Favourite team-mates and toughest opponents have become staple questions of the lockdown interview.
When asked the latter by Rio Ferdinand on behalf of Copa90, Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli named Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante and Real Madrid’s Isco as the best players he has directly come up against.
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via ytCropperAs a tireless ball-winning machine, the best that the Premier League has seen during Dele’s career, Kante makes sense as the perfect foil for a roaming No.10, but Isco is, to Dele’s own admission, a slight surprise.
The Spaniard, consistently linked to Spurs since 2016, as The Independent details, has had one of those careers where he has played at the top level for nearly a despite only have one or two good seasons.
Clearly a good player who’d have been a coup for Spurs at any point in the last four years, but not ‘toughest opponent’ material, surely?
Dele must have faced him during one of those purple patches.
