ClaretandHugh’s Niall McDonald rates the Irons
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Randolph: Didn’t have a shot to save in the first half. Pulled off a miraculous save from Dier at 1-1, will wish he’d not got a hand to the cross that led to their second 7
Kouyate: Clattered into the technical area by Janssen then suffered a nasty clash of heads with Eriksen before the break but played on bravely 7
Reid: Commanding in the middle of the back three and forced the penalty. Harsh second yellow 8
Ogbonna: Dwelt in possession and lost it ahead of the equalizer. Again a little laidback for me 6
Cresswell: Little to do against a very narrow Spurs attack before the break and they attacked down their left after it 6
Obiang: His best game yet 8
Lanzini: Magnificent. Stepped up in Noble’s absence, I’d wager he ran further than anyone else and scored from the spot 9
Payet: Played in bursts, set pieces were vital again. I was surprised to see him go off 7
Ayew: Looked more comfortable playing off the main striker. Lots of gesticulating to team-mates showing he was taking his defensive duties seriously 6
Antonio: Looked along the line and let Eriksen run offside early on. Solid defensively and still found time to score his sixth headed goal of the season 8
Sakho: Looked a bit rusty after the world’s longest pre-season, but led the line exactly as you’d expect a genuine centre-forward to do for 60 mins 7
Subs: Zaza: Showed glimmers up front. Not enough to keep Spurs’ defence occupied 4
Fernandes: Took a little while to get the pace of the game. Shored up the left wing when Payet went off 6
Nordtveidt: Not sure why we needed him to come on. Cost us the game? Have to say he did 0
A game to rate the performances not the result
This one hurts and Bilic needs to take the blame.Bringing on Nordveidt (who is a walking disaster)for Payet when it was all looking so good was footballing suicide.With the fixtures we have coming up in the next month he has to somehow pick up a shell shocked team that should have won today and been full of confidence.
Totally agree! As much as Bilic was the man for me, I’m now very frustrated at his insistance to bring on players who shouldn’t even be at the club, let alone on the bench 🙁
It was all going so well! #coyi
Several over at Kumb claiming that Zaza actually played very very well. Oh my, oh my, oh my.
He so far, including today has made Benny Mac and Mido look world class.
18 Competitive games so far this season, and not one single goal scored by a striker for us.
Yes.Fernandes and maybe Fletcher apart,the rest of the Summer signings have been a total disaster infact they have weakened the squad.Who takes responsibility for the dire signings and how are we going to put it right come January? .Not easy to get rid of so much dead wood and bring in real quality.