Jamie Carragher labelled Yves Bissouma as ‘braindead’ after the Tottenham midfielder gave away a costly penalty against Chelsea.
Tottenham flew out of the traps at home against their London rivals, with early goals from Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski putting them two goals ahead after 11 minutes.
Jadon Sancho’s superb long-range strike gave Chelsea hope at the break and Enzo Maresca’s side continued to grow into the game after the interval.
However, the Blues were given a gift when Bissouma gave away a penalty after flying recklessly into a challenge on Moises Caicedo.
Cole Palmer duly converted from the spot and later added a second penalty when he was bundled over clumsily by Pape Matar Sarr as Chelsea earned an impressive 4-3 win to move four points behind Liverpool.
Analysing the two penalties at full-time, pundits Carragher and Jamie Redknapp did not hold back in their critique of the Spurs duo.
‘Some of the things Tottenham players do is absolutely ridiculous,’ Carragher told Sky Sports when asked about Bissouma’s foul on Caicedo.
‘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.’
And the former Tottenham midfielder was equally scathing in his criticism of Sarr’s challenge on Palmer later in the second half.
‘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. That’s two ill-disciplined [tackles] from your two defensive midfield players.’
Posting on social media after the game, Bissouma apologised for letting down his teammates and fans and said: ‘I’m so sad for that mistake it’s burning me because we lost the game today from this mistake.
‘I feel sorry for my teammates staff and fans I take all the responsibility for that one I’ll learn from this one it’s time now to show the real me. Thanks for all the support.’
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