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‘Huge’ – Roy Keane praises Tottenham duo after Liverpool draw

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Dominic Solanke and Richarlison were ‘huge’ against Liverpool, says Roy Keane (Picture: Getty) Roy Keane praised the ‘huge’ performances of Dominic Solanke and Richarlison after Tottenham ended their miserable losing run with a 1-1 draw away to Liverpool. Richarlison struck at the death to salvage a point for the visitors (Picture: Getty) Szoboszlai opened the scoring with an early free-kick at Anfield (Picture: Getty) ‘Coming here today, I didn’t give them a hope,’ the ex-Tottenham, Liverpool and England midfielder began. ‘I have to be honest, I looked at the team and I was thinking, “How can this team get a result today?”, because they’ve been so spineless in every aspect of play. ‘But now it’s going to be interesting.



They’ve kept the manager. ‘They had all that turmoil and had they lost today they would have had to get rid of Igor Tudor. Spurs must continue with Solanke and Richarlison up front, says Redknapp (Picture: Getty) ‘They’ve now got two huge games: Atletico Madrid and Nottingham Forest at home.

They’ve been awful lately, they haven’t really shown a lot of quality and ill discipline hasn’t helped. ‘He’s got a few decisions to make but one thing for sure I would do is keep those two strikers up there because I think that gave them a platform.’ Roy Keane was similarly impressed by Solanke and Richarlison, praising the duo for providing an ‘outlet’ for their team-mates build around. ‘It gave them an outlet for the players and Liverpool struggled to deal with it,’ the former Manchester United captain added. ‘Generally with Spurs, you always think there’s a softness to them. They were a huge bonus today for Spurs. ‘It was an outlet, they were knocking people over and between now and the end of the season, with those battles they have every week… Nottingham Forest is the next league game.