Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan admits he was left surprised by defeat to Tottenham.
Harry Kane struck in injury-time to earn the away win for Spurs.
Gundogan said: "I remember us being here before the match saying we need to be careful when we lose the ball in transitions.
"It feels in all three goals we invited them to score. We gave the ball away too easily.
"It didn't feel very hard because they defended very deep. For some parts of the game we moved the ball quite well, we created enough chances to score goals.
"But we gave the ball away, and I haven't seen that from us in some time to give away so many chances.
"There is a long way to go [in the title race], if we didn't know before we know now.
"Now we've got to work hard over the next couple of weeks."
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