Thomas Frank will be furious with Tottenham player after what he did during first-half of Brighton clash

Thomas Frank will be furious with what he saw from one of his players during Tottenham’s clash with Brighton on Saturday. Frank’s men went into the game on the back of a hard-worked win over Villarreal in the Champions League during the week, but the Seagulls have proven themselves tricky customers, as they so often are.

Yankuba Minteh put Brighton ahead with a breakaway goal, rounding Vicario before tapping home, and Yasin Ayari scored with an unstoppable strike from some way outside the box before Richarlison got Spurs back into the game with a scrappy goal just before half time.

The second Brighton goal came from Lucas Bergvall’s rushed and thoughtless clearance, but with the resulting strike coming from so far out, Spurs will feel as though it is an easier goal to take, but the same can’t be said of the opener.

Minteh was allowed to run clean through on goal from virtually the halfway line after Brighton exposed their high line, and it looked as though it was Destiny Udogie who failed to pick up the breaking Minteh.

But what was worse, and what will drive Frank up the wall is the fact Udogie appeared to chase down Minteh before letting up a little when the striker approached Vicario. The striker rounded the keeper, and Udogie remained at half pace while Cristian Romero made a lung-busting run from the halfway line to try to catch up, albeit he fell short.

At this level of football, you have to give maximum effort until the conclusion of the play. You don’t know where an opportunity may lie, and given Minteh rounded the keeper, there was half a chance Udogie could have disrupted the forward in some way had he sprinted all the way and not hit the brake on his way back.

Of course, even if Udogie had sprinted all the way through, there is a chance that it would have been a lost cause, but this is Premier League football. You have to follow through and show that desire until the whistle blows or the keeper picks the ball up. Frank won’t be happy with that lack of application.