{"id":539606,"date":"2026-03-16T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:50:07","slug":"richarlison-rescues-late-point-for-spurs-at-liverpool-to-ease-pressure-on-tudor-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539606\/","title":{"rendered":"Richarlison rescues late point for Spurs at Liverpool to ease pressure on Tudor | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Igor Tudor has been unable to claim many positives in his short Tottenham reign but he has finally earned the first point of his tenure. Spurs were a match for the Premier League<\/a> champions and, after missing a collection of chances, the former Everton forward Richarlison became the most unpopular of villains.<\/p>\n

After Guglielmo Vicario failed to keep out a Dominik Szoboszlai free-kick, it felt as if a Liverpool<\/a> victory was inevitable but they could not build on the opener, a frequent shortcoming. Tudor was planning for a familiar feeling at the final whistle until Richarlison fittingly scored with a scuffed effort at the end of a match short on quality. It was the Brazilian\u2019s sixth clear-cut chance, with the previous misses giving the expectation that Tottenham were set for a familiar feeling.<\/p>\n

Tudor had kept his job for another weekend despite the desperate performances and situation the club he inexplicably coaches finds itself in. Injuries have not helped Tudor, who could name only seven substitutes, including two goalkeepers, although that was a sensible policy after the midweek implosion at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a>. Thirteen players were unavailable to Tudor, resulting in another formation rotation, as 4-4-2 got the nod at Anfield, creating a coherent unit in the process.<\/p>\n

For a team supposedly completely devoid of confidence after five straight league losses and a calamity of a Champions League defeat, Tottenham had a degree of zip about their play. Dominic Solanke troubled Joe Gomez with his running in behind and Souza forced Alisson into tipping a rising thunderbolt over the bar in the opening quarter of an hour.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Spurs are not known for their decision-making and tripping up a marauding Alexis Mac Allister 30 yards out with Szoboszlai on the pitch was an error. With the fragility of the Tottenham goalkeeping situation the Hungarian\u2019s whipped shot only needed to be on target \u2013 Vicario got a big hand to it, only to push it into the corner. The Italian\u2019s positioning was questionable because the ball was aimed at the centre of goal. The error was not on the level of Antonin Kinsky\u2019s but it was another the visitors could ill afford.<\/p>\n

Tottenham dropped very deep whenever Liverpool earned possession, inviting them to find a path through their yellow wall. It led to a number of half-chances as Liverpool\u2019s domination of the ball and territory did not turn into goals, expecting that victory would find them rather than the other way round.<\/p>\n

The visiting side\u2019s defensive discipline was keeping them in the game, having instilled greater composure and organisation, two lesser spotted concepts under Tudor. The hosts were not particularly worried about being hurt at the other end, although Richarlison almost scored but he saw one header go wide and another palmed away by Alisson, warnings Liverpool did not heed.<\/p>\n

Tudor brought his usual array of head-shaking and animated behaviour to the touchline. He received a booking for questioning Chris Kavanagh\u2019s decision to not book Rio Ngumoha for diving after the 17-year-old winger made the most of contact in the box.<\/p>\n

Guglielmo Vicario fails to keep out Dominik Szoboszlai\u2019s free-kick. Photograph: Phil Noble\/Reuters<\/p>\n

The Liverpool fans were more happy to see Ngumoha\u2019s fearless play on another underwhelming afternoon. He had two chances early in the second half, firing one well wide and the other too close to Vicario but he was certainly justifying Slot\u2019s faith in him. Having someone eager to hug the touchline and go round full-backs is a rarity in the modern game, where wingers are trained to cut in. The variety was embraced by the crowd at Anfield, who gave a weary teenager a standing ovation when he departed on 64 minutes.<\/p>\n

Liverpool lacked the rhythm that made them Premier League champions, as they put in another stuttering performance. While Tottenham were forced to send on two teenagers for Premier League debuts, Slot could call upon Mohamed Salah, Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 and Curtis Jones when making a triple change but it did not have the desired effect of overpowering Tottenham.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve not been clinical enough throughout the whole season,\u201d Slot said. \u201cTell me why, it\u2019s not the quality of the players, I can tell you that. We have unbelievable attackers and throughout their whole career were able to score a lot of goals. But it\u2019s not only not scoring the goals, it\u2019s also if you want to have a successful season, if you are not able then to score the second or the third goal then you make sure you don\u2019t concede.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a very competitive and combative game, even if the performances were not of the highest level. Spurs showed the commitment lacking in recent fixtures, putting in the last-ditch tackles and blocks when it matters. They were effectively playing on the break and Richarlison got the better of Virgil van Dijk but not Alisson after latching on to a pass over the top. The margins between the teams were becoming finer.<\/p>\n

The home crowd were getting increasingly tense as Liverpool failed to find a second. Their concern was justified as in the 90th minute Richarlison eventually found the equaliser that had previously eluded him, scuffing the ball into the corner to wrongfoot Alisson, to give Liverpool fans a familiar feeling of not killing off a game, while Tottenham\u2019s were reminded that football can be enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Igor Tudor has been unable to claim many positives in his short Tottenham reign but he has finally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-539606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}