Micky Hazard loves Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli, even if he has gone backwards a little bit.
Micky Hazard has admitted on talkSPORT that Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli is not performing to his usual high standards yet this season.
The 21-year-old has two goals and one assist in seven Premier League games but there is a sense on the whole that Alli is not as influential as previous seasons.
The England ace has been making headlines for the wrong reasons as much as he has the right reasons and was given a one-match ban by FIFA last week for his middle-fingered salute on the pitch against Slovakia last month.
In addition that, the former MK Dons starlet picked up a yellow card in Tottenham’s win at Huddersfield Town this past weekend for diving to win a penalty.
And although Spurs legend Hazard admits he has the “prospensity to do something silly”, he says he wouldn’t change him for the world.
“He’s not as good as he has been,” said Hazard on TalkSPORT. “But he creates goals, scores goals, the most difficult things in football and he’s one of my favourite players.
“He’s arrogant, he struts his stuff on the pitch in a way that’s so hard to teach. He has the propensity to do something silly but I wouldn’t change him for the world.
“He looks like he’s playing football down the park with his mates.”
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