5 most hilarious individual mistakes in the Premier League this season

#3 Dejan Lovren vs. Tottenham Hotspur

The October clash between Tottenham and Liverpool was built up as one of the season’s biggest games to that point, but it turned into a one-sided hammering and it was largely down to one man – Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren.

In a performance that bad, it’s hard to pinpoint one key error. Lovren was so terrible that manager Jurgen Klopp substituted him on 31 minutes.

So where to start? Well, Lovren looked shaky to begin with but realistically, the game was all over after just 12 minutes, thanks to two Spurs goals largely caused by the Croatian.

Firstly he completely missed a chipped pass from Keiran Trippier – turning a simple problem into a deadly one, and Harry Kane was allowed to run onto the ball, round the keeper and score an easy goal.

Just eight minutes later things got worse – a long throw from Hugo Lloris was totally misjudged by Lovren, who let the ball skid past his head directly into the path of Kane, who then sprinted through Liverpool’s defence – missing one of their central defenders of course – and crossed for Heung-Min Son to score a second.

Lovren was hauled off twenty minutes later, but the damage was already done and Tottenham ran out 4-1 winners.

In an even bigger shock, despite claiming he could’ve defended better wearing trainers, Klopp has stuck with Lovren and he remains one of Liverpool’s first-choice centre-backs.