Stephen Warnock claims Toby Alderweireld proved that he ‘doesn’t trust’ his Tottenham Hotspur teammate Hugo Lloris

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Tottenham Hotspur suffered a late defeat against Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday.

BBC Sport pundit Stephen Warnock has claimed that Toby Alderweireld proved during Tottenham Hotspur’s 2-1 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday that he ‘doesn’t trust’ his teammate Hugo Lloris.

The 2018 World Cup winner endured a difficult game at Anfield and was involved in the key moment of the match when the home team scored a 90th-minute winner after Lloris had failed to deal with Mo Salah’s tame header across goal.

Added with that, during the game, Lloris was struggling to find his own teammates when distributing the ball out from the back and, at one point, Alderweireld, who was running towards his own goal with Mo Salah bearing down on him, decided to put the ball out for a throw-in rather than take the simple option of passing back to his goalkeeper.

Speaking to Match of the Day 2 on BBC One (31/03/2019 at 10:50 pm), Warnock pointed out that Alderweireld incident and claimed that Lloris looked off his game from the first whistle.

“He [Lloris] looked shaky from the start and it wasn’t just the goal that was the problem for him,” Warnock told MOTD 2. “Early on in the game, he just didn’t look confident at all.

“This summed it up for me [Alderweireld running towards his own goal with Salah behind him and the option to pass to Lloris]. He [Alderweireld] is looking at him [Lloris] thinking ‘do I play it back to Lloris?’ Then you have the option to go out. He doesn’t trust Lloris. He plays it out [for a throw-in] because he doesn’t want to play there [to Lloris].”

In the game itself, Roberto Firmino opened the scoring early in the first half before the game truly opened up after the break when the away team were successfully attacking with more intent.

It was becoming an end-to-end game, which was suiting Spurs and they duly equalised through Lucas Moura after 70 minutes to the delight of the away supporters.

Jurgen Klopp then opted to stick four players up front which left achers of space in behind and following a counter-attack, Moussa Sissoko missed a clear opportunity to net the winner.

The North London club were punished in the 90th minute when Salah’s header across goal was not cleanly caught by Lloris, with the ball sneaking over the line after hitting Alderweireld.