{"id":176619,"date":"2024-04-29T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/29\/tottenhams-best-and-worst-players-in-north-london-derby-defeat\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:46:58","slug":"tottenhams-best-and-worst-players-in-north-london-derby-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/29\/tottenhams-best-and-worst-players-in-north-london-derby-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham\u2019s best and worst players in north London derby defeat \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>At around 3pm on Sunday, it looked like Tottenham Hotspur may be set to endure a record-breaking defeat at the hands of Arsenal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spirited second half performance, while it couldn\u2019t prevent the defeat, did at least make the scoreline much more respectable however, with goals from Cristian Romero and Heung-min Son leading to a mere narrow 3-2 defeat in the north London derby.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s\u00a0Tottenham\u2019s\u00a0best and worst players in the defeat to arch rivals Arsenal, according to\u00a0<em>90min\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>esteemed player ratings.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"_crhf7pz7x\">Tottenham\u2019s best player vs Arsenal<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cristian Romero: 7\/10<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hwjydybzajpscatjmn.jpg\" alt=\"Cristian Romero\" title=\"Cristian Romero\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Romero scored \/ Chris Brunskill\/Fantasista\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<p>Cristian Romero\u2019s rather odd decision to play as a de-facto striker against Arsenal, surprisingly, hugely benefited his team on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine hit the crossbar in the first half, got his side back into the game at the start of the second half by scoring a well-deserved goal. After cutting out a David Raya clearance, Romero the side-footed into the bottom corner like a prime Gabriel Batistuta.<\/p>\n<p>Along with threatening in the final third, Romero \u2013 despite conceding three goals \u2013 actually didn\u2019t do too badly in the defensive third either. The centre-back won a very impressive 11 duels during the game, and completed 97% of his passes too.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"_3rmgpegdm\">Tottenham\u2019s worst player vs Arsenal<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg: 4\/10<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hwjycq02bsqk2cewg1.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Emile Hojbjerg\" title=\"Pierre Emile Hojbjerg\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Own goal \/ Chloe Knott \u2013 Danehouse\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham fans feared the worst when they saw Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg\u2019s name in the starting lineup on Sunday, and that\u2019s exactly what they got just 15 minutes into the game when the midfielder headed into the back of his own net to gift Arsenal the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Hojbjerg\u2019s performance levels didn\u2019t really improve much thereafter either as he was regularly chasing shadows in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p>A bad day at the office.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dishonourable mention<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ben Davies: 4\/10<\/h3>\n<p>The Wales full-back had the unenviable task of going up against Bukayo Saka on the flank on Sunday and, as expected, he struggled up against Arsenal\u2019s \u2018Starboy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Davies was bested by Saka in the first half, with the full-back allowing his adversary to drift in on his favoured left foot to curl home the Gunners\u2019 second goal of the game \u2013 a rather egregious error considering how well-documented Saka\u2019s fondness of cutting in on his left foot has been.<\/p>\n<p>He did make up for his earlier a bit by putting his body on the line to win a penalty kick off of Declan Rice late in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 3pm on Sunday, it looked like Tottenham Hotspur may be set to endure a record-breaking defeat at the hands of Arsenal. A spirited second half performance, while it couldn\u2019t prevent the defeat, did at least make the scoreline much more respectable however, with goals from Cristian Romero and Heung-min Son leading to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tottenham\u2019s best and worst players in north London derby defeat \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/29\/tottenhams-best-and-worst-players-in-north-london-derby-defeat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tottenham\u2019s best and worst players in north London derby defeat \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At around 3pm on Sunday, it looked like Tottenham Hotspur may be set to endure a record-breaking defeat at the hands of Arsenal. 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