Alasdair Gold has slammed Eric Dier for his poor Tottenham Hotspur performance on Sunday evening while speaking on his YouTube channel.
Dier was part of a Spurs backline that shipped two goals at home in the Premier League for just the second time all season when they lost 2-1 to Newcastle United and the England international certainly played his part in the defeat.
First of all, he sent a wayward backpass to Hugo Lloris which almost found the bottom corner before then protesting for a foul on his keeper instead of getting back and stopping Callum Wilson’s chipped goal which saw them go behind in the first half.
Gold believes that the backpass and Dier’s moaning all game were what summed up a pretty torrid time for the defender.
(1:50) “Eric Dier kind of carried over what was a shaky display at Old Trafford with another kind of stuttering show, his kind of day for me was marked by, I don’t know if you remember, but he played this backpass right at the start of the game probably in the opening 15-20 minutes and it was like a rocket, it flew past Lloris nowhere near him and honestly, we all thought it was going in the bottom corner but it just snuck past the right-hand post.
“Yeah, that kind of, for me, just summed up his day. It was a day of lots of flapping his arms and complaining I honestly don’t think there was a moment where I didn’t see Eric Dier kind of moaning at the referee or official.
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“He was moaning obviously a lot in the aftermath of the first goal, he was moaning at half-time as he walked off, I saw him go over at the final whistle and moan and it was one of those where you kind of think alright, you’ve got things that maybe you feel a bit of burning injustice about but ultimately was your performance that good? Or you kind of deflecting from your own display and I felt that was kind of what he was doing.”
TIF Thoughts on Dier…
The fact that Dier has seemingly had back-to-back poor performances at the back for Spurs will be worrying for Conte who clearly trusts him a lot and labelled him as one of the best defenders in the Premier League earlier in the season, but it’ll also be worrying for Dier and Gareth Southgate heading into the World Cup.
Dier was seemingly not handed a moment’s rest by Newcastle’s front three of Wilson, Miguel Almiron and Joelinton who appeared to have the Spurs defence’s number all evening and could have scored more than their two goals.
Conte may now be thinking about handing Dier a rest in the Champions League this midweek and bringing in someone such as Ben Davies or Cristian Romero if he’s fit enough to maybe take the former Sporting Lisbon man out of the firing line for a little bit.