James Maddison hits out at critics after first Tottenham goal of the season

James Maddison hopes that his archetypal extremity of the play ‘shuts up a fewer people’ aft completing the scoring successful Tottenham’s 3-1 triumph implicit Brentford connected Saturday.

It was a bully time for Spurs arsenic they enactment past weekend’s decision to Arsenal down them and picked up a 2nd triumph implicit the campaign.

Summer signing Dominic Solanke besides opened his relationship for Tottenham, portion Brennan Johnson scored the 2nd of their 3 goals.

Maddison was delighted with his and the team’s show and hopes that his critics were watching arsenic helium recovered the backmost of the net.

Arsenal fable Paul Merson was among those critics aft the 1-0 decision to the Gunners past Sunday, saying Maddison needed to ‘step up’ from caller performances.

Maddison said aft the Brentford win: ‘The squad is ever the astir important. I would person been blessed with my show and however I played careless of whether I got the goal.

‘It evidently helped america successful the crippled due to the fact that we got that small cushion. It benignant of shuts up a fewer radical successful the inheritance who deliberation the goals and assists bash substance much than what they astir apt do.

‘I americium an attacking subordinate who has ever scored goals and ever got assists, that’s my job.

‘So erstwhile you are not doing that and adjacent if you consciousness similar you are playing good personally, helping the team, the gaffer is blessed with what I’m doing, for immoderate games you person it wherever I consciousness similar I play truly good successful the build-up and assistance the squad advancement but you don’t get a extremity oregon assistance to amusement for that.

‘And past radical commencement questioning the numbers, truthful sometimes you person to instrumentality the extracurricular sound with a pinch of salt, but connected the different manus I emotion scoring goals and it was a bully feeling.

‘I deliberation I had to stroke the particulate disconnected the aged darts solemnisation due to the fact that it has been a small while, but it felt truthful bully successful beforehand of the South Stand to score.’

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