SPURS boss Jose Mourinho insisted he is still one of the best coaches in the world today, despite his top-four hopes taking a huge blow at the hands of the high-flying Hammers.

A 2-1 loss at West Ham — their fifth in six league matches — increased the pressure on Mourinho, who is on one of the worst runs of his long managerial career.

From a position at the top of the table in mid-December, Spurs have won just three of last 13 games and their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League through the league are now all but over.

They were undone by goals in either half from Michail Antonio and Jesse Lingard, thanks partly to more defensive mistakes, though Lucas Moura’s second-half header did get them back into the game.

But Mourinho was bullish when asked whether he questioned his methods amid the poor run of form.

“No, not at all. Not at all. Zero,” he said.

“Because sometimes the results are the consequence of multiple situations in football, and mine and my coaching staff’s methods are second to nobody in the world.”

The current run of form is far worse than the results which led Mauricio Pochettino to be sacked in 2019. But Mourinho says his side — now nine points adrift of West Ham in fourth — are not in crisis, and hinted that the Europa League will now be their priority as a ticket into next season’s Champions League.

“I don’t know what you mean by crisis,” he said. “If crisis is frustration and sadness in the dressing room, I’d say so — because nobody is happy and we all showed that in this game.”

“I wouldn’t say crisis,” he said. “I would say a bad, a really bad run of results. That is obvious. We’re losing too many matches.

“But in the Europa League we are alive. Europa League is a window of opportunity that is open for us, and maybe we can also get to Champions League through the Europa League.”

Antonio struck from close range in just the fifth minute and then Lingard’s third goal of his loan move, reinstated by VAR after being ruled out, doubled the Hammers’ lead.

With games against Man City and Man United on the horizon, the importance of the win was not lost on boss David Moyes.

“We are really excited by it because this time last year we were worrying sick because we were going to get relegated,” he said of his side’s current campaign. “So we are thrilled with it.

“But the thing for me is that we can play much better than we are doing and that is what excites me because there is more to come.”

He added: “Where does it take us? I am really hoping we can get in one of the European competitions but if it doesn’t and we finish outside it, I think it would be hard to say the players have not had a good year.”