The Spurs captain Hugo Lloris rushed over to confront the forward as the teams went in for half time, though they did end up taking all three points.
The goalkeeper explains his clash with Heung-min Son at half time of Tottenham’s win against Everton on Monday was because he was annoyed at the forward’s lack of pressing. Spurs got back on track with a 1-0 win, as Michael Keane was so unfortunate to find his own net in first half that proved the highlight of an averagely cloudy match.
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Richarlison was presented with a chance to equalize just before half time break on to be denied by the brilliant French goalkeeper.
As the teams walked off, he rushed over to confront Son, with the two players having to be held apart by their teammates.
The duo made up before the second half and Lloris played the incident down as an outburst in the heat of the moment.
“It belongs to the changing room,” Lloris spoke to Sky Sports.
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“Outside you can say whatever you want. There is a lot of respect between players in the changing room.”
“What happened between me and Sonny is just something that is part of football sometimes. But there’s no problem at all.”
“You could see at the end of the game we were more than happy to be part of the team and to have the three points.”
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“To concede a chance a few seconds before half time because we don’t press properly…yeah, it annoyed me, but it’s part of football. We move on.”
Jose Mourinho, despite the confrontation, was glad to see tempers burning between his players.
After their 3-1 loss at Sheffield united, he lamented a ‘disturbing’ lack of desire from his team.
Spurs move up to eighth, but still face a battle to catch the likes of Manchester United and Wolves in the European places.
“As I said before, we are in a situation that we need to fight against,” Lloris added
“We’re not happy to be in this position. But the most important thing today is to stay focused on the team and do everything to finish as high as we can.”
“I repeat, we can only do it as a team. When you play like one it’s very easy to fall apart as a team, to think about disinterest, but today we showed that we are still together and ready to compete and fight until the end.”
