'Huge' - Roy Keane praises Tottenham duo after Liverpool draw

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.

Relegation-threatened Spurs had looked on course to suffer a seventh straight defeat in all competitions after Dominik Szoboszlai struck home a 30-yard free-kick to break the deadlock in the 18th minute.

But the champions were found wanting in pursuit of a second and were made to pay for their wastefulness in front of goal as Richarlison capitalised on some poor defending to equalise at the death.

Andy Robertson and Virgil van Dijk both came up short in their attempts to deal with Vicario’s searching ball out from the back and Richalison made no mistake from ten yards out having been put through by Randal Kolo Muani.

Given their wretched start under Igor Tudor and the absence of 13 first-team players through injury and suspension, the result at Anfield will give the visitors a much-needed morale boost in their fight for top-flight survival.

The north Londoners will hope the fightback could prove a turning point ahead of their return to Premier League action at home to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest next weekend.

Analysing the performance in the Sky Sports studio, Jamie Redknapp called on Tudor to continue with both Solanke and Richarlison up front after their success on Merseyside.

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. Can you somehow get some points to get yourself out of this horrendous predicament they’ve found themselves in?

‘It will be interesting. Does he stick to same two centre-backs? Does he bring Christian Romero back in and Micky van de Ven? 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. But that physicality with the two players up front was huge. 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. Huge.’

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