Dele Alli did not look entirely comfortable in the Sky studio on Monday night — awkward, as his team lost 6-0 — but on the Chelsea penalty debacle, he was dead right.
“In that last big game, when the pressure was on, I didn’t see them all fighting to take it then,” he said. “It’s all right when it’s 4-0 and you want to get on the scoresheet, but if you want to do that as a striker, don’t try in an unpressurised situation.”
He was talking about Chelsea’s match with Manchester United on April 4. The game in which they went from 2-0 up to 3-2 down before earning a penalty in stoppage time. Nicolas Jackson was on the field, Noni Madueke had just
