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Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Szoboszlai 18’, Richarlison 90’)

ANFIELD –If you had to compile a list of players you would want in a relegation battle, when the straits are about as dire as they can be, Richarlison would have to be right up there. Something to cling to, a reason to believe Tottenham Hotspur will still be making trips to Liverpool, not Lincoln, next season.

For months Spurs have shown none of the heart or ambition required for the fight of their lives. But here, as a 90th-minute equaliser capped a day of furious frustration for Arne Slot’s wilting champions, they finally looked like a side able to salvage this miserable, wretched season.

IT'S LEVEL! Richarlison scores in the 90th minute pic.twitter.com/XETHk3ITFI

In the most literal sense of the word, Igor Tudor’s reign will not have proven to be pointless. Whatever happens in the coming days against Atletico Madrid and Nottingham Forest, if he departs or not, he will no doubt be left wondering what might have been had his squad not been stretched to breaking point.

Tottenham are so often left with nowhere to turn, dependent on the kind of divine intervention for which Richarlison collapsed to his knees and pointed to the sky.

Under normal circumstances, there would be questions. Such as why are the world’s ninth richest club unable to muster a full bench, leaving two empty seats? Why, after the hundreds of millions of pounds spent, were there but two senior outfield players among the substitutes? Notwithstanding the 13 players absent through injury or suspension, why was Tudor reduced to playing left-footed left-back Souza on the right wing?

And yet it feels futile to ask them, because the rot has come to be numbly accepted under chief executive Vinai Venkatesham and before that, Daniel Levy.

There is no longer an alternative to Guglielmo Vicario’s catastrophic loss of form, his wrists crumpling upon impact with Dominik Szoboszlai’s free-kick. Antonin Kinsky, anyone?

Another Dominik Szoboszlai free-kick goal pic.twitter.com/X4R0YWVtwV

The cruel treatment of Kinsky in Madrid had only added to the funereal air around Tudor’s tenure. It felt ludicrous to be discussing that on this, just his 29th day in charge; he at least injected a dose of humour at kick-off by mistaking one of his own follically challenged members of staff for Slot.

It has to be said that Liverpool let Spurs off the hook, not least through taking Rio Ngumoha off and thanks to Mohamed Salah again squandering a hatful of chances when he came on.

What makes the decision over Tudor’s future more complex, however, is not only the late rescue act from Richarlison. It is that this is a board who got it so badly wrong in January, the last time they had to punt between sticking or twisting. . You can picture the scene: sporting director Johan Lange putting out fires around the place, yelling don’t panic with the poise and authority of Dad’s Army’s Corporal Jones. Nobody panicked, making only two signings. Since then, the sirens have been blaring through Lilywhite House.

As Spurs hurtled towards the relegation zone – still just a point above West Ham and Nottingham Forest – the players should never have been let off the hook entirely. They have put in some abject displays but, just as he did for Everton to keep them up, Richarlison is coming out swinging.

However badly they have been let down from above, and that has very much been the mood in the dressing room, Tottenham now have to channel that spirit – inspired by the goal that might just keep them in the top flight.

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