Fraser Forster has been blasted for his role in Tottenham slipping to a draw at home to Wolves on Sunday.
After coming from behind to lead 2-1 at half-time, Spurs couldn’t see off the game in the second 45 minutes.
And late on, they were punished as Jorgen Strand Larsen blasted home at the near post in the 87th minute following some poor defending from Radu Dragusin.
Although it was a powerful effort, Forster will be frustrated at conceding a goal at his near post and former England international Stephen Warnock has criticised the stand-in goalkeeper for his efforts.
“Fraser Forster has been done near post. The run from Jorgen Strand Larsen is lovely, as is the pass from Rayan Ait Nouri, and Strand Larsen lashes the ball as hard as he can near post, top corner,” Warnock told BBC Final Score.
“Forster almost turns his back on it rather than standing tall and being brave. He should not be beaten from there.”
Ange Postecoglou comments on Spurs 2-2 Wolves
Spurs have now won just two of their last nine Premier League matches, slipping to 11th in the table, 11 points adrift of the Champions League places.
But Ange Postecoglou is trying his best to cut his players some slack, with Spurs suffering a chronic injury crisis this season — especially in defence.
“It’s a disappointing outcome,” Postecoglou said of Sunday’s result (via Football.London). “Obviously we went a goal down but after that, I felt we controlled the game. It wasn’t easy always to get openings but we did look pretty threatening every time we did get forward. We scored a couple of goals, we obviously missed the penalty and then second half, I just thought we had some really big moments to kill the game off.
“They weren’t really creating much, I mean I think Fraser had one save to make with his feet, that was about it. You felt we kind of needed that third goal and obviously they score at the end and you’re kind of left with a disappointing outcome, but it’s not through the want of trying. It’s obvious, you know, the lads are fairly fatigued, especially in that front third, we’re not as sharp as we can be, which is understandable because we’re asking a lot of a sort of small core group of players and, as I said, it’s not for the want of trying and they’re trying to get the outcomes for us.”
