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Graham Roberts comments on Tottenham’s defeat and Lionel Messi

Former player Graham Roberts has shared his reaction to Tottenham’s defeat against Barcelona on Twitter.

The club legend believes that Tottenham paid for their mistakes against the Catalan giants. He also praised Lionel Messi for his outstanding display against the Londoners.

The former Spurs player also suggested that someone should have man-marked Messi out of the game.

Roberts’ tweet read:

I have to say what a player MESSI IS he totally dominated the game , but the goals we gave away were all mistakes by us

— Graham Roberts (@GrahamRoberts4) October 3, 2018

I agree think I would have man marked him and played 10 v 10

— Graham Roberts (@GrahamRoberts4) October 4, 2018

The Argentine scored a brace at Wembley and he was unplayable for most parts of the game.