Jamie Carragher and Jamie Redknapp were scathing in their criticism of one Tottenham player for a moment of madness during Sunday’s 4-3 defeat to Chelsea.
Spurs made the perfect start to the game, capitalising on two mistakes from Marc Cucurella to establish a 2-0 lead after just 11 minutes.
The Blues hit back through Jadon Sancho before Yves Bissouma recklessly flew into a tackle on Moises Caicedo in the penalty area.
The midfielder got none of the ball as Caicedo went tumbling over and the referee did not hesitate to award the stonewall penalty.
Cole Palmer dispatched the spot-kick and his side went on to win the game and move up to second.
And Sky pundits Carragher and Redknapp both agreed that Bissouma’s challenge was ‘ridiculous’.
Yves Bissouma gave away a penalty when he flew into a challenge on Moises Caicedo
Caicedo went flying and the referee did not hesitate to point towards the penalty spot
Jamie Redknapp labelled the challenge ‘braindead’ during Sky’s post-match coverage
Carragher said: ‘Some of the things Tottenham players do is absolutely ridiculous. It’s a certain penalty. That is absolutely braindead. Who’d be a manager?’
Redknapp added: ‘Caicedo when he went central just started to run the game. Bissouma had 27 seconds of madness.
‘He’s not showing enough pace to get back in there. He dives into a ridiculous tackle. Absolutely ridiculous.’
Redknapp was also critical of Pape Matar Sarr for his foul on Palmer which gave Chelsea a second penalty.
‘You know how skilful he [Palmer] is,’ he said. That is so clumsy, that is so bad because this was the moment that cost them the game. Ridiculous challenge, you just cost your team,’ Redknapp said.
‘That’s two ill-disciplined [tackles] from your two defensive midfield players.’
Carragher also had some strong words for Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou.
‘Unless he makes this team hard to beat, he won’t win anything,’ the former Liverpool defender added.
‘When I hear a manager say, ‘we play the same way [no matter what]’, it’s nonsense, it’s absolute rubbish.’
Jamie Redknapp also thought it was a ‘ridiculous’ challenge for the Spurs midfielder to make
Carragher continued: ‘He [Postecoglou] said something in his interview there about how well they played. He said, ‘when we’re at our best we cause teams problems’.
‘I can’t imagine any manager I played for for Liverpool, if we conceded four in a game, would say in the interview that we played well.
‘I’ve never been able to get my head around certain managers who say, ‘we play a certain way and we will never change’.
‘There’s this idea, this pure game, the Tottenham fans saying they’ve got their Tottenham back. You won’t win anything. You won’t challenge, [or] do anything.