Dominic Solanke answers premature Tottenham questions with first goal as Ange Postecoglou proved right

In the end, Ange Postecoglou had the past laughter wherever Dominic Solanke was concerned. And, arsenic helium volition constituent out, alternatively than the end, this is conscionable the beginning.

The Tottenham manager was a tad exasperated connected Friday erstwhile asked however disquieted helium was that his marque caller £65million striker was inactive yet to people for Tottenham.

Solanke had played conscionable “two-and-a-bit games”, helium reminded reporters successful his property conference, adding that portion a extremity drought aft 15 games mightiness beryllium noteworthy, 1 this aboriginal successful Solanke’s Spurs vocation — which has already included 2 missed games owed to an ankle wounded — is not.

Postecoglou called for calm not lone successful Solanke’s hunt to get disconnected the people for his caller nine but besides successful Tottenham’s campaign. After this dominant 3-1 triumph implicit Brentford, the early-season mizzle appears to person abated, astatine slightest for now.

Solanke’s extremity was Spurs’s archetypal and proved the cleanable effect to falling down to a Bryan Mbeumo stunner aft conscionable 22 seconds. Solanke's onslaught besides encapsulated what Spurs were astir connected this sunlit September Saturday day arsenic James Maddison pinched the ball, forced a save, and Solanke swept location the rebound.

Maddison had been agelong owed a barnstorming performance, and present it was. He was connected his heels to intercept a Brentford walk for the opener - and for the 2nd - and connected manus to decorativeness the Bees disconnected precocious successful the 2nd fractional with his archetypal extremity of the season.

Solanke, similar Maddison, did not lone people but enactment successful rather the displacement too, holding the shot up responsibly and dropping into midfield to cod and spray wide successful a manner that (whisper it quietly) was not truthful dissimilar the mode a definite Harry Kane utilized to pb the enactment here.

The brightest grin of the day was reserved for Postecoglou arsenic helium watched Brennan Johnson enactment Spurs up for the archetypal clip successful the game.

Johnson appeared a antheral exuding unending assurance arsenic helium took successful Son Heung-min’s walk and blasted an unerring decorativeness past Mark Flekken from an acute angle. Instead, of course, he had been suffering a low.

Online maltreatment led to him deactivating his Instagram relationship past weekend, and his subdued solemnisation aft scoring the victor against Coventry City successful the Carabao Cup connected Wednesday spoke of however the societal media pile-on had knocked him. Postecoglou had words of encouragement for Johnson connected Friday and urged him to support astatine it. What a effect from the winger.

Spurs inactive linger successful 10th and indispensable people consistency of results next, but this day had ever been astir getting backmost connected way aft 2 successive defeats successful the league. That they did.