da betobet： Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou revealed how he would have dealt with Richarlison's 'keepy-up' incident against Nottingham Forest last season.
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Richarlison showboated against Forest last seasonWas brought down by Johnson with a rough tacklePostecoglou gave his verdict on the incidentWHAT HAPPENED?
Richarlison drew ire from the Forest faithful for attempted showboating with keepie-uppies at the City Ground during Tottenham's fourth Premier League game of the previous season. Brennan Johnson, who was then a Forest player before the Lilly-whites signed him on deadline day in the summer in a £47.5million deal, was furious with the Brazilian and went in with a rash challenge to dispossess the forward.
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Addressing the incident, Postecoglou backed Johnson for his robust response, suggesting that Richarlison had crossed the line with his showboating. Speaking to reporters, he said: "I reckon even if you did what Richy did as a kid, someone would give you a whack! That’s just part of football. Everyone knows there’s a line.
“It’s all good. We don’t want to take all the fun out of the game. Every player knows there’s a line and if you cross that line, somebody will bring you back into line pretty quickly. Brennan did that with Richy.”
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Richarlison is one of the aces for Postecoglou who fired on all cylinders, scoring a brace against Newcastle United, in the previous matchday. The manager would urge him to keep producing the goods as Spurs are desperate to bring back their title ambitions on track after a wasteful November.
"I hope there’s a lot more to come, hopefully that’s the platform we’ve given him," he said.
"Look, it’s always the challenges for footballers. He came here, he’d had a fantastic impact in the Premier League with Everton, he came here and whenever significant money is invested, the expectations rise, you are going to a club where you are competing for honours and all those sort of things are the challenges you have to overcome when you come to a big club.
"That coupled with the physical setbacks he’d had, with a striker there’s usually just one thing people measure you by which is goals and all those kind of factors, but that’s up to him now. Like I said, we're trying to give him that platform now and he showed last week that he can be a real threat at this level both with and without the ball. He won’t be starved of opportunities here and it’s up to him to take those and take his football to the kind of level that we believe he can."
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As Tottenham face Forest again, the reception for Richarlison and Johnson from the home fans will be interesting to watch. More so, if both the players get on the scoresheet on a winning cause for the London side.