It has felt like some time since a Tottenham goalkeeper put up a sensational performance, and last night proved to be one of the worst in Hugo Lloris’ career with the north London club.
Lots of attention quite rightly on Tottenham’s defensive weakness. But it might help if they had a GK who could actually make save. Lloris, Gazzaniga and Vorm have been culpable for five of the last seven goals conceded imo. #THFC #COYS
— Jonathan Veal (@jonathandveal83) March 11, 2020
The France number one was arguably at fault for RB Leipzig’s opening two goals in Tottenham’s 3-0 loss to the Bundesliga side, with Football London awarding the shot-stopper an appalling three out of 10 rating after the full-time whistle as Lloris went missing in one of Spurs’ most important games of the season.
And the 33-year-old’s performance got some Tottenham fans on social media thinking that the goalkeeping position as a whole should be overhauled, with a few supporters suggesting that their current options just aren’t good enough and that a summer refresh could be in order for the 2020/21 season.
Here’s what a handful of supporters had to say on Twitter about the subject…
Too many mistakes and puts us on the back foot too many times
— KONG (@KongCOYS) March 11, 2020
Spine of team a priority. Top Draw GK CB CM and CF needed. Chuck in two new fullbacks as well. 6 new needed as a bare minimum.
— Andrew Lucas (@andrewlucas44) March 11, 2020
I said this last night Jonathan. Hugo hasn’t had competition at Club or international level since he signed for us. His position isn’t under threat at neither and that’s a major part of the problem.
He’s a fantastic shot stopper but makes countless errors
— Daniel Woodley (@dwoodley1990) March 11, 2020
Individual errors have cost us for years
— Alex Segal (@Alex_Segal) March 11, 2020
I thought we played well even up to the second goal. But very demoralizing for the team to see the goalkeeper let you down so often. If it was 0-0 there would have been a better second half performance. Something the muppets on TV can’t grasp. Does not fit the narrative.
— Graham Willis (@GrahamWillis5) March 11, 2020
I’d love to see the stats on how many errors leading to goals we’ve committed within 15mins this season.
It’s high.
— ap (@otheranthony) March 11, 2020
Lloris missed a good chunk of the season after suffering a nasty arm injury against Brighton last November.
This was definitely a below par performance from Lloris last night , and in all honesty Tottenham should now be looking an an eventual replacement sooner rather than later in order to plan for the future. Whether or not this is a higher priority than significantly strengthening a questionable and clearly inadequate outfield which seems alarmingly deficient in all areas remains highly debatable; however I certainly cannot agree with Mourinho’s post match comments insinuating a dramatic rebuild isn’t necessary. Tottenham are a quivering mess presently, lacking in both ideology or identity. And with the exception of Lo Celso who seems to be a player of genuine recognisable quality I struggle to see exactly where the boards transfer policy has worked in Tottenhams favour this last three or four years. Granted Ndombele may well turn out to be the midfield gem we had hoped and desired, but its clearly going to take time. Other than that I am not massively enthusiastic abut the signings we have lately made in Sessegnon, Bergwijn, Fernandes as recent season recruits. For me Spurs should have been signing more recognisable and established players to bring a level of stability and enthusiasm to the dynamic of our dwindling game/play. Given we have now so spectacularly crashed and burned from the CL and are hovering desperately towards mid table mediocrity as the season unfurls, a case for increasing investment could feasibly not only be recognisably argued but more so shouted from the roof tops. However given Levy’s pedantic and recognisable tendency toward penny pinching procrastination as a philosophy and sounding noises toward withholding funds instead of investing on the back of these failures I fear THFC will now be mired in a major struggle to regain lost ground. The thought of yet another season of this overwhelmingly painful drivel leaves me numb to my core, as we now speculate sadly on what might have been had more diligent support been put in place. For now all I can see is a struggle to maintain mid table positioning with re-juvinated rivals threatening to eclipse before seasons end and heap yet more humiliation and misery on an already struggling support. And this in itself may be the driving and final nail that sees Tottenhams very best demanding to leave… please somebody pinch me I’m ‘avin’ a ‘mare!