Richarlison’s second-half penalty gave Tottenham a 1-0 dwelling win over AZ Alkmaar to keep up their 100 per cent document within the Europa League.
The Brazilian scored his first aim of the season to make it three wins from three within the competitors for Ange Postecoglou’s facet, who sit second within the 36-team league desk behind leaders Lazio on aim distinction.
There was a short argument between James Maddison and Richarlison over the taking of the penalty with Spurs’ stand-in captain finally handing the ball to the striker, who transformed down the center within the 53rd minute.
Postecoglou admitted in his post-match press convention that he “wasn’t bothered” by the deliberation and praised Maddison’s “great decision” to permit Richarlison to take the penalty.
However whereas Richarlison received off the mark on his first begin of the season, the frustration continues for fellow attacker Timo Werner who wasted two probabilities within the first half and was substituted for Brennan Johnson at half-time.
The German has not scored in his final 16 Spurs appearances and the participant who took up his place on the left within the second half, Mikey Moore, was electrical.
The 17-year-old academy graduate impressed an improved second half which noticed Spurs win a penalty when Lucas Bergvall was introduced down by Maxim Dekker with the spot-kick scored by Richarlison.
Fraser Forster made an excellent save late on to disclaim Mayckel Lahdo, however any hope of a comeback for the Dutch facet was extinguished within the eighty fifth minute when David Moller Wolfe was despatched off for a second reserving.
There was to be no aim on Troy Parrott’s Spurs return after he joined AZ in the summertime as Spurs made it back-to-back wins following Saturday’s Premier League victory over West Ham.
Moore in comparison with Neymar by Maddison as Ange praises teenager
Teenager Moore was sensational within the victory as his swap to the left facet within the second half precipitated loads of issues for AZ, whereas within the first half he practically scored his first senior aim as he simply headed broad from Werner’s cross.
Such was the England U19 worldwide’s eye-catching show, team-mate James Maddison in contrast him to Neymar.
Maddison instructed TNT Sports activities: “From minute 45 to 65, I thought we had Neymar on the left wing! (Moore) was brilliant.
“Demanded the ball, fearless. That younger fearless mentality, you by no means wish to take that away from him.
“He’s a young kid, a brilliant lad. He’s a lovely boy, takes on information and he has got bags of ability. So, I will be there as an older player, hopefully with some wise words, to help him along the way. He has all the ability. It is about knuckling down and keep working hard which he does to be fair to him.”
Following Harry Kane’s exit in the summertime of 2023, the house followers now have a brand new academy graduate to be excited by with Kane’s ‘One Of Our Personal’ chant already bestowed upon Moore.
Postecoglou can now not hold Moore a secret.
“Pretty hard for me to keep a lid on it now, isn’t it?,” the Australian mentioned in his post-match press convention. “He was exciting. You can’t deny it.
“I like the way in which Mikey is simply taking all of it in his stride. He is working onerous day by day. He is desirous to develop. His understanding that this can be a journey and it’s extremely straightforward for a younger man like him who’s simply turned 17 to really feel like he is one way or the other made it however you by no means get that sense.
“It’s exciting when you’ve got such a young player who wants that responsibility to make an impact rather than being worried about making mistakes.
“We have now to be actually cautious about how we use him and once we use him, that’s the key for us, notably in these early phases.
“I have no fear throwing him in. absolutely not. I know and I see it every day, he’s a great young player and definitely more to come.”
So what impact might Maddison’s Neymar comparability make on Moore. None says Postecoglou.
He mentioned: “You’re worried about sort of putting too much pressure on young players, particularly in today’s world but the thing that gives me the most sort of confidence is just how he’s handling everything.
“I do not assume that even when he does hear what Madders has mentioned about him, will have an effect on him tomorrow.”
Ange: Werner lacks self-belief
However whereas Moore’s rise continues, Werner’s confidence disaster deepens – and Postecoglou admits the 28-year-old is missing “self-belief”.
“He’s definitely down in confidence,” he mentioned. “You can see that. It’s a difficult thing to get out of sometimes. You feel like the weight of the world’s on your shoulders. All we can do is try and support him and keep trying to get him to a place where he feels a little bit more confident with certain things.
“He is performed an ideal ball in for Mikey to attain early and if that goes in then perhaps it is an help for him and it offers him a raise.
“But at the same time, he needs to find a way out of it. Because for us, in those positions, we need players to make an impact and I thought in a couple of moments, he really kind of lacked some self-belief that we need to try and instil in him somehow.”
Maddison explains Richarlison penalty resolution
Tottenham midfielder James Maddison talking to TNT Sports activities:
“Initially we both wanted to take it. I’m a senior player, I was the captain today and I was going to take it.
“I had a little bit thought in my head and simply thought Richy’s come again from an damage, it may be troublesome coming again, particularly as a striker – I knew that final 12 months, it took me some time to get my first aim.
“That really gives confidence. It was a split-second to let him take it and it’ll do him the world of good.
“It is about management, I wore the armband tonight however even when I wasn’t [wearing it], I would nonetheless wish to assume I would make choices which have been finest for the crew.
“Richy’s a good penalty-taker and hopefully it gives him a big boost.”