LONDON — Ange Postecoglou praised Brennan Johnson‘s potential to bounce again from the web abuse that he has acquired because the winger scored the successful objective for Tottenham of their 3-1 win over Brentford within the Premier League on Saturday.
Johnson scored Spurs’ second objective of their come-from-behind victory three days after his 92nd-minute strike noticed Spurs advance into the Carabao Cup round-of-16 at Coventry Metropolis’s expense.
The 23-year-old’s upturn in fortunes got here after he deactivated his Instagram account following the heavy criticism he acquired within the wake of Spurs’ north London derby defeat final Sunday.
“Brennan’s had a high week. He scored within the cup to get us by way of and scored the winner, and scored a improbable objective once more right this moment to get us there [win over Brentford],” Postecoglou advised his postmatch information convention.
“He was an actual risk all over. And he had a little bit of a troublesome interval final week. However typically it provides you perspective about what’s vital and what’s vital to Brennan is that he is a much-loved teammate.
“Like I mentioned final week, he works laborious day by day and I do know he’ll make a huge impact for our membership.”
Saturday’s match marked the primary time by which Johnson has scored in back-to-back video games for Spurs since arriving on the membership in a £47.5 million ($59.8m) deal final summer season.
“I had a say on social media and all that stuff through the week, however anybody who watches Brennan play, in the event that they assume he would not give every little thing he can each week and work as laborious as he can for the staff, and the way a lot he cares, I would be very shocked,” Postecoglou mentioned.
“However that is the one aspect, like I mentioned, for each footballer you have to undergo tough moments and he is dealt with it rather well. And I believe it provides you perspective that when the subsequent tough second comes — inevitably it at all times comes — I am certain he’ll know what’s vital to him.”
Postecoglou’s staff discovered themselves behind inside the primary minute of their conflict with Brentford in north London, however rallied impressively to stage by way of Dominic Solanke who scored his first objective for the membership seven minutes later earlier than Johnson put Spurs forward. James Maddison put the consequence past doubt with a objective late within the second half.
“It wasn’t a super begin clearly, however to be trustworthy it was prefer it by no means occurred. The boys simply kind of went at it. That is what we needed to do,” the Spurs boss mentioned.
“I form of knew Brentford … They will be fairly aggressive with and with out the ball and we love that a part of the sport and we thought if we actually kind of introduced our personal vitality and depth that we all know we are able to, with and with out the ball, we may trigger them loads of issues, and we have been relentless the entire recreation. And I assumed we deserved the win.”