Emerson had another shocker for Spurs

Tottenham Hotspur secured yet one more comeback victory on Saturday afternoon, with Antonio Conte’s facet coming from behind thrice in opposition to Leeds United to seal a 4-3 win in north London.

Certainly, objectives from Crysencio Summerville and Rodrigo noticed the guests take a 2-1 lead into half-time, with Harry Kane scoring Spurs’ solo objective within the first 45 minutes, earlier than a late Rodrigo Bentancur brace sealed all three factors for the hosts after Ben Davies had pulled Tottenham stage and Rodrigo had subsequently restored the Whites’ benefit with simply 14 minutes left to play.

Nonetheless, whereas Conte will undoubtedly be delighted together with his facet’s grit and willpower to grind out a end result, there have been nonetheless a lot of worrying particular person performances on show on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Hugo Lloris and Eric Dier each failing to impress of their remaining membership sport previous to the beginning of the Qatar World Cup later this month.

Having stated that, whereas the Frenchman and Englishman have been each disappointing on Saturday afternoon, it was but once more the show of proper wing-back Emerson Royal that would be the greatest trigger for concern for the 53-year-old supervisor, because the Brazilian turned in one other abject show in opposition to Jesse Marsch’s energetic Leeds facet.

Certainly, over the course of his 49 minutes on the pitch, the £35m-rated full-back supplied his facet extraordinarily little going forwards, finishing simply 25 of his 34 tried passes – a hit charge of a mere 74% – failing to seek out his man with both of his two tried crosses and dropping possession of the ball on 11 separate events.

The £40k-per-week expertise additionally missed an excellent probability to get himself on the scoresheet, inexplicably firing Ben Davies’ cut-back miles over the Leeds bar when it appeared simpler to hit the again of the online.

Emerson was not a lot better in metrics extra typical of his place, blocking one shot, making one interception and one sort out throughout his time on the pitch, earlier than being hauled off early within the second half – together with his withdrawal met by a refrain of cheers from Spurs supporters, one thing that Tim Spiers described as “horrible to watch“.

Certainly, Alasdair Gold awarded the right-back a disappointing five in his personal participant scores, whereas Hunter Godson questioned how dangerous the 23-year-old needs to be to ensure that Conte to drop him, with the journalist stating in a put up on Twitter: “Can somebody clarify why Emerson is undroppable? Is it that his positional play is fairly good? Genuinely questioning.”

And, with current reports suggesting that Tottenham could be open to parting with the Brazil worldwide within the January switch window, contemplating the truth that Spurs will play only one Premier League sport between now and the opening of the winter market, this could be the ultimate time the Lilywhites devoted see Emerson in motion for his or her membership.

Nonetheless, judging by their response to his substitution on Sunday, the potential sale of the defender wouldn’t look like one thing that many Tottenham followers can have sleepless nights about.