2016-11-20 ~ NGSOCCERLIVE

Former Liverpool defender Nicol has said Tottenham Hotspur have simply been lucky this season.

Despite huge odds against Spurs, Nicol said the Blues opponents can savage a point as they are draw masters.

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"If there is a team that wants to pay these
figures then fine, but they are exaggerated,"
he told reporters. "These valuations aren't
real.

"I don't believe that any player can be worth
€90m or €100m, in the cases of Belotti and
Pogba. If they were, they would be able to
score four goals per game and win by

themselves.
"If I played these days rather than 20 years
ago, I would also have been valued at
€100m for my characteristics.

"If one day Belotti leaves, the most
important thing is that we would rebuild the
team with the money that we would get for
him.

"But hopefully he will stay for at least as
long as I am at Torino."

Sevilla team believes Mark Clattenburg's decisions cost them a good result against Juventus, a decision Nico Pareja also described the officiating as ‘wiping out our work’.

“We had taken the lead and were playing really well against the Italian team, but the refereesunk us with two absurd decisions,” Vitolo told BeIn Sports.

“The second yellow card for Franco Vazquez was absolutely ridiculous and giving a penalty right before half-time for a foul that wasn’t so bad really took the wind out of us.

“It’s a shame to lose like this, because without
those incidents we certainly would’ve seen a
different game. The referee changed it.”
Defender Pareja – who opened the scoring with a low strike from outside the area in the ninth minute – also expressed his disbelief at the decisions.

“We lost against a strong opponent, but they
were also fortunate in the incidents,” the 32-
year-old told Spanish reporters.

“The Vazquez red card was exaggerated, because he didn’t deserve a second yellow. The referee wiped out our work with two decisions that channelled the match in a certain direction.

“The penalty seemed very dubious to me,
because I was marking Patrice Evra, not Bonucci,
but frankly the shirt tug did not seem
excessive."