A ghostly chair sits empty at the top of Tottenham’s table. Despite this being one of their more valiant fightbacks, the scars of the past 18 months are not imaginary. Visible scar tissue has been gouged from this attack.
Defeat at Anfield in the Carabao Cup was partly self-inflicted, with eight changes from the XI that started in the stalemate with Everton. All three Liverpool goals from Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai were spectacular, but Mac Allister’s was the defining one simply by virtue of being the first. In 46 attempts since November 2024, Spurs have not won a match after conceding the opening goal. They are the precise opposite of a team who doesn’t known when it’s beaten.
In the moments after Conor Gallagher’s consolation header, it might have been different. Something, at least in a rudimentary form, is clicking. The best chances came and went, spurned by Lucas Bergvall, straight at Giorgi Mamardashvili, and Mohamed Kudus, who blasted over. Omar Marmoush was denied an equaliser by a miraculous Mamardashvili save; he is no out-and-out striker. There is only one of those available and Dominic Solanke started on the bench.
It is becoming harder to escape the conclusion that in spite of the millions spent, Spurs have made their attack weaker in material terms.
Spurs’ attacking problems
Not so much a case of absent hope, but of absent friends. Amid the glaring lack of a centre-forward, it was the one occasion when Richarlison was eligible to play having been left out of the Premier League squad for asking to leave.
The Richarlison saga is turning ugly (Photo: PA)Proposed moves to Everton, Turkish side Trabzonspor, and Vasco de Gama in his native Brazil collapsed. Since then, he has been sent to perish in exile, behind a phone screen posting sad replies to whatever attacks Roberto De Zerbi has made upon him this week.
Just six months ago, a triumphant Richarlison rocked up on Merseyside to salvage the first point of Igor Tudor’s brief reign. It would play a part in keeping Spurs up. The determination to freeze him out might have looked a masterstroke if De Zerbi’s side had started the new season better. With results as they are, it increasingly feels like stubbornness. An unedifying spectacle that is hurting Tottenham more than it is healing any dressing room angst. The same could be said of the weekend’s public berating of Mathys Tel, who is playing like a 20-year-old whose confidence is shot to pieces.
Luca Williams-Barnett, another young forward who might have been given his own opportunity in a weakened side, was cast out to the U21s again, on the scoresheet against Dinamo Zagreb just as the senior team were relinquishing their best hope of a trophy. Will Lankshear, who left for Middlesbrough in the summer, was scoring his eighth goal in all competitions this season.
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Tottenham: ‘He didn’t sack me, Joe Lewis did’: Inside Daniel Levy’s Spurs, one year on Kat Lucas: Four reasons for Tottenham’s lack of goals – and the latest on RicharlisonWhere Tottenham were wasteful, Liverpool were clinical. Much like Richarlison, Mac Allister is not part of his manager’s long-term plans. There is no comparison as to how the two situations have been handled. It is no secret that Mac Allister is unhappy at not being offered a new contract, so the World Cup winner first struck his revenge in the Champions League against Atletico Madrid and followed that with a goal and assist here.
The other criticism of De Zerbi will come from those who suggest he did not take this competition seriously enough. He has complained of his senior players not being sharp and still several were rested.
The No 10 position ought to be a source of great solace, given it is where Spurs’ most naturally gifted operators sit. Instead Xavi Simons is a long way off returning, James Maddison is not able to play 90 minutes and Mateus Fernandes, when he plays further forward, is similarly being nursed carefully. Whatever the personnel, the same problems remain.
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