It was a very mixed night for Tanguy Ndombele at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday.
The France international opened the scoring in Spurs’ EFL Cup clash away to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Tottenham wound up drawing the game 2-2 – and later progressing on penalties – and both of the goals conceded stemmed from Ndombele errors.
First, the former Lyon midfielder was easily beaten in the air by Leander Dendoncker from a corner, before Ndombele was then dispossesed cheaply en route to Wolves equalising.
And Nuno has admitted that he was ‘disappointed’ with the first goal they conceded, of which the Frenchman was largely at fault.
He said to Football London: “I’m disappointed with the set piece. We cannot allow it because the momentum changes, the atmosphere changes and in the second half it wasn’t as we wanted which like you say the first half was really good.”
Erratic
Ndombele also had a pretty mixed display in the 3-0 defeat by Chelsea in the Premier League last weekend.
Nuno was right to bring the 24-year-old back into his plans because on form, he is a devastating player.
But every good thing that Ndombele does on the field is usually negated by something negative at the moment and it goes back to consistency.
Tottenham are away to Arsenal in the North London derby on Sunday and you really don’t know what you’re going to get from Ndombele.
Actually, because of his last two appearances, he isn’t even guaranteed to start and that fact alone prompts the belief that at £63 million, he hasn’t been worth the money for the Lilywhites since 2019.
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