{"id":348296,"date":"2026-03-16T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:14:11","slug":"richarlisons-late-equaliser-at-liverpool-earns-spurs-their-first-point-under-igor-tudor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348296\/","title":{"rendered":"Richarlison’s late equaliser at Liverpool earns Spurs their first point under Igor Tudor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky Sports Premier League<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n

Liverpool 1
Tottenham Hotspur 1<\/p>\n

RICHARLISON\u2019S 90TH-MINUTE equaliser earned Tottenham\u2019s under-fire interim head coach Igor Tudor a stay of execution with a 1-1 draw at Anfield as Liverpool conceded another late goal to dent their Champions League qualification hopes.<\/p>\n

Substitute Randal Kolo Muani held off Virgil van Dijk to roll a pass for the Brazil international to slot past international team-mate Alisson Becker and have Tudor punching the air as he ran out of his technical area to celebrate his first point in his five matches.<\/p>\n

The result hardly strengthened the Croatian\u2019s position as they remain in deep trouble but it did move Spurs a point above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

Boos which rang around Anfield at the final whistle after Richarlison\u2019s fifth goal at Anfield highlighted the level of discontent at another underwhelming performance from Arne Slot\u2019s side after taking a first-half lead.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeping issues cost Tottenham again them with Guglielmo Vicario failing to adequately deal with Dominik Szoboszlai\u2019s 18th-minute free-kick.<\/p>\n

Vicario had been restored to the starting line-up after Tudor\u2019s decision to start Antonin Kinsky against Atletico Madrid in the midweek Champions League contest ended with him being substituted after 17 minutes having been at fault for two of three goals.<\/p>\n

If there was any defence for the Italian goalkeeper, and there was little, it was that Szoboszlai has now scored four direct free-kick goals in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n

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\n Liverpool\u2019s Dominik Szoboszlai celebrates his opener. Peter Byrne \/ PA<\/p>\n

Peter Byrne \/ PA \/ PA\n<\/p>\n

It is the most by a Liverpool player in a single campaign with only David Beckham (2000-01) and Laurent Robert (2001-02) \u2013 both scoring five \u2013 having managed more and the Hungary captain is now responsible for a quarter of all free-kick goals in the league this season.<\/p>\n

But frustrations rose at the lack of open-play chances and that turned into anger when former Everton forward Richarlison equalised in front of the Kop.<\/p>\n

Slot has to answer more questions about another sub-par display. Although the point moved them fifth place they failed to capitalise on Chelsea\u2019s defeat on Saturday.<\/p>\n

There was an air of tension inside Anfield and that seemed to extend to Tudor, who appeared to confuse Tottenham\u2019s bald-headed player liaison officer Allan Dixon for Slot on the touchline, greeting the club\u2019s member of staff with a friendly arm around his waist before walking over to the home dugout.<\/p>\n

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\n Liverpool\u2019s Mohamed Salah came on in the closing stages. Peter Byrne \/ PA<\/p>\n

Peter Byrne \/ PA \/ PA\n<\/p>\n

But the anxiety was also felt on the pitch, where Slot had opted for pace on both flanks, handing 17-year-old Rio Ngumoha his first Premier League start and preferring Jeremie Frimpong to the out-of-form Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n

Based on some of the individual performances in the Champions League defeat to Galatasaray Salah, Ibrahima Konate, Milos Kerkez and Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 could have no complaints about being left out.<\/p>\n

Spurs\u2019 injury and suspension problems meant they were without 12 players, including their first-choice centre-back pairing, and could name only seven substitutes, of which only two were senior outfield players.<\/p>\n

Szoboszlai eased the nerves with another 25-yard special which Vicario got a full hand to but could not keep out. He did better in tipping Ryan Gravenberch\u2019s strike onto the post.<\/p>\n

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\n Richarlison was a handful even before his leveller. Peter Byrne \/ PA<\/p>\n

Peter Byrne \/ PA \/ PA\n<\/p>\n

But Richarlison, playing alongside Dominic Solanke up front, was proving a nuisance with three good chances either side of half-time.<\/p>\n

Ngumoha, who took his time to get into the game, had a rare shot across the goal but in his television commentary former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said his old team were \u201csleepwalking\u201d through the game.<\/p>\n

The triple substitution of Salah, Ekitike and Curtis Jones failed to energise them and Tottenham seized on that vulnerability to snatch a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky Sports Premier League \/ YouTube Liverpool 1Tottenham Hotspur 1 RICHARLISON\u2019S 90TH-MINUTE equaliser earned Tottenham\u2019s under-fire interim head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1101,1102,3405,112,3568],"class_list":["post-348296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}