Dominic Solanke banks 36 points in three games as Tottenham assets climb rankings

WHILE overmuch of the absorption was connected the beleaguered hosts astatine Old Trafford connected Sunday, Tottenham merit plentifulness of recognition for a nonrecreational performance.

Spurs took the pb wrong 3 minutes and ne'er fto their ft disconnected Manchester United's pharynx connected their mode to a 3-0 victory.

Dominic Solanke (£4.2m) capped the triumph midway done the 2nd fractional with a poacher's effort from a country regular to proceed his good signifier since his instrumentality from injury.

The erstwhile Bournemouth striker has present scored 3 goals successful his past 3 outings, a tally that has yielded 36 Dream Team points.

Solanke scored his archetypal extremity for his caller nine against Brentford successful Gameweek 5 and instantly followed that up with different against Qarabag successful the Europa League.

And the underlying numbers suggest he's apt to prolong his awesome signifier arsenic he's mustered 11 shots connected people already this season.

For perspective, lone Erling Haaland (£9.2m) and Mohamed Salah (£7.5m) person registered much astatine this stage, which is singular fixed Solanke missed 2 Gameweeks done injury.

Upon his transportation to North London, we speculated that the 27-year-old would person plentifulness of work arsenic the focal constituent of Ange Postecoglou's dynamic strategy and that is proving to beryllium the case.

The early-season wounded caused Solanke's ownership to plummet but Dream Team bosses should erstwhile again person him successful their thoughts, particularly with plentifulness much European fixtures to come.

Spurs are acceptable to look Ferencvaros this Thursday with AZ Alkmaar, Galatasaray, Roma and Rangers each to travel earlier mid-December.

This season, determination are much European games to compression successful than ever earlier due to the fact that of the revised formats of the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Gaffers should truthful endeavour to guarantee they person plentifulness of players progressive successful these competitions for the applicable Gameweeks arsenic much fixtures mostly equals much points.

This is different crushed Solanke is adjacent much viable this play than successful 2023/24, erstwhile helium scored 19 league goals for the Cherries.

And Solanke is acold from the lone Spurs plus catching the oculus successful Dream Team close now.

Brennan Johnson (£3.6m) applied the finishing interaction to Micky van de Ven's (£3.7m) piercing tally to enactment Postecoglou's broadside successful the pb astatine Old Trafford for his 4th extremity successful arsenic galore games.

The Wales planetary has copped rather a batch of disapproval since his determination from Nottingham Forest, astir of it centred astir his precocious transportation interest of £50million, but his numbers are heading successful the close direction.

Naturally, this signifier has translated to an uplift successful Dream Team returns - 38 points crossed his past 4 outings to beryllium specific.

Having seemingly locked down the starting presumption connected the close flank, Johnson is simply a perchance savvy midfield recruit, particularly astatine his existent terms of £3.6m.

On a akin theme, James Maddison (£4.5m) present leads the mode among each Dream Team assets for bonus points with 15 to his name.

The productive playmaker ranks highly for close crosses, fouls won and shots connected target.

Both Johnson and Maddison are present wrong the apical 10 Dream Team midfielders aft Spurs' triumph astatine Old Trafford - Solanke is ninth among forwards.