its head.
The manager said: “I think the players did a great job over 60-70 minutes. They stuck to the plan and we defended really well for most of the time.
“I think we could have been a little bit more confident in possession, but then we scored a very nice goal, but at the end, to win here at Tottenham you must play almost perfectly over the whole distance of the game, and we couldn't do this today and so we have to accept it.
“We will accept it as the status quo and we will work on it, so that we can keep this level high for the whole distance of the game, but today we were disappointed because I had the feeling at this moment, before the 1-1, we could win the game.
“But then it turned. In football, one situation can switch the game and maybe this happened today, but the players did it very well for a long time and, again, we’re disappointed.
“I think today the players did really well over a long time, but obviously we were not able to keep the intensity for the whole game. To win here at Tottenham you have to do this, and you have to be able to do that, and we will work on it.
“Of course I saw some improvements in defending today, but also we can be more confident with the ball. The possession game was sometimes good, sometimes was okay, but also sometimes we lost the ball too quickly, especially in the second-half – we could clear the ball and then after the second, third pass we lost it again, and so most of the game was in our half.
“But you also must give problems to the opposite team. They have to think about it, and at that time the pressure increased and increased, and this time they scored the goal.”