Peltier no way. Have you seen his defending for Spurs first goal? He was ten yards out of position screening Ajayi from the invisible man.
Why the hell he was picked in the first place is beyond me. How old is he, 34? He wasnt PL class during his peak years, how is he going to be now?
Allardyce's team selection at Spurs was ridiculous. He needs to sort his head out.
Peltier was not at fault - the blame lay with Ajayi who tried to reorganise to his natural position during the middle of a Spurs attack rather than waiting until the move had fizzled out - honourable mention to Sawyers who missed Kane playing off his shoulder.
If you watch the goal again - the ball goes wide to Davies who is being marked by Peltier. Son makes a run down the channel which is covered by Ajayi. Absolutely no issue here.
Davies cuts inside as a result of Peltier's pressure and plays a pass to Hoijberg.
Davies then runs into the space vacated by Ajayi and Peltier quite rightly tracks his run and in effect becomes the centre half.
Ajayi decides to come into his the centre half position and ends up standing behind Peltier. Hoijberg then plays a pass into the space which Ajayi and Sawyers should have covered.
The lack of game awareness from Ajayi is appalling - the space had been covered by Peltier - all he needed to do was remain switched on and alert to Harry Kane. We see out the move and then reorganise. Not bleedin' reorganise when they're ten yards outside our penalty area.
Lack of awareness, lack of communication, yet again. You can make the case that Ajayi should have been rollocking Sawyers to get goalside given Peltier had tracked his runner.
This forum hammers our full backs for not tracking the midfield runners and no sooner one of them does they are then blamed for being out of position.