Igor Tudor's Magical Swap: Archie Gray Surpasses Jordan Henderson in Merseyside Blues Defense!
Tudor is under immense pressure as Spurs interim boss going into Sunday’s trip to Anfield
Igor Tudor has hinted Tottenham will stick with a back-three for Sunday's trip to Liverpool , with "beautiful guy" Archie Gray in line to play centre-back. A feature of Tudor's disastrous four-match tenure at Spurs has been his tendency to put square pegs in round holes, with midfielder Joao Palhinha and right-back Pedro Porro used out of position in the Croatian's favoured 3-4-2-1 formation. Palhinha played centre-back in Tudor's debut 4-1 loss to Arsenal and Porro was used there for last week's worrying home defeat to Crystal Palace .
Even though Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Palhinha are absent at Anfield, the 47-year-old looks likely to keep faith with a three-man defence. Asked about Gray during a tense press conference on Friday, when Tudor urged Spurs not to be "victims" and to choose whether to "cry or fight" their way out of a club-record six-match losing streak, the caretaker boss hinted he would play in another new position. Archie Gray is in line to play at centre-back with Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Palhinha all absent (Getty Images) Gray has played right-wing-back, left-back and central midfield during Tudor's terrible reign , but could get the nod at centre-back along with Kevin Danso and Radu Dragusin for a daunting fixture at Liverpool.
"That's the problem. He needs to every game change the position," Tudor said about Gray. "(Sunday) again.
Four games here, four positions for Archie Gray. He's an amazing player, but that (constant change) means that something's wrong. "Beautiful guy, beautiful player.