It’s not often you can place an entire defeat at the feet of one player, but it’s hard to do anything else to Hugo Lloris after Sweden beat France at the death on Friday. The two European countries were locked at 1-1 in their World Cup qualifying match when Lloris had a brain fart so robust it could clear out an entire movie theater.
With the seconds ticking away in stoppage time, the Tottenham goalkeeper collected a back pass, dribbled out of his box and fired what appeared to be a pass or clearance up the field. Whatever it was, it didn’t work.