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He might have endured his fair share of injury woes this season, but Richarlison is quietly enjoying quite the goalscoring run in the Premier League.

While three separate injuries have seen Richy face quite the broken season, he has recently got himself on quite the run in the top flight in front of goal, which continued in Monday night's defeat to Nottingham Forest.

Giving us hope late on in the game with a powerful header to bring the scoreline to how it ultimately finished, 2-1, the forward scored his fourth goal in just his last five games - an incredible run considering injuries have seen him miss two thirds of the campaign to date.

Unavailable for 21 of our 33 Premier League games thus far, it has certainly been a difficult season for the Brazilian, but his recent run certainly shows the impact he can have when available.

A run which began back in January - something that perhaps highlights just how tricky a campaign it has been for our number nine - as we travelled to Everton, the forward bundled the ball home late in that game before registering against Leicester the following weekend.

Starting against Brentford immediately after that, a calf injury picked up in our League Cup semi-final second leg at Liverpool then saw him miss the next two months of action before he returned in our 4-2 defeat at Wolves just over a week ago.

He struck at Molineux, again bundling the ball across the line before he then found the target against Forest on Monday night. That goal being his 20th in our colours since his summer, 2022, switch from Everton.

It also marks the forwards best run of form for us since he scored nine in eight league games between December, 2023, and February, 2024.

Ella Morris experienced the sweet feeling of scoring her first Spurs goal on Sunday, but was ultimately left with a sour taste from the last-gasp 3-2 defeat to Aston Villa in the Barclays Women’s Super League.

The England youth international delivered another lively performance and played a key role in our spirited second-half comeback as two goals in a five-minute spell saw us fight from 2-0 down to get back on level terms.

Jess Naz halved the deficit after Anna Patten and Ebony Salmon put the visitors ahead and, in the 70th minute, Ella grabbed the equaliser with her maiden goal for the Club and in the WSL as she rounded the goalkeeper before slotting home.

However, despite being in the ascendancy from that point, it was Villa who went to clinch the three points as Kirsty Hanson grabbed a late winner in the first minute of stoppage time at Brisbane Road.

“It was a disappointing outcome but there were a lot of positives to take from the game,” she told us. “Going 2-0 down is never easy so to have fought back to get on level terms shows our resilience but now it’s just about working out how to maintain that draw or push for a win.”

Reflecting on her first goal in a Spurs shirt, Ella added: “It was obviously bittersweet to have not gone on to get the win from it, but I was just very grateful to have had the opportunity to be on the pitch and score my first goal for the Club.

“As a defender, I have never been that goal-driven but it’s always nice to get that goal when those rare moments happen, but hopefully it will be the first of many.”

Next up is a trip to St Helens Stadium to face Liverpool on Sunday and Ella is anticipating another tough encounter.

“It will be a really good game,” she said. “Liverpool are a good side, they have a lot of great players, and I think transitionally they’re a really great team, so that’s something we will have to work on. But I definitely think we can go up there and push for a win at the weekend.”

Watch | Morris' first Spurs goal

Ange Postecoglou explained to our Review Show that it was always the plan to play Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven for 45 minutes of Monday's Premier League clash against Nottingham Forest.

Ange started with four of the back five that kicked-off last week's fine win against Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany to take us into the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League - Destiny Udogie was rested completely from the matchday squad, with Djed Spence coming in at left-back.

Cuti and Micky started together for only the sixth time since October - and the third time in our last four matches - before being replaced by Ben Davies and Kevin Danso at half-time as Forest ran out 2-1 victors at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Captaining the team in Heung-Min Son's absence, Cuti has now started our last nine matches in all competitions after only starting one between November and 9 March. It's a similar story for Micky, who has now started five of our last eight since returning to action at the same time. Before that, he'd started once since December.

"They were going to play 45 tonight," said Ange. "If it was a Sunday game, they probably wouldn't have played at all, but with it being Monday, it was a good chance to keep building those guys up, a good chance for Kulusevski, Richarlison, Wilson, Kevin to get some minutes as well. We were able to rest Destiny and Madders, Lucas. That will be helpful as well."

Ange was asked further about the central defensive pair in his post-match press conference.

"I thought they needed to play some minutes tonight because it becomes 10 days leading into Liverpool (on Sunday)," he said. "With both of them we've got them in a really good place physically now and I just want to keep them ticking over. I felt that there was no need to play more than 45 minutes today and we needed to get a couple of others game time. I just felt that if it was Sunday we probably wouldn't have played them, but on a Monday, especially for Micky because he's been playing just one game a week, we need to build him up because he's in a really good place at the moment so I thought 45 minutes for both of them would be beneficial."

We are pleased to announce that our Under-21s have been invited to take part in the annual Robert Rowan Invitational at Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium next month.

Wayne Burnett’s side will take on Brentford B Team on Monday 19 May, kick-off 7pm (UK), in what represents another fantastic opportunity for our young professionals to run out at a Premier League ground.

First introduced in 2023, the Robert Rowan Invitational honours the Bees’ late Technical Director after whom the match is named, with proceeds going to the Heart of West London charity, highlighting the importance of cardiac health.

Manchester City and AFC Bournemouth’s Under-21 sides have previously taken part in the fixture.

Tickets will be available via Brentford FC’s website in the run-up to the game.

We hope our supporters can make it down to the Gtech Community Stadium to get behind Wayne and the team in this high-profile end-of-season friendly.

The Review Show | Spurs vs Nottingham Forest

Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after our 2-1 loss in the Premier League against Nottingham Forest on Monday night.

Here's what he had to say...

Ange on the shot count of 22-4 in our favour...

"It’s another game we have lost where we shouldn’t lose and it’s been a big part of our season in that we are just making things really difficult for ourselves in key moments, just a little bit of concentration, giving away poor goals. It’s a shame because our football was outstanding and we totally dominated the game. Even with the two goals we conceded I still feel like we deserved to win the game. At the same time, it’s another loss and another unacceptable loss. For us it’s just been a season where at times, even with the challenges we have had and we have had challenges today have to make changes to the team, but it’s really frustrating because our football was so good. We have lost another game."

Ange on 18 defeats in the Premier League and what he can say to the fans...

"I don’t need to say anything to the fans. The fans are disappointed and angry as we are as well. It’s too many losses, I know that. I don’t need to tell the fans anything. The fans clearly wouldn’t be happy with our results, but neither am I or the players. From our perspective, it’s something we need to accept responsibility for, that we have fallen short of the standards we need to have. The flip side of that is that the frustrating bit is it’s not because of the way we are playing because our football today was very similar to the Frankfurt game at home which was another game we should have won."

Ange on taking off Romero and van de Ven at half-time...

"That was pre-planned."

Ange on the positive of Richarlison scoring again...

"It was part of the exercise today to get him and Wilson, Kulusevski, Kevin Danso some game time because they have missed a hell of a lot of football. Richy has hardly played all year, Deki has been a couple of months, same with Wilson and Kevin. From that perspective it was good they all got through it and got some meaningful minutes. We could rest a few others which was also useful for us. From that perspective it was a positive."

Ange on if trying to avoid our lowest points total can be a motivation, or if it's all about the Europa League...

"I don't know what that means. I don't think you saw a team that wasn't motivated. It's not like we lost because players chucked it in. If that's what people saw then they're watching something different to me. I don't think they lacked motivation today because I thought our football was outstanding. Again, we've paid the price for lacking focus and concentration in key moments and it's another game we've let slip. I don't think motivation is an issue."

Ange on if there's a lack of leadership or experience...

"It shouldn't be because it's happened to us a few times this year. We should have learned from these things but it's a constant in our make-up at the moment and it's something we need to eradicate. At different times this year we've shown really good focus and concentration, Frankfurt being a classic case of that. Tonight, just at the start we didn't really sense the only threat that Forest were going to have was the counter-attack, which we handled really well in the second half, and set pieces. We let in two poor goals."

Ange on if he has any concerns about Vicario's confidence...

"No I don't, he's fine."

Ange on Destiny Udogie and James Maddison...

"Destiny was fine. We just left him out of the squad tonight. He put in a big physical shift on Thursday and the idea was always to rest him. I wasn't going to put him on so there was no point in putting him on the bench. Madders was pretty sore yesterday but in the last 24 hours he recovered and was keen to be on the bench. They're both fine."

Ange on the thinking behind Cuti and Micky playing 45 minutes...

"I thought they needed to play some minutes tonight because it becomes 10 days leading into Liverpool. We've got them in a really good place physically now and I just want to keep them ticking over. I felt that there was no need to play more than 45 minutes today and we needed to get a couple of others game time. I just felt that if it was Sunday, we probably wouldn't have played them, but on a Monday, especially for Micky because he's been playing just one game a week, we need to build him up because he's in a really good place at the moment, so I thought 45 minutes for both of them would be beneficial."

Ange Postecoglou said 'we're our own worst enemy' after our 2-1 home defeat against Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Monday night.

Two early goals cost us as Elliot Anderson (five minutes) and Chris Wood (16 minutes) struck for Forest.

That left us with a mountain to climb but we dominated from there. We racked up 22 efforts at goal to Forest's four as Wilson Odobert, Mathys Tel, and Dejan Kulusevski had chances in the first half, Deki then had a header cleared off the line in the second half and Matt Selz denied Richarlison twice before Richy finally planted home a header from Pedro Porro's cross on 87 minutes. However, that was the last of the chances as Forest killed the game in added time.

Ange on any reasons for starting poorly...

"It's the finer details... concentration, focus, understanding the threats the opposition have. They're only going to hurt us on transition and counter-attacks, and I thought we handled that really well, with set pieces, so the fact we conceded two from those kind of situations is poor, because on Thursday night (against Eintracht Frankfurt) those kind of things we were doing. Put that to one side and see the way we play, and you are frustrated you lost another game."

Ange on 22-4 efforts on goal telling the story...

"Well, it tells part of the story - the most frustrating part of the story. For us, it's frustrating. Fans will be disappointed, we're disappointed, the hard part to accept is that it's not that we played poorly and lost, you take your medicine, but we're our own worst enemy in some of these games."

Ange on the difficulty of the challenge because of the difference in jeopardy between Europa League and Premier League games...

"It's hard to say. Obviously I'm making changes to the team, and that's potentially disruptive, particularly at the start of games. If our football was poor and disjointed, it would be some sort of explanation, but our football was good. It's just something we've got in our make up at the moment of letting things slip and paying the ultimate price. It's very similar to the night we had here against Frankfurt when we created so many chances you should win, the opposition have a couple of chances and score. From our perspective, we've just got to concentrate better in those key moments."

Richarlison’s late goal wasn’t enough to spark a comeback as Nottingham Forest left N17 with all three points in a 2-1 win on Monday evening.

The Brazilian struck with three minutes remaining for his 20th goal in our colours but Forest had already taken a two-goal advantage through Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood after just 17 minutes and, despite a strong performance, we couldn’t find the goals we needed to salvage a result.

We dominated the match stats in every metric apart from goals, enjoying 70 per cent possession, having 22 shots and six on target with the visitors touching the ball in our box on just four occasions all game. But they defended their advantage well with goalkeeper Matz Sels making a couple of fine saves to deny us on the few occasions we did get a good sight of goal.

The early minutes were all played out in the Forest half, although it was the visitors with the lead after five minutes. Anderson fizzed a pass in to Morgan Gibs-White who turned and hit a snap-shot which Guglielmo Vicario pushed away for a corner. From the set-piece, Pedro Porro’s near-post header fell to Anderson on the edge of the area and he struck a wicked drive which took a flick off Rodrigo Bentancur and beat Vicario for power.

The visitors had the ball in the net five minutes later, Wood tucking home from Anderson’s cross although it was ruled out by VAR for offside but they didn’t have too wait long to double their lead. It was Wood again with the finish, this time a glancing header in the 17th minute from Anthony Elanga’s excellent cross.

We tested Sels for the first time three minutes later, Wilson Odobert’s low curler needing to be tipped around the post while Mathys Tel headed over at the back post and Dejan Kulusevski drilled straight at Sels as we applied a bit of pressure in search of a quick response. Possession-wise, we were well on top and should have reduced the deficit with two good chances just before the interval. First up, Neco Williams fluffed his clearance from Pedro Porro’s cross but Tel lashed the loose ball wide before another Porro centre found Richarlison at the far post however he sent his header past the upright.

A double switch at half-time saw both centre-halves replaced – Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero swapped for Ben Davies and Kevin Danso – and we continued to play on the front foot, seeing plenty of the ball. But Forest were always a threat on the counter and Gibbs-White flashed a shot just wide from a Wood flick 10 minutes into the second period. A stunning goal-line clearance prevented us from pulling a goal back in the 63rd minute when Kulusevski’s near-post flick from a corner beat Sels but not Harry Toffolo’s excellent intervention, while Richarlison couldn’t believe his eyes when a Forest clearance came to him with just Sels to beat, only for the keeper to rush out and smother his effort.

The visitors were very much content to sit back and let us have the ball in front of them, challenging us to find a way through and, despite so much of possession, we were finding a route to goal hard to come by. When we did create a great chance – Porro picking out Richarlison with another delivery into the box – Sels was there again, diving to his right to tip the Brazilian’s header away.

Finally though, we did find the target with three minutes of normal time remaining and it was that same combination, Porro – making his 100th Spurs appearance – sending a cross in from the right and this time, Richarlison’s glancing header was out of reach of Sels and bounced into the far corner. Five minutes of stoppage time gave us hope however Forest did what they could to stop the flow of the game and we were unable to apply any late pressure, slipping to an eighth home league defeat of the season.

Pedro Porro reached his Spurs century on Monday night as he made his 100th appearance for the Club.

The defender, who joined us from Sporting CP in January, 2023, arrived initially on loan before making the move permanent the following summer.

Making his debut in a Premier League trip to Leicester City the same month as he signed for us, just over two years later he has reached his century with it coming in Nottingham Forest's visit to N17.

A player who has starred in the inverted full-back role in Ange Postecoglou's system, his dynamic displays have seen him become a crowd favourite while he has made a habit of scoring spectacular goals.

Grabbing his first for the Club in a dramatic 3-3 draw at Southampton in March, 2023, he has now amassed 10 goals for us with his tenth coming in the first leg of our recent Europa League quarter-final clash with Eintracht Frankfurt.

We can confirm the starting line-ups and substitutes for this evening's Premier League clash with Nottingham Forest at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (8pm UK).

Ange Postecoglou has made five changes for the visit of Forest.

In defence, Djed Spence comes into the starting XI for Destiny Udogie, who misses out tonight.

In midfield, there are two changes as Pape Matar Sarr and Dejan Kulusevski both start with Lucas Bergvall and James Maddison taking places amongst our substitutes.

Up top, Richarlison and Wilson Odobert return to the starting line-up, Richy for the first time since our League Cup semi-final second-leg trip to Liverpool while Wilson makes his first start since our Europa League round of 16 second-leg win over AZ Alkmaar.

Our full line-up is as follows...

Starting XI: Vicario; Pedro Porro, Romero (c), van de Ven, Spence; Sarr, Bentancur, Kulusevski; Odobert, Richarlison, Tel