Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur drew with Real Madrid in the Champions League this week.
Tottenham Hotspur star Hugo Lloris is one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and he proved that against Real Madrid this week.
Lloris was superb for Tottenham in their Champions League match against Madrid away from home at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday evening.
The France international goalkeeper made a memorable save against Madrid striker Karim Benzema, as the match finished in a 1-1 draw.
Former Arsenal attacking midfielder Paul Merson was following the match, and he seems to have played down Lloris’s save.
Merson has suggested that France international striker Benzema should have scored, and that it was a bad miss from the 29-year-old striker.
“In Spain against Real, they rode their luck a bit, and don’t tell me it was a great save from Hugo Lloris because that was a rotten miss by Karim Benzema,” Merson wrote in The Daily Star. “He has to score.”
Benzema did not have a great game against Tottenham and he should have scored, but at the same time it would not be fair to undermine Lloris’s heroics in keeping him out.
The Frenchman showed agility, flexibility and awareness, qualities which make him one of the best goalkeepers on the planet.
The 30-year-old has been on the books of Tottenham since the summer of 2012 when he joined from Lyon for a transfer fee reported by BBC Sport to be worth £11.8 million.
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