Hugo Lloris doesn’t look his old self – but Tottenham have greater problems
New York TimesIt might be easy enough to blame Hugo Lloris. Lloris was poor at the Etihad on Saturday evening, as what had already been a bad week for France and Tottenham’s No 1 turned even worse. Go back two weeks to the 3-1 defeat to Liverpool and the first goal came when neither Lloris nor Eric Dier cut out Sadio Mane’s cross to Roberto Firmino, while the crucial second goal came when Lloris palmed Mane’s shot into the path of Trent Alexander-Arnold. Put all of these mistakes together and you could construct an argument that Lloris is struggling, not looking much like the keeper he was at the start of this season, never mind the man who has been the rock Spurs have built on for the last nine years, to say nothing of his role in winning a World Cup. Even Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Tanguy Ndombele and Son Heung-min, three of Spurs’ best players this season, are now starting to look tired.