{"id":533095,"date":"2023-10-26T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=533095"},"modified":"2023-10-26T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:00:33","slug":"destiny-udogie-is-the-player-tottenham-were-crying-out-for-agbonlahor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/destiny-udogie-is-the-player-tottenham-were-crying-out-for-agbonlahor\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny Udogie is the player ‘Tottenham were crying out for’ – Agbonlahor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gabby Agbonlahor<\/strong> has insisted Destiny Udogie has been a “revelation” for Tottenham and has “transformed” their defence alongside Micky van de Ven.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider<\/strong>, insisted the 20-year-old is the “perfect left-back” and has made just as big an impact as box-office summer arrivals James Maddison and Van de Ven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Udogie has started all nine of Tottenham’s Premier League games this season, grabbing two assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was withdrawn early in the second half of Spurs’ win over Fulham on Monday (23 October) – but Ange Postecoglou revealed<\/a> post-match that he was simply suffering from tiredness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That news will come as a relief for Tottenham fans ahead of their clash with Crystal Palace on Friday (27 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Udogie cost the Lilywhites a reported<\/a> fee of \u00a315million last year (2022) and spent the 2022-23 campaign on loan at ex-club Udinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has become a key man for Postecoglou’s side – who sit top of the Premier League after nine games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agbonlahor told Football Insider<\/strong>\u2019s Ewan Kingsbury: \u201cI really like Udogie.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve watched him a lot this season. He struggled initially with Saka in the derby, but in the second half – he was outstanding. Almost any left-back left one-on-one with Saka would struggle<\/em> but he owned him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s strong, he\u2019s quick, he\u2019s good on the ball, he can get into dangerous areas and get assists – he\u2019s the left-back and player Tottenham were crying out for.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s the perfect left-back because he\u2019s taller than the average, and he\u2019s strong and aggressive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, he\u2019s been a revelation alongside Van de Ven and they\u2019ve really transformed that defence, just as much as Maddison has transformed them at the other end\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Tottenham could sign Darwin Nunez ally in real bargain.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabby Agbonlahor has insisted Destiny Udogie has been a “revelation” for Tottenham and has “transformed” their defence alongside Micky van de Ven. The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, insisted the 20-year-old is the “perfect left-back” and has made just as big an impact as box-office summer arrivals James Maddison and Van …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":533131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[4,18923,231],"tags":[40],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533212,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533095\/revisions\/533212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}