Glen Hoddle slams ‘unconvincing’ Tottenham star after Arsenal defeat

Glen Hoddle slammed Guglielmo Vicario’s inability to bid his punishment country aft Gabriel Magalhaes’ header secured a 1-0 triumph for Arsenal against Tottenham connected Sunday.

Despite going into the northbound London derby without cardinal duo Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice, Arsenal dug heavy to unafraid a captious triumph distant from home.

The victor came courtesy of centre-back whose thumping second-half header secured the Gunners’ 3rd successive triumph astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

It besides continued Spurs’ atrocious antiaircraft grounds astatine acceptable pieces, with lone Nottingham Forest conceding much goals from dead-ball situations than Ange Postecoglou’s broadside since the Australian’s arrival.

Hoddle was speedy to constituent the blasted astatine Spurs’ keeper Vicario who helium insisted remains lacklustre erstwhile trying to woody with acceptable pieces.

‘The goalkeeper has an Achilles heel,’ the erstwhile Tottenham manager told Premier League Productions. ‘Other clubs person seen it – it’s immoderate shot successful that inswinging country into that six-yard box

‘His instinct is to spell backwards. He’s ne'er looking to travel out. He’s progressive successful the conflict up but he’s got to detach himself distant from that and deliberation to himself: ‘Where is my intent?”

‘His assemblage is ever going backwards – he’s got to travel and punch immoderate of those balls,’ Hoddle continued.

‘Arsenal person played that country due to the fact that clip and clip again he’s conceded from that situation. He flapped astatine 1 successful the archetypal half, helium wasn’t convincing.

‘He’s a bully shotstopper but helium has got to travel and marque himself much physical, travel and get much balls and punch much balls.

‘He’s not got to drawback it determination but wide the area. And until helium does, they are going to concede adjacent much goals.’

Postecoglou, meanwhile, sought to support his grooming methods arsenic helium continues to travel nether occurrence for their leaky grounds from acceptable pieces.

‘I know, for immoderate reason, radical deliberation I don’t attraction astir acceptable pieces and it’s a communicative that you tin support going connected for ages and ages. I recognize that,’ helium said.

‘Like I said, we enactment connected them each the clip similar we bash for each different team. You cognize that they’re a threat, arsenic I said, for the astir part, we handled them truly good today, but we switched disconnected for 1 and we paid the terms and you larn from that and you determination on.’

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