Player Watch: Hugo Lloris

[onthetwo]

Has anybody thrown the Jenas article in here?

If not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47768704

im glad he said it.....

 

[worcestersauce]

He was full of praise for Hugo after the Dortmund game but qualified it by saying you never know which Hugo you are going to get so I think JJ has had his doubts for a while, he feels our pain.

 

[wirE]

Question is; does Poch have the balls to drop our club captain? imo; no. Not at this stage of the season.

 

[dondo]

The second goal would have been disappointing to concede by an under 15's goalie. It really was his fault. If he'd have caught it, luck wouldn't have come into it.

The cross was in the air for a long time and landed more or less in the 6 yard box. Why is hugo not coming out to catch it in the first place

 

[John48]

It's so difficult with this guy. I've not been his biggest fan for a year or two, but you have to put against that he can make outstanding saves & he has won a WC. I just believe that at his age his experience should be such that these mistakes have been cut out of his game. He's admitted to having something of a mental aberration after the WC when he got done for drink driving & it seems to me it's still going on & we're paying the price for it.

 

[seppo]

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- Eduardo Galeano

This only applies to keepers who actually are consistently a 4/5 and for 95% of their game produce high-quality performances. The problem with Lloris is that he has in fact been on a downward spiral for at least two years and the number of high-stake f-ups are rising at an alarming rate. He's 32 years old - he should be in his absolute prime as a goalkeeper now, but the reality is quite the opposite. He's actually below the level compared to when he arrived at Tottenham right now. You go into a game hoping for Hugo/Trippier not to f it up and give the opposition a goal. That's unacceptable for a keeper. It should be the other way around.

 

[JimmyG2]

If he wasn't captain
and it wasn't the first game
at the new stadium
he would be dropped.

 

[onthetwo]

id love to know how many 'unforced errors' our defence has made this season v. the last 2.
Feels like there have been more this year but might just be that theyve happened in high profile games....

 

[Gassin's finest]

This only applies to keepers who actually are consistently a 4/5 and for 95% of their game produce high-quality performances. The problem with Lloris is that he has in fact been on a downward spiral for at least two years and the number of high-stake f-ups are rising at an alarming rate. He's 32 years old - he should be in his absolute prime as a goalkeeper now, but the reality is quite the opposite. He's actually below the level compared to when he arrived at Tottenham right now. You go into a game hoping for Hugo/Trippier not to f it up and give the opposition a goal. That's unacceptable for a keeper. It should be the other way around.

I'm sure Galeano of all people was unconcerned with qualifying his writing with percentages and ratings.

 

[fortworthspur]

Has anybody thrown the Jenas article in here?

If not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47768704

from one scapegoat to another...

 

[PerthYid]

He fluffed his gimme of the golden glove as well when his team were 4-1 up.

He was a shoe in and managed to screw it up royally in front of the world. He's a nervous wreck, he simply doesn't have the winners mentality we need. The only reason he won the World Cup is because of the lack of good French goalkeepers. He's cost Spurs too many times, gifting Coutinho a goal for Barca at Wembley this season, being the wrong side of the post when Mahrez tapped in, punching instead of holding the ball etc.

He's 2nd only to Pickford, another fraud in most errors leading to goals since 2017. He's made more mistakes than goalkeepers playing for the likes of Burnley, Brighton, Crystal Palace for heavens sake. Yes he is a hugely talented goalkeeper but he's cost us one too many times now. A team content with those figures can expect the team to go backwards if they aren't proactive in sorting it, which is what we are seeing all over the shop at the moment

Thought I'd won three thousand quid on an acca consisting of harry Kane golden boot and Hugo golden glove, was nearly in tears

 

[Gilzeanking]

If he wasn't captain
and it wasn't the first game
at the new stadium
he would be dropped.

Hugo dropped Jimmy ?....by Pochettino ? No chance .

 

[fortworthspur]

If he wasn't captain
and it wasn't the first game
at the new stadium
he would be dropped.

your haikus need work

 

[dixiespurs]

Reason why Pep and Klopp rushed to sign new keepers...

And even then £60m doesn't buy you consistent class from a keeper. Allison looked shakey with wayward passes and if not for Robertson would have been punished for parrying Kane's shot into Eriksen's path.

IDK what the answer is, Lloris is still one of the best keepers around and keeps us in more games than he costs us. (Most aren't even getting near that TAA cross/shot!) Gazza very capable when stepping in but Hugo is Poch's captain for a reason and I don't see him being dropped. Keepers' mistakes are magnified, we take our chances at the other end of the pitch and this isn't even an issue.

 

[nedley]

Has anybody thrown the Jenas article in here?

If not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47768704

He's spot on.

from one scapegoat to another...

Behave.

 

[JimmyG2]

Hugo dropped Jimmy ?....by Pochettino ? No chance .

On the other hand
an Argentinian sub
Might just decide it.

Note to Fortworthspur: that's a Haiku.
See Poetry Corner for further guidance.

 

[13VanDerBale13]

how many more times will he fuck up in big games till poch drops him? really hope a journalist questions why gazza hasn't been given more opportunities in the league

 

[SamR]

I like the guy a lot but Poch needs to be brutal and drop him. Players need to perform week in week out at the highest level and Lloris is letting the team down. If we want to be a top club, it has to happen and we need to get used to that idea.

 

[SUIYHA]

His form over the past 18 months has been a real worry. And whilst I'm obviously grateful to him for sticking through the AVB/Sherwood years and for bailing us out of trouble many times over his career, the fact is the errors are creeping more and more regularly into his game, and most worryingly of all, these appear to be coming not in the games against weaker sides where we have a two or three goal cushion or are likely to fight our way back into the match - they are coming with alarming regularity in big games that cost us important points. Off the top of my head:

• Liverpool - Yesterday's last minute howler.
  
  
• Man City - both games last season, one where Sterling nutmegged him at the Etihad, then he gave away a penalty in the home game. Seem to remember some ridiculous missed diving header there a couple of years ago too.
  
  
• Chelsea - Both games last season, first when he let a simple shot from Alonso slip through him to give them the winner at Wembley, then he completely missed a cross for Morata to score at Stamford Bridge. There was also this season's debacle with the Pedro near post shot and then Trippier's own goal which probably wasn't all Hugo's fault to be fair but still looked ridiculous.
  
  
• Barcelona - Inexplicably charged out of his goal when they were going out wide to allow Coutinho to tap into an empty net in the first minute, destroyed our game plan.
  
  
• PSV - 2-1 up away from home and cruising to our first CL win of the season - then Lloris charges out of goal, gets himself sent off and we concede.
  
  
• Man Utd - Felt he should have saved Rashford's winner at Wembley.

The World Cup final - Got away with it as France were clearly the better side, however that was arguably the biggest goalkeeper fuck-up ever in a WC final.

Yes the Aubameyang penalty save and the Dortmund masterclass was great, but games like that are becoming all too rare compared with the number of big mistakes he's making at crucial moments of big games. It's so sad to see because he has been unquestionably our best keeper since at least Thorstvedt, if not Clemence, however people are going to remember him more for this kind of crap if it carries on than the match winning performances we used to associate him with.

Would be a huge decision to drop him now though. To drop our captain and one of our longest serving players for the opening game at the new stadium with the Champions League game to follow would be a colossal fuck you to him. If we did and it Gazzaniga doesn't work out in those games then we've effectively killed two keepers careers in one go. It's definitely something Poch should consider, and even more so in the summer if anyone is available, but the timing now is bad...

 

[arunspurs]

This is Lloris's standard 'I fucked it up...again' face.

I am tired of seeing this face season after season after season...

After his drink driving drama should have lost his captaincy.

If he captains & leads the side in the first game of stadium ahead of Kane, its a big travesty.