Jose Mourinho admitted he feared Tottenham were going to be taken to extra time before eventually seeing off Wycombe. Tottenham substitute Tanguy Ndombele scored twice in the dying minutes after Harry Winks finally put the visitors ahead after 86 minutes against plucky Wycombe.
But Mourinho brought on all of his big guns with Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son among his other subs and the Spurs boss admitted he feared they would end up playing too many minutes before Tottenham face Liverpool on Sunday.
Mourinho said: “What can we do? We want to progress in the competition. We don’t want to throw it away. We don’t want to lose.
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