And breathe Tottenham Hotspur fans.
Antonio Conte’s side survived a brutally exhausting encounter at Marseille in the Champions League last night.
Group D couldn’t have been tighter prior to kickoff and all four sides – along with Sporting and Eintracht Frankfurt – were going through at various stages of the evening.
But it was Tottenham who won the group and Hugo Lloris certainly did his part.
The France international has been under fire in recent weeks following a number of pretty shocking errors.
However, Lloris, a £12 million signing in 2012 [Mirror], pulled off one stunning save against the Ligue 1 outfit to keep Spurs in the game.
Chancel Mbemba would go on to opening the scoring minutes later, but it was still a vital intervention from the former Lyon stopper and here’s what Paul Merson said about it last night.
He said on Sky Sports [01/11, 8:36pm]: “What a save from Lloris! He hits it across goal and it looks like it’s going in. That was a proper save.”
Say what you like about Lloris, but he is a brilliant goalkeeper.
Yes, he’s committed some howlers in October, appropriately the month of Halloween, but he’s also capable of pulling off a worldie out of nowhere, like he did in France last night.
The likes of Clement Lenglet and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg will get the plaudits for ultimately scoring the goals which took Tottenham through to the next phase of the competition.
But don’t overlook Lloris’s role in that, either.
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