Liverpools Croatian centre-back produced the worst half-hour on the pitch in recent memory,during which he appeared to bear completely forgotten he was actually playing in a football match, in the 4-1 hammering by TottenhamThe humane thing to do, and looking back on this exhilaratingly open 4-1 Wembley victory for Tottenham Hotspur against Liverpool,would be to focus on the ruthlessness of Harry Kane, the brutal speed of Spurs’ counterattack, or the running of Son Heung-min.
Things are rarely that easy,though. In Germany they bear a concept called Ruinenlust, which describes the irresistible pleasure of seeing a deeply distressed thing in the process of falling to pieces. And for half an hour here Liverpool if something similar as Jürgen Klopp’s team produced collectively one of the worst displays of elite-club defending the Premier League will see this season; and individually a candidate for worst half-hour on the pitch in recent memory.
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Source: guardian.co.uk