On Sunday, Tottenham Hotspur’s Cristian Romero played in his fifth north London derby against Arsenal, and his team made it four defeats in those five games after failing to score against a Mikel Arteta side ravaged by injuries.
The best result Romero has ever had against the Gunners was last year’s draw at the Emirates Stadium. Other than that, his team have lost every single time he’s been in the squad.
Romero appears to be starting to take that fact personally, and he logged onto Twitter to share excuses on Sunday evening.
Argentine journalist Gaston Edul posted after the game that Arsenal had an advantage in the match because Tottenham Hotspur were the only Premier League team to get their players to organise their own way home from international duty.
Edul suggested this meant Spurs players got less rest ahead of the game, before adding that Romero played with a ‘feverish’ profile.
Romero reposted the post on his own profile, before later deleting it. Perhaps it doesn’t go down too well with your club if you share criticisms of them after a derby defeat.
Arsenal fans are unlikely to be very sympathetic with Romero feeling a little sleepy and having a bit of a cold.
The Gunners were missing Mikel Merino, Martin Odegaard, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Riccardo Calafiori, Declan Rice, Oleksandr Zinchenko, and Kieran Tierney for the game, while their opponents were only without £60m flop Richarlison and Yves Bissouma.
Arteta’s team could have used that as an excuse to lose the game, but they just won it instead.
