Richarlison Leads Spurs to Victory with Double Against Newcastle

‘Pipa’ Higuaín said, back in 2010, that one day Ruud van Nistelrooy told him: “Goals are like ketchup, sometimes they don’t come out no matter how hard you try and then they all come at once.” Not knowing if Mickey van de Ven, compatriot of the former Real Madrid striker, has done the same with Richarlison, the Brazilian is beginning to verify that the ketchup theory may be true.

After last weekend’s double against Newcastle, the Canarinha striker opened the scoring at the City Ground and led the Spurs to a victory that allows them to tie on 33 points with Manchester City. With Pep Guardiola’s pupils focused on the Mundialito, where they will face the Japanese Urawa Reds, Ange Postecoglou’s pupils have taken the opportunity to put even more pressure on the current Premier League champion.

Although if there is someone who was in charge of pushing the boat, for Richarlison and for himself, it was Dejan Kulusevski. The Swede, with an assist and a goal, was the face of the Tottenham coin. Instead, the cross was once again Yves Bissouma, sent off for the second time this season and leaving a team even more depleted in which injuries continue to take their toll. Of course, no one drops the north London team from the fight for the Champions League places.

Another by Richarlison

It was not the most comfortable game for Tottenham. Injuries hit Spurs in the run-up to the duel against Nottingham Forest, with the loss of Giovani Lo Celso, and during the same match. Brennan Johnson, who returned to what was his home for the first time since his signing for the London team in the summer (55 million euros), suffered a spectacular blow to the head that forced him to leave the field of play before time.

The injury to the visiting ’22’, added to the step ahead of the tricky trees, left Ange Postecoglou’s team ‘groggy’. Nottingham Forest had made the two best approaches of the first half, forcing Guglielmo Vicario to intervene on both occasions. The hosts increased their speed and verticality, and the London team’s defense began to suffer. Then, when Steve Cooper’s team was most comfortable, Richarlison showed that forwards live in streaks.

Dejan Kulusevski, the most outstanding player of the first 45 minutes for both the visitors and the locals, put a measured ball to the head of the Brazilian ‘9’. An exquisite candy that, although days ago Richarlison would have wasted seeing his poor success in front of goal, the double scored against Newcastle last weekend allowed him to head into the back of the net to, in the 47th minute, win the 0 -1 at the City Ground.

Postecoglou is left without players

Everything that didn’t happen in the first half took place during the second. Everything, except the performance of Dejan Kulusevski, who signed, for 90 minutes, one of his best performances with the Spurs jersey. Anthony Elanga’s goal before the hour mark that made the fiefdom of the tricky trees dream did not go up on the scoreboard due to the former Manchester United player’s illegal position, but that of Tottenham’s Swedish attacker did.

In his role as a striker, Dejan Kulusevski was decisive in generating offensive football, assisting Richarlison and, in the 65th minute of the second half, scoring the 0-2 score. With the help of Matt Turner, who first gave him the ball from behind and then put his hands too soft in his attempt to save the visiting player’s powerful shot, the Swede scored his goal of the league season.

But since Ange Postecoglou took the reins of the London team there has been no quiet game, and Yves Bissouma made sure that the match against Nottingham Forest was no exception. The Ivorian’s harsh tackle was reviewed by the VAR and he saw a straight red card. Second expulsion of the season which, on this occasion, will keep him away from the playing fields for three days in the midst of a flurry of matches in the Premier League. Steve Cooper’s men locked up the Spurs during the final stretch of the game, where Guglielmo Vicario made one of the saves of the season and prevented the tricky trees from closing the gap on the scoreboard.

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Changes

Oliver Skipp (31′, Brennan Johnson), Chris Wood (67′, Willy-Arnaud Boly), Danilo (67′, Cheikhou Kouyaté), Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (71′, Richarlison), Callum Hudson-Odoi (82′, Orel Mangala), Emerson Royal (87′, Son Heung-Min), Alejo Veliz (98′, Dejan Kulusevski)

Goals

0-1, 46′: Richarlison0-2, 64′: Dejan Kulusevski

Cards

Arbitro: Jarred Gillett
Arbitro VAR: Michael Oliver, Wade Smith
Iyenoma Destiny Udogie (41′, Yellow) Pope Sarr (53′, Yellow) Yves Bissouma (69′,Roja) Ben Davies (72′, Yellow) Heung-Min Son (78′, Yellow) Murillo (81′, Yellow) Harry Toffolo (89′, Yellow)

Classification Classification PT PJ PG PE PP 14

19
16
5
4
7

15

16
16
4
4
8

16

14
17
3
5
9

17

13
16
7
2
7

18

9
16 2 3 11 Classification PT PJ PG PE PP 3

35
16
11
2
3

4

33
16
10
3
3

5

33
17
10
3
4

6

27
16
9
0
7

7

26
16
8
2
6
2023-12-15 22:05:34
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