Was very sharp from the off today and deserved his goals for the work rate throughout. Hopefully this is the catalyst for a goal scoring run of form from him - boy could we do with it!
Got to give him credit for what he did today. Excellent at putting defenders under pressure (which he always does) and made good runs to take his goals. Hopefully he'll have some confidence to fire him to new heights now.
Not sure anyone should be looking to stick one up to any critics yet given that he's had one good game. It's still 4 league goals in 40 games.
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou was full of praise for Richarlison, who had only scored one Premier League goal this season before this game.
"Richy was great, really important. Him and Pape [Matar Sarr] coming back in gave us some real energy and we were really going to need that today.
"Richy was important to us at the start of the year too, but he wasn't fully fit. He was kind of restricted in his movements. At times, we had to play him at wide to get him through games.
"Since he has come back, he feels a lot better physically. It wasn't just his goals, his general work-rate, his energy and physicality were very good for us."
On using Richarlison as a striker rather than out wide, he added: "It's just because Richy is healthy now. I think that's his best position, through the middle.
"Also, looking at the last few weeks, our best chances have gone to the wide players. Sonny is still our best finisher and I thought getting him back out on the left would give us some more avenues to score goals. He set the tone early on and the lads fed off that."
Impressed by his quality and decisiveness in possession today. My issue has always been when he receives deeper he struggles. Link play and progression were fantastic. Deserved his goals. When a player puts in the effort and clearly cares as much as he does, I’ll always have all the patience in the world with them. Richy definitely does.
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