Every word Postecoglou said on Richarlison and why he's been too hard on his Tottenham players

You called for conviction from your players, did you get that today?

Yeah I thought we were better in that area. I thought Sonny really set the tone for us early on. Whenever he got the ball he was really positive with it. That's what you need from leadership and I think the rest of the lads fed off that and we were a lot more threatening in that front third than we have been. I thought we got the goals we deserved and could have had a couple more at least. So yeah really pleased with that aspect.

It was a big day for Richarlison with his goals but also his performance, how pleased were you with him?

Yeah Richy was great. Really important. I thought him and Pape coming in gave us some real energy. We were going to need it today with the midweek fixture and I thought they did that. Their general play was excellent but just their general energy was very good and obviously for Richy getting a couple of goals as a striker that was positive for him.

Those were his first goals for Tottenham with his feet, how important is that given what he's gone through?

Richy was important to us at the start of the year too, but he wasn't fully fit. I think you could tell he was kind of restricted with his movements. At times we had to play him out wide just to get him through games. Since he's come back, it's fair to say he feels a lot better physically and I think that's helped him mentally as well. Great for him to get two goals today, but it wasn't just his goals, it was his general work rate, energy and physicality.

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