Tottenham midfielder James Maddison and Brentford striker Neal Maupay were involved in a war of words following a spirited London derby on Wednesday.
Maupay had actually been Spurs’ chief tormentor, bundling in the opener and ending up his hosts by carrying out Maddison’s darts-themed objective event as Brentford held a half-time lead at the Tottenham Hotspur Arena.
However, with the assistance of 2 half-time replacements, Tottenham came flying out of the blocks in the 2nd half, with objectives from Fate Udogie, Brennan Johnson and Richarlison turning the video game around. The turn-around even provided Maddison the possibility to react to Maupay with his own darts event.
Speaking With TNT Sports, Maddison stated: “He most likely hasn’t scored enough objectives in the last number of years for his own event, so he most likely needed to copy mine!”
Publishing on Instagram quickly after the match, Maupay stated: “Gutted we could not get the win. More objectives and less transfers in my profession than James Maddison. We go once again Monday Bees.”
Neal Maupay commemorated with James Maddison’s darts-style event after offering Brentford a first-half lead at Spurs
Brennan Johnson imitates the darts event after offering Spurs a 2-1 lead
Ange: Possibly the gamers ought to get in a UFC cage!
Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou joked his gamers ought to handle Brentford’s in a UFC cage instead of push and push on a football pitch – however was pleased with the character of his group when they put that quarreling to one side and blew their challengers away at the start of the 2nd half.
” We began the video game well and with great strength and great pace,” he stated. “They scored and after that we lost our method. We simply lost the focus. I was a bit disappointed with our failure to remain disciplined. And it was simply a lot of stops, begins and it type of plays into their hands. We invested more time talking with the referee than playing the video game.
” 2nd half, for 25, thirty minutes we were impressive. We scored 3 terrific objectives, ought to have had a couple more. We provided an objective away which offers a little inspiration to their video game. From our point of view, terrific character revealed by the lads to get a win.”
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Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou wasn’t a fan of the shenanigans that went on in their video game versus Brentford, with Neal Maupay having actually triggered outcry by mimicing James Maddison’s darts event following his very first half objective
On the scuffles and darts events, he stated: ” I’m not a fan of it. I do not like the entire blowing and pressing individuals around. If they’re that brave about things, my gamers and their gamers, enter into a UFC cage and I’ll see how brave they are. We’re out there to play football which’s what I desire our guys to concentrate on. We got absorbed in the very first half, 2nd half was better.”
Brentford manager Thomas Frank dismissed any recommendation Tottenham would grumble about the shenanigans of his gamers.
” If they’re speaking about darts event winding them up, then they have a concern,” he stated.
Rather, he was delegated rue what he called a “10-minute blackout” from his side at the start of the 2nd half which cost them the match.
” Other than for a 10 minute blackout we did effectively,” he stated. “That is aggravating. We constantly intend to play the ideal video game and I believe we were really close. Very first half was practically ideal. Really aggressive in high pressure, and low block. Great shifts, scored a great objective, had 3 or 4 other chances. We were on top. They had the ball more.
” 2nd half, the very first objective is one gamer around 4 of our gamers and the ricochet drops for him. 2nd objective, we can’t yield on our kick-off. And 3rd was a ricochet dropping. Really pleased with character and method they kept battling. We scored and in the end near to equalise. We see them alter to a back 5, I do not believe I have actually seen them do that in the entire season, so they should appreciate us.”
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