'Playing in his garden': Gabriel Agbonlahor says £12m Spurs ace didn't take the Arsenal game seriously enough

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Tottenham suffered yet another poor result on Wednesday evening as they lost 2-1 to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal completed the double over Spurs after their 1-0 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this season.

Tottenham weren't good enough against Arsenal, and, as you can imagine, the knives were out after the game as a number of Spurs players were blamed for poor performances.

Radu Dragusin was criticised after the game, while Rio Ferdinand criticised Antonin Kinsky for playing too slowly.

Speaking on TalkSPORT, Gabriel Agbonlahor has also criticised Kinsky for how he approached this game, claiming that the goalkeeper looked as though he was playing in his garden at times rather than in a north London derby.

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Antonin Kinsky criticised for Arsenal performance

Agbonlahor laid into a number of Tottenham players.

The pundit said that Yves Bissouma, Pape Sarr, Dejan Kulusevski and Heung-Min Son all weren't good enough, while he also criticised Kinsky.

This was Kinsky's first league game for Spurs after his £12m move from Slavia Prague.

"Sarr and Bissouma were very poor. Kulusevski wasn't at it, Son, he got muscled off the ball by Timber, he wasn't at it. Defensively too, Dragusin, the goalkeeper, Kinsky, I don't know where to start with him. He was just taking him time like he was playing in his garden, overall watching the game it was like Spurs didn't treat it like a derby."

Antonin Kinsky stats vs Arsenal

Agbonlahor criticised Kinsky for taking too long on the ball, and the stats show that his distribution was rather strange during this game.

Indeed, Kinsky took his time over a lot of his passes, and ended up going long a lot of the time.

Kinsky attemped 15 long balls in this game, in comparison, Guglielmo is averaging just 2.3 long balls per game.

Tottenham are usually a team that want to get the game moving quickly and play short quick passes out from the back, but Kinsky played at a strange pace, and looked to knock it long.

As Agbonlahor says, the goalkeeper didn't seem to realise what sort of occasion the north London derby was, but it's hard to blame him considering this was his Premier League debut.

Kinsky has a lot to learn, that's for sure.