As an amateur goalie myself I find the criticism of Lloris a bit much. It's a position where any slight mistake or lack of concentration leads a goal. Lloris is probably the best goalkeeper we can get/have for a team our size. Look around, how goalkeepers in the world are truly better?
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Confirms the team was affected by both Summer and Jan transfer activity.
Confirms that he thinks he has benefited from his injury lay off (playing constantly without a brake - PL then World Cup then straight into League again without any break).
Seems to me (esp. when he's talking about what the CL took out of us) that GLC, Ndombele & Sess not hitting the ground running really held us back early doors too. We could have REALLY done with a boost from the new blood.
Yeah, possibly. My take, or at least what my brain was telling me when O was listening to him, was more to do with the players that we transfer listed and never got sold. There presence still at the training ground after the window shut and how that affected the dynamic. Need to probably rewatch it to see if this was his take or yours. Probably both.
Can anyone remember not so long ago when Loris never got near a bloody pen
fuckin hopeless. Something changed he’s bloody brilliant now
fuckin hopeless. Something changed he’s bloody brilliant now
Oh absolutely, that's what he was referring to (note his comments emphasising "...and January too")....
I just think it stands to reason that a 'new blood boost' would have helped everybody (including Poch) kick on.
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I think it's clear there has been a change in Levy since Mourinho took over. There's no doubt Levy saw Poch as a soft touch. Rather than get rid of a troublemaker to Watford for £14million, Levy tried to get £25million for him. Rather than let a player determined to go, go, for a decent fee, Levy saw Hazard to Madrid and thought, yep I can do that to.
The whole Eriksen transfer window scenario in July/August was fucking crazy. He seemed key to everything, money from his sale or new contract. It actually seemed as though Spurs revolved around Christian Eriksen.
Hugo Lloris at Tottenham: Is he underrated? The stats suggest so
Eyes are drawn to his errors but the stats suggest Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is underrated, writes Adam Bate.
Hugo Lloris at Tottenham: Is he underrated? The stats suggest so
Eyes are drawn to his errors but the stats suggest Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is underrated, writes Adam Bate.www.skysports.com
Amazing numbers, it's so easy to remember the mistakes but we are lucky to have Hugo.
Damn lucky to be fair, but those mistake against top 6 sides are criminal, I mean these are the teams and results that can decide a season....However, under Jose I can only see a drastically improved Lloris on the mistake count, and hopefully given a good run under Jose’s methods we could have one of the best keepers in the world on our hands, which is the level where Lloris should be......
I can’t wait to see it....
Hugo Lloris at Tottenham: Is he underrated? The stats suggest so
Eyes are drawn to his errors but the stats suggest Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is underrated, writes Adam Bate.
I've got an Woolwich mate who loves to have a dig at Spurs. When talking about a combined Leicester/ Spurs team he was adamant that Kasper Schmeichel was far better than Hugo
:llorisunsure:. He was being completely serious as wellSadly, I seriously doubt it. I think we'll see a good shot stopper making more and more silly mistakes. I had so much hope we could have snatched Nubel from Schalke, but alas that didn't happen. We really need to be on the look out for someone new.
That's the problem with Hugo, very rarely can you see a player do something so brilliant and follow it up with something really poor. The recent example where he let Ings get 4 yards out while he stood grimly against the post reminded me of 5 a side where the striker who is scared of getting hit by the ball is forced into his turn in nets.
EVERY 'keeper makes mistakes, it's whether the oppo score from them that create the narrative. I watch Eddison and Alisson every fucking week fuck up, but the oppo never scores from it. So if an oppo attacker is shit and misses an open goal as a consequence of the error, the error was still made. Both of these 'keepers make more errors than Lloris.
That's nonsense of course, overall there isn't much between the two goalkeepers nowadays.
The fact that Jose doesn’t ask his keepers to fanny around with the ball will surely help Lloris reduce the errors. They are always going to happen though because he is a proactive keeper.
“Steadier” keepers like De Gea don’t make those kinds of mistakes but that’s because they prefer to stay on their line and wait for the shot, they might not make “errors” that way but you can see from the numbers that they end up conceding more goals with that style.
The thing that annoys me with him is, in a game like today, he didn't even attempt to save Villas goals, just stood still watching them