Ange Postecoglou the Tottenham Hotspur supervisor seems on through the Carabao Cup Third Spherical match between Coventry Metropolis and Tottenham Hotspur at The Coventry Constructing Society Area on September 18, 2024 in Coventry, England. (Photograph by David Rogers/Getty Photographs)
Ange Postecoglou has heaped reward on striker Dominic Solanke after he lastly scored his first Tottenham Hotspur objective.
Spurs accomplished the £55m signing of Solanke from Bournemouth in August in a transfer that they hoped would lastly exchange Harry Kane, who left for Bayern Munich final summer season.
Solanke caught the attention with 21 objectives throughout all competitions final season, together with 19 in 38 Premier League appearances.
Nevertheless, the 26-year-old endured a gradual begin to life at Tottenham, failing to attain or help in every of his first three appearances for the membership.
However Solanke lastly obtained off the mark as he equalised within the eighth minute of Tottenham’s 3-1 win over Brentford on Saturday after the Bees had taken the lead within the first minute.
The previous Liverpool and Chelsea man was readily available to fireplace dwelling the rebound after Brentford stopper Mark Flekken stored out James Maddison’s preliminary effort.
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Ange praises ‘actually sturdy’ Solanke after first Spurs objective
Spurs went on to claim their dominance from there, with Brennan Johnson and Maddison including the extras to seal all three factors, whereas the Lilywhites ended the match with 23 photographs and three.51 xG in comparison with simply six and 0.58, respectively, from Brentford.
Talking to reporters after Saturday’s match, Postecoglou praised Solanke not only for his objective, but additionally his work price and total performances since arriving at Tottenham.
“Yeah, I imply, once more Dom’s nonetheless working his approach to match health. You noticed on the finish there, he was out of fuel. We needed to take him off a bit earlier, however we wanted that third objective to kill the sport off,” Postecoglou mentioned (by way of Soccer.London).
He continued: “However he was good once more, I believe he’s been good in each sport he’s performed for us, and as you mentioned, strikers love scoring objectives and, yeah, an incredible second for him to attain his first objective for the membership, notably at dwelling.
“However except for that, once more it was a extremely sturdy efficiency by him. I believed he led the road rather well, necessary for us right this moment as a hyperlink up there as a result of we knew they’d go fairly aggressive on a man-to-man marking and he was going to have to carry the ball up for us and I believed he did that actually effectively.”
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