Mauricio Pochettino offered Artur Boruc his complete support following the keeper’s calamitous error at Arsenal.

Boruc gifted the Gunners a first-half lead when he got himself into an embarrassing tangle, allowing Olivier Giroud to dispossess him and tap into an empty net.

The mistake came three weeks after a red-faced Boruc conceded a freak goal to Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.

But he received some strong public backing from his manager after Saturday’s gaffe.

“We just want to offer complete 100 per cent support for him,” said Pochettino, right, whose side missed the chance to go top of the Premier League.

Despite conceding two bizarre goals this season, Boruc, pictured below, has been in generally excellent form for Saints, and Pochettino certainly doesn’t expect his error at the Emirates Stadium to prey on his mind.

“He was able to get over that mistake,” said the Saints boss. “That’s the most important thing about football players – they need to learn how to live with mistakes and he did that.

“He kept on competing well and that’s the positive, that he didn’t hide. He kept on wanting the ball and playing well actually, competing well.”

While hindsight shows Boruc would have been far better simply knocking the ball long downfield, Pochettino said that is not what he encourages him to do.

“I do ask my players to play in a certain way, and that requires Artur Boruc to actually play with his feet, so he was just doing what he knows how to do,” he explained.

“It just happened that, (on Saturday), it didn’t happen as well as we wanted it to happen.”

Pochettino also said there was no need for Boruc to apologise for the mistake.

“Football players don’t really need to apologise to their own teammates,” he said, when asked if the keeper had said ‘sorry’ to his colleagues. “These things can happen.

“Football players can have amazing performances or they can have a bad day, as happened today to him, and we assume that these things can happen.

“The main thing is that they all support each other and, again, we need to move forward and just keep on working as we have been.”

Pochettino did not offer any opinion on the game’s other major incident – the late penalty awarded to Arsenal after José Fonte tugged at Per Mertesacker’s shirt.

“I don’t know, it was really hard for me from my point of view to actually see what happened there,” said the Saints boss. “In the end, we just have to accept that referees can make these decisions.”