Tottenham star Dominic Solanke fires clear three-word message after Ange Postecoglou plea
Dominic Solanke reckons Tottenham Hotspur will keep moving forward after scoring his first goal for the club to help them come from behind to beat Brentford. Solanke equalised minutes after an emphatic early opener from Bryan Mbuemo with an instinctive first-time finish after Mark Flekken parried a James Maddison shot into his path.
Brennan Johnson then put Spurs ahead before Maddison sealed the win late on. All three goals were firsts in this Premier League season, particularly poignant for Johnson, who deactivated his Instagram account after the North London Derby, and Solanke after the abuse they've been receiving in some circles.
Solanke still has his Instagram account active, though, and posted afterwards on the platform: "We keep moving!" In the comments section, Maddison replied: "First of a helllluvaaaa lot of goals for you this season my boy."
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Ange Postecoglou defended his summer signing before the match. "People are just so quick to judge," the Spurs head coach said. "It's a small sample [of people].
"The guy has played less than two [full] games for us. If he'd gone 15 games without a goal, or 15 games where he hasn't contributed, but I just think; 'take a breath, do a bit of yoga'. Think about the world for a second and make an assessment after that.
"We don't have to rush to make a judgement all the time, because the alternative is he may have got off to a great start, if he is fit, scored in all four games, is flying and then he goes through a patch like all strikers where he doesn't score. I just don't look at those things.
"What I look at is he has come in, fitted really well and quite logically has picked up an injury that has disrupted the way he wanted to start his career, but he's still got plenty of time for that."