Alan Brazil hits out at Tottenham Hotspur defender who is like ‘Porridge’ after defeat to Manchester City

Follow us on Google Discover

Tottenham Hotspur’s biggest issue in recent months has been their inability to keep clean sheets.

This new style of play Ange Postecoglou has brought to the table has lifted the fans, made them exciting to watch and shown that the future is bright from an attacking sense.

But that fearless nature in which Tottenham attack, how the fullbacks bomb forward and play as number 10s, and the speed in which the forward line plays, comes with its disadvantages – only two home clean sheets in 19.

One of them is the Spurs backline has to defend a lot of open space, especially when they play so high up the pitch and have to defend a lot of one-v-ones.

Whilst some players, such as the reliant Micky van de Ven, have shown that they are capable of doing that, and with ease at times.

You can’t count everyone else in it, including a certain marmite-like figure in Pedro Porro, who gave away a late penalty against Manchester City after he fouled Jeremy Doku in the area.

Alan Brazil hit out at the 24-year-old and how he ‘does my head in’ following that 2-0 loss to Pep Guardiola’s side, as he told talkSPORT.

Porro is someone who has been heavily criticised before, especially by a certain Tim Sherwood, in fact, he went after the right-back straight after his first game.

But talkSPORT host Brazil clearly doesn’t like what he sees with Porro, either, and shared a nickname that he has for him.

Pedro Porro’s defending for Tottenham

“That Porro does my head in,” said Brazil with McCoist laughing in the background. “I am not kidding. Porridge I call him. He does my head in. He is so frustrating.

“He gets in great positions. I am thinking ‘what have you done that for, seriously?’”

Tottenham need cover

Spurs simply can’t go into next season with Porro as their number-one right-back and Emerson Royal as a backup – Sources have told HITC that Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr have expressed interest in the Brazil star.

The latter isn’t deemed good enough and Porro can’t be trusted to go a whole campaign and not make any defensive mistakes.

READ MORE: Tottenham’s £15m misfit is ‘so good’ he can play for ‘most teams in the world’

That’s why serious competition needs to be added via the transfer market because, if the team is crawling over the Premier League finishing line without European football.

Then imagine how the players will perform, especially towards the final months of the season, when they have Europe to contend with next season.