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Tim Sherwood has blasted Lucas Digne for making an attempt to shift the blame onto his Aston Villa teammates for an error he made in opposition to Spurs on the weekend.
Travelling to tackle Ange Postecoglou’s Lilywhites on Sunday, Villa had been trying to take one thing away from London and proceed their march into the European spots.
Regardless of Morgan Rogers opening the scoring after 32 minutes, Unai Emery’s facet ended up struggling their worst defeat of the season.
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A second-half comeback from the house group noticed Villa dismantled. Targets from Brennan Johnson, Son Heung-min and a brace from Dominic Solanke secured a 4-1 victory for Postecoglou and stored Villa exterior of the Champions League spots.
Tim Sherwood slams Lucas Digne for ‘blaming’ Aston Villa teammates
And discussing the half Digne performed in Johnson’s necessary equaliser, Sherwood highlighted the Frenchman’s physique language as an space of concern.
Sherwood believes Digne was too ‘targeted and nervous’ about fellow full-back Pedro Porro regardless of Johnson being the participant he needed to mark.
“They’re all the time going to be a risk, Tottenham, it doesn’t matter what, you are feeling like they’re all the time going to attain targets,” Sherwood instructed Premier League Productions within the aftermath of Sunday’s sport.
“Son does good right here. The supply is unbelievable. Johnson drifts on the blind facet of Digne. He doesn’t even see him. He has obtained Pedro Porro. That’s all he’s targeted about. It’s all he’s nervous about and he hasn’t even seen Johnson behind him.
“He’s regularly Porro. His physique form is all improper. Sonny is doing his work on the opposite facet of the pitch. He simply sneaks in behind him. Not as soon as has he seen him. He sees him on the improper time when he’s celebrating. That’s the primary time he sees him, then he throws his arms up and down and tries responsible another person.”
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Villa return to motion on Wednesday night after they journey to Belgium to tackle Membership Brugge within the Champions League.
Prime of the desk earlier than Tuesday evening’s spherical of fixtures, Emery will likely be determined for his facet to proceed their unbeaten European run.
Nonetheless, given his poor efficiency on the weekend, it might be that Digne is dropped to the bench and exchange by summer-signing and former Chelsea full-back Ian Maatsen.
