DE GEA LAMBASTED OVER LEVELLER

DAVID DE GEA was severely criticised for trying to save Che Adams’s equaliser with his feet. ‘What De Gea’s doing going with his feet for in those circumstances I do not know,’ Glenn Hoddle said. ‘He makes a lot of good saves with his feet from reactions in the six-yard box or if it’s a corner. But what on earth he’s going with his feet for from that angle I do not understand.

‘If he lays his legs down on the near post and goes across he saves it. I did think at the time, “What a good finish. How did he get that round him?” But second time I saw it I thought, “That’s the reason why.”’

Hoddle’s BT Sport colleague Paul Scholes said: ‘I agree, it felt like a funny angle to score from, and I didn’t expect the keeper to be going with his legs. It’s a simple one to the side. He can probably catch it there or tip it round the post. Much more chance of saving it with his arms rather than his legs.’