Tottenham 3-2 Brentford: Postecoglou's side complete second-half fight back to win five-goal thriller
Richarlison scored his eighth Premier League aspiration of the period as Tottenham Hotspur fought earlier from behind to vanquished Brentford 3-2.
Spurs were impoverished in the first half as well as were behind to Neal Maupay’s 15th-min opener but Ange Postecoglou’s half-time staff talk seemingly kneaded a reward.
Fate Udogie as well as substitute Brennan Johnson scored within 72 secs of each different other at the outset of the second period before Richarlison netted his 7th aspiration in his last seven Premier League video games.
There was still time for Ivan Toney to score again on his second perfection since his rejoinder from a betting ban but Tottenham scheduled on to leapfrog Aston Escape abode as well as redeem 4th county.
Spurs were eager to bounce earlier after leaving the FA Cup last Friday as well as James Maddison was handed a prelude but Brentford also had their going earlier savior entailed via Toney pioneering the queue again.
While all eyes were on Toney, it was the Bees’ different other onward who penniless the deadlock.
Udogie offered away family members to Christian Norgaard who sent out Toney clear as well as while goalkeeper uglielmo Vicario thwarted the England international, Maupay was on hand to package in to score for a 4th successive suit.
Maupay as well as Toney rejoiced by appearing like Maddison’s dart toss festivity but it was a deserved opener after Mads Roerslev had a aspiration adjudged out for offside minutes earlier.
Postecoglou’s side originally reacted well to going behind via Timo Werner purging Mark Flekken after a alright Rodrigo Bentancur sprinted before Werner pioneered wide from a Pedro Porro side.
Richarlison after that blinked an exertion past the post from scope but Spurs started to avail sucked relevant into Brentford’s gameplan that owns acquired them different wins at Chelsea as well as wins at Guy Metropolitan suspension throughout yesteryear two periods.
Stress started to boil over at the away side’s pedestrian pace at kit-pieces as well as the Bees basically doubled their allay as soon as Ethan Pinnock backheeled wide after an additional crazy bulbous relevant into Tottenham’s penalty locale.
Dejan Kulusevski as well as Maupay were booked by David Coote for a shoving suit soon after before Vicario punched away a Toney header to make certain it was 1-0 at the respite.
Postecoglou rendered a dual modification at half-time via Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg as well as Johnson launched.
Werner as well as Udogie did not have mowing side in the first half but melded to equalise 3 minutes relevant into the second half.
Udogie lugged the bulbous onward, messed around a speedy one-two via Werner as well as, after his first exertion had been clogged by Pinnock, he was on hand to connector residence to equip it 1-1.
The Brentford players had scarcely got earlier relevant into position as soon as Tottenham collared an additional.
Kulusevski sent out Werner away as well as the RB Leipzig loanee showed a medical side via a alright bulbous to the earlier post whereby substitute Johnson tapped in.
Johnson rejoiced by xeroxing Maddison’s darts festivity as well as Richarlison abided via suit in the 56th min.
Tottenham were at their unshackle-surging most protected now via Udogie pinpointing Maddison, who mow earlier as well as had a inoculation clogged by Pinnock but Richarlison was on hand to overview residence.
Brentford lingered a grouse as well as after Toney had sent out two initiatives wide, he rendered it thirdly time privileged in front of England manager Gareth Southgate via 67 minutes messed around.
It was an additional present from Udogie, who failed to sift upwards as well as sent out his enact earlier relevant to Toney as well as he rifled relevant into the side to suspension a grandstand layer.
Maddison’s night finished early via what showed up to be cramp before the Bees made one last opportunity but Vicario tipped over Josh Dasilva’s cozy-scope battery to earn Spurs a priceless 3 times.