Yves Bissouma was extremely poor in Tottenham’s 6-3 defeat to Liverpool
Tottenham Hotspur’s 6-3 Premier League defeat at home to Liverpool has put Ange Postecoglou under a lot of pressure. The North London side’s defence was all over the place and midfield non-existent, as the Reds eased their way to victory to hand the hosts their eighth defeat in 17 Premier League games.
Liverpool were dominant from the onset and on another evening could have scored more. Luis Diaz, Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai all got on the scoresheet for the visitors. Ange Postecoglou’s side could only reply through James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke, as Spurs’ topsy-turvy campaign continued.
Against Liverpool, Yves Bissouma, Pape Matar Sarr and James Maddison started in Spurs’ midfield. Arne Slot’s side won the midfield battle on the evening as they dominated the proceedings in a riveting clash.
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"I could have run past him" 🤷♂️
Stephen Warnock was not impressed with Tottenham's midfield's desire to track back in their defeat to Liverpool 🔴 pic.twitter.com/lP9ADovbRK
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Yves Bissouma was deployed at the base of Tottenham’s midfield but failed to get a foothold in the game. He was sloppy in possession, gave the ball away numerous times, conceded silly fouls and didn’t perform the basic job of protecting the fragile backline.
Sky Sports pundit Neil Warnock slammed the Mali international for his lacklustre display, claiming that Postecoglou’s Tottenham will never function with the 28-year-old in the middle of the park because “he couldn’t run and didn’t want to run”.
“Bissouma yesterday, I’d have run past him. He couldn’t run. He didn’t want to run. He didn’t have the desire to get back and be aggressive with people, and the sense that a tackle at times or even a shove into someone at times is so important,” Neil Warnock said on Sky Sports.
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Tottenham have an incredible amount of injuries and suspensions, including Rodrigo Bentancur. With no natural experienced defensive midfielder in Bentancur’s absence, Bissouma has been usually deployed as a No.6 by Big Ange. However, the Malian is not a defensive midfielder as he lacks the discipline, cleverness and reading of the game to essay that role for Tottenham.
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The African enforcer has failed to prove himself at Spurs since arriving from Brighton and Hove Albion in 2022. He will enter the final year of his contract (Transfermarkt) at the end of the season and the chiefs at the Hotspur Way are already planning to cash in on Bissouma in the summer.
