WE WANTED TO CELEBRATE SPECIAL GOAL MOUR
LUCAS MOURA admits it is bittersweet Tottenham cannot celebrate Erik Lamela’s ‘unbelievable’ goal against Arsenal after they eventually went on to lose 2-1.
Lamela came off the bench to replace the injured Heung-min Son and opened the scoring in Sunday’s north London derby with a sublime Rabona finish which even left some of his own team-mates agog.
But the Argentinian went from hero to zero as he was sent off in the second half, picking up two yellow cards in six minutes after Spurs had fallen behind. A deflected Martin Odegaard effort and an Alexandre Lacazette penalty proved enough for Arsenal.
‘It was an unbelievable goal,’ said Moura. ‘I think he has already scored a goal like this but in a derby it is special and he is an amazing player. He does this in training all of the time but we are unlucky we didn’t win the game because with this goal, if we had won, it would have been even more special.’
Moura also echoed the sentiments of Spurs boss Jose Mourinho, who bemoaned a poor opening from his side. ‘We started the game too passive, too slow,’ the Brazilian added.
‘In this type of game we need to have more desire, to press them higher but we didn’t do this but it is finished, it has happened and we cannot make the same mistakes again.
‘The feeling is bad because we are leading the game 1-0 but we started the game too slow. We started with no intensity and we could have conceded more goals in the first half. But in the last 15/20 minutes we were good, we should have started like that.’