Romero's stunning brace earns Spurs a 2-2 draw at St James' Park

20:05He's just looking at Dan and I think it's probably the right call. Anthony Gordon with the penalty as well. Really confident as well when he took it and it was a really good strike. Yeah, I was really pleased with his impact. I think he definitely changed the dynamic, energy, pace, directness. He's put a lovely couple of crosses in for us and took his penalty really well. So a good little cameo for Ant. Ultimately, though, you go away with a point. The goals that went against you, two goals by Christian Romero, what did you make of the first equaliser and then, of course, right at the end to have that win taken away from you?

20:38Yeah, we're disappointed with the first one. It looks just quite a standard cross and we haven't defended it well enough. The second one, at that stage of the game, they're piling men in the box. I thought that we did well enough with the first contact and then we didn't stop the overhead kick and I haven't seen it again, but somehow it's gone in and it's a painful one for us to reflect on and take. Eddie, thank you very much for your time. A measured response there from Eddie Howe and he felt that certainly in the attacking field they weren't at their very best, Newcastle. What do you make of that result from their perspective?

21:09I think he'd be really disappointed, obviously, because you're leading twice in a game. I'm a big fan of Eddie Howes, but he made a substitution when he brings on Sha for Miley. And I know people say, well, you're trying to hang on to the game. It's another defender, another big body in there. But I feel sometimes what that does is it almost gets players in each other's way. And you can see that that felt like a consequence. You've defended corners all game. Now, Lewis Miley is a big guy. He can handle these situations. Everyone knows their jobs. Now, all of a sudden, someone else comes into it.

21:41And his first thought in his mind, I think, Fabian Shah, is I'm just going to win this. And then collisions can happen. And I felt that's what a consequence of that goal. So sometimes bringing on a substitute just to hang on to the game doesn't always work. Sometimes it can have a negative effect because you're going OK. You're hanging on to the game. But the flip side is they can see the corner and you can say, why didn't I make that change? But I don't always like substitutions like that. And he'll be disappointed, but there are a lot of positive signs. You know, I look at Newcastle and until they get Vista back and they can get that bit of pace, you know, in that wide area, there's no doubt he's going to be an excellent signing for them.

22:17That's how we're really going to start to judge them, I think, Micah. Yeah, agreed. But I've got to go to a break, so do you want to take us? You're all right, thanks. Sorry, I thought it was too long there. I was going to let you talk, don't worry about it. There's plenty of time. What do you think? Do you know what Micah's trying to rush to? I want to get to City! Micah's trying to rush to City. We'll get to the bottom of this eventually because it was an incredible game at Craven Cottage. We'll bring you that. We'll also bring you the best of the Everton game as well where Jack Grealish got the goal.

22:46But yeah, best of tonight's action coming up next.

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23:31Christian Romero scored two goals including that equaliser for Tottenham to earn them a point at St James' Park it finished 2-2 and you think if you've got four goals in a game you've had a pretty good return Fulham got four at Craven Cottage didn't even win it they were up against Manchester City who started so well yeah they were brilliant Ireland gets his 100th goal. Great moment for him. Really good play by Doku. You see his father in the crowd there. It's a really good finish. I mean, he's just stood still. But it's a movement that he needs to do a little bit more sometimes. He always goes to that back post.

24:08But it's a really good finish. But he's not only doing goals now, Kels. He's got an assist now as well. People said he couldn't play. Look at that from Reinders. Great run, lovely little through ball. At this point, City are cruising. And they were cruising even more when Phil Foden scored. Well, I mean, in this space there, Kels, I really think he's one of the best in world football. Just getting the ball really quick in that space, taking the shot, absolutely brilliant. So then Emile Smith-Rowe, just before half-time. Diving headers. Diving headers, the night of diving headers. That's a good one as well.

24:47And it's 3-1. Still, though, you're thinking City are pretty comfortable, if not even more comfortable. Even more comfortable. I mean, Haaland gets a bit lucky there with that touch, I think, there. But Foden, again, making runs into the box, finishing it. City looked like there was, again, cruising. Are you having this as a Sander Burgum goal, Micah? Well, I mean, it must not be going on target. It was going wide there, you see. And that's 5-1. It looked like it could have been six, seven or eight. At that point, you're calling it, aren't you? You've called the patient at that stage. If you look at all the goals, Man City are basically conceding.

25:27It's all at the edge of the box. You're all going together back and no one's worrying about that space. Again, here, just at the edge of the box. Chuck Quasey. Five-three. Now I was starting to sweat. And on 72 minutes. Well, you was definitely starting to sweat at this point. And he made good substitutions. Josh King was coming on and made a massive impact, making things happen. just on side as we can see here. And now the panic starts to set in. And I've been in this position as a player. It's horrible. You can see everyone is trying to block things. They get that little bit of luck. The crowd are up.

25:59Everything is starting to happen really quickly. And Fulham and the manager in the ascendancy. So then we're thinking they can't. They can't get back in it. And they had that chance. Oh, my God. Quarriol off the line. I mean, really good play. King. King there. You just think he's going to get a draw out of it. But luckily Guardiola's there to save it off the line. Guardiola's there. Guardiola. I said Guardiola. You didn't. You said Guardiola. Guardiola was there. Guardiola would have been in his mind. We've all made mistakes today. I'm nervous. Listen, to calm your nerves, Manchester City are two points behind Arsenal, who, of course, are going to be in action tomorrow evening.

26:42but they're just starting to ramp up the pressure at this stage of the season before we start to head into the real drama of Christmas. But it was a hugely significant game for Erling Haaland as well because that goal that we saw him score was his 100th in the Premier League. He's the fastest player in Premier League history to get to 100 goals. He's done it in 111 games. He is well clear of second place Alan Shearer who took 124 games to get there and he spoke to Harriet Pryor about it after the match. Well, Erling, that was an incredibly mad game of football. First of all, just let's get your reaction to that one.

27:18Yeah, I think if you're sitting home now, you enjoy that game. It was a chaos game and nine goals in the game is a lot. So in the end, we win and we're happy. But it's not the best game, no. Well, nine goals in that game, but you got the first one. and that does mean that you are now the fastest player ever to 100 Premier League goals. How does that feel? Yeah, it's huge, and I'm really proud. Yeah, of course, it's a massive thing, and 100 club is a nice thing to be in, and I'm happy. You've got your dad watching on as well. I know you say you don't think too much about records, but was that one you were very keen to break?

27:59Yeah, I knew about this, and yeah, that's what I try to do. I tried to help the team with scoring goals and yeah that's my job. A couple of games without a goal, how keen were you to get that 100 tonight? Every game is a different game and you can't think of the games that's been. You need to focus ahead and the reality is we lost against Newcastle and Leverkusen and now we won two in a row so we need to keep going. It's a tough schedule, it's many games now in the next month. So game by game and recover as best as possible. Tell me about the expectations you put on yourself. Do you expect yourself to score in every single game?

28:46I mean, I don't want to say the words, but when you're striker for Man City, you should be delivering great numbers and that's my job. People should criticise me if I don't. That's normally what people do. So in the end, as I said, I should deliver. Only 25 years old. How much more have you got to give? Have you got your sights set on that other Alan Shearer record one day? I know about it, but I don't think too much about it. And finally, just in the wider picture, the grand scheme of things, only two points off of Arsenal at the top of that table. Now, how significant could this game be when it comes to that title race?

29:28Of course, it's important. Arsenal came here and they won as well. So we know how difficult it is to come here and Fulham is a great team. But again, we shouldn't think too much about Arsenal. We should focus on ourselves, try to improve and avoid things like this happen today because it's not good enough. And we all know this and we need to improve as a team. That's what our focus should be. Well, congratulations. It is a record-breaking night and you also take away the player of the match trophy and celebrate. A pleasure to get it from you. Thank you, guys. And having joined the 100 Club, you can watch Erling Haaland Premier League 100 Club 6 o 'clock tomorrow.

30:09She's got a quick edit. You can watch that Christmas Day. Yeah, instead of the Grinch. You can watch Erling Haaland. Rinders would be more pertinent for Christmas Day. Sky Sports Premier League, before we get all our coverage underway ahead of the six games that you can see on Sky Sports tomorrow. Erling Haaland's friend, Jack Grealish, was on the score sheet for Everton. Really important result for them. They went to Bournemouth, who are having a bit of a wobble, and they got the victory. It took a bit of a deflection as well, this one, Micah. Yeah, but it was a big performance from them. David Moyes said in an interview last week that he wants more goals from Jack, and to get the goal and three points, it's massive for Everton.

30:48I mean, Barry's been struggling up front. You know, he asked us before the game where the goals are going to come from. And Di, Grealish, even Jewsby Hall's been chipping in as well. But it's a big moment for him. You know what's great to see with Jack? Just to see him smiling and looking like he's enjoying his football again. Because at Manchester City, it felt like a difficult time for him. It felt like a bit of a chore. You know, he was having to come on, play a bit of a bit part. He's too good for that. And the Evertonians would love him. You know, he's a big moments player and he's got his confidence back.

31:17And we all love Jack Grealish playing well. He's such an exciting English talent. And it's three points that take Everton into the top half of the table. Here's what Jack Grealish made of it. He's with Emma Saunders. A bit of luck, I suppose, ultimately with a finish, but they said in commentary, you don't score is what they said ultimately, so you'd concur. No, I think, you know, I've scored two goals now here this season. One was like a tackle and then one was a deflection, but, you know, I got hammered for years for not scoring, so I'm taking both of the goals. And, yeah, it's good, you know, just to be contributing It's a brilliant team.

31:53I love the manager to peace. I've only known him a few months and I can't speak highly enough of him as a person. How he makes me feel and how he makes me want to go there and play for him. Credit to him. We're doing well. I think the last game was... We've had a few games like that at home where we've conceded quite early and then we've just flopped a little bit for the rest of the game. Tottenham, Newcastle. But I feel like we started well in the top half of the league now. So, yeah. Yeah, neither of his goals this season, as he said, have been polished finishes. But look, he's clearly loving life at Everton.

32:29He's kissing the badge. He's in front of the Everton fans. They love him. Micah, you speak to him. How much is he enjoying life there? I think all fans adore him. Man City fans love him too. But he got, I wouldn't say stale, but you know when you're in one week and then you're out the next, it's hard to get that little bit of consistency. Let's not forget he's a treble winner at Man City and he was brilliant in that season. But I think in terms of himself, he's playing with a little bit more freedom, a little bit more confidence. He knows he's the main man in this side, along with Njai. At Man City, he was just one of many good players or top players in that side.

33:06But you can see within his performance that he's not always coming back and passing back. He's actually trying to take people on. But the thing is, though, you need to add a little bit more goals. You know, for all his good play, that's what he's judged on now. Stats, goals and assists. So I'm delighted for him and he's a happy man. And he got the goal this evening. They've got Everton all three points to take them into the top half of the table. A couple of big goals for Tottenham from Christian Romero, celebrated by Thomas Frank on the touchline as they came from behind twice to draw 2-1 against Newcastle.

33:37He's been talking to Pien Merlinstein. Thomas, 2-2 in the end, a point to take. What did that performance from your side show you tonight? I think it showed fantastic mentality and character. Every team needs that. It's been a tough week, I think that's fair to say. We played the fourth game in 10 days, third away game. We're going away to Newcastle St James Park, which is always a difficult place to come. and the courage and mentality the players showed throughout the game was great. I think the first 25 minutes we suffered, but you need to suffer up here at times. After that, I think, grew into the game.

34:22I think last 60, I'm very happy with that performance overall. And the bounce-back mentality both overall but also in the game, the ability to react to setback was great. first 1-0 down and then 2-1 down where I think it's absolutely a big mistake from the VAR. I think Thomas the Ref did very well to do the ref call and they encouraged the refereeing call on the pitch. So for me that's never a penalty. So that late to still come back just shows a lot. So I'm very happy with that. I think our fans were excellent, 3 ,000 fans traveling up here. It's a Tuesday night. It's everything we could hear throughout the game.

35:04also the way they they supported Vic throughout the game I liked that a lot when you look at the two goals from Christian Romero of course they were important goals because each time it was an equalizer but just how important of a player is he and what will that do for his confidence as well yeah I know coach he is a he's a top top player we all know that and I think the I think all his performance today was was very good I think he was who's very strong defensively won a lot of duels with and with Voldemort and but also adding two goals I think the first header is is excellent striker goal I haven't seen many strikers score like that two shots on target two goals as well which of course were two very important goals to get you that point and you mentioned that the determination is this what you were looking for this kind of reaction that you wanted to see after recent performances yeah but I think you know recent performance I think there's one thing I think I did The PSG performance was very, very good in many ways.

36:02I think there were some very good bits in the Fulham performance as well. Today we had 60 minutes, very good, so it still needs to be 90. But I think the overall extra determination is what we need when you have a tough spell. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. See you soon. Bye. Well, determination was needed after a tough spell, and that's what they got in this game. That kind of resilience, that ability to come back, especially from what he thought was an incorrect penalty decision. and we had your views on that a little bit earlier on. It does settle, perhaps, the Tottenham fans for the time being.

36:34It does quieten down the noise around Thomas Frank's future for a little while. But in order to build on that, he's got Brentford next, his old side. At home. At home, where it's been difficult for them. What has to happen next, Jamie? Exactly what you said. Start playing well at home. You know, the Spurs fans pay an enormous amount of money to go and watch that team week in, week out, and they're not seeing good enough football right now. The quality isn't there. the goals, the excitement. They've got the best stadia, but the team is playing as poorly as anybody in terms of their home form. That has to change and it's got to shift quickly.

37:07And it has to start with Brentford, which won't be easy for a manager playing against his old side. Don't get in your own way. You've got a Tottenham side. Don't think too much about what Brentford are going to do. You're the team with, I would say, better players than Brentford, so can you capitalise it? Go on the front foot. You're not at a club like where you're at Brentford where you're trying to maybe stop other sides. Now it's up to you to go and make sure that you provoke the situation and you become the leader in this one. So I think he needs to really start winning big home games. Then things can change.

37:37You know, it's take the pressure off him. There's a lot of Prague as well in the Champions League at home. Yeah, so they've got games that they can win, Micah, but they've got to make the home form or the stadium a fortress. You know, by getting players like Kulichewski back, and Madison's obviously going to be out for a long while. They need a bit more creativity. Obviously, Kudus was that spark today, but I want to see more from Brennan Johnson. I want to see more from Richarlison. I need Solanke back. So there are some positive signs to come, but they've got to make sure they start on Saturday.

38:01They can't afford to have that setback the weekend. And Bergwahl, how do you think he performed today? You mentioned him before the game in terms of his energy to the side. Yeah, I thought he started OK. He looks a little bit nervous to start. Then he got into it. He had a really good flick, had showed real pace and energy in terms of the game. I think there's more to come from him. But, you know, he's been at the team, Mikey. You know when you're a player that hasn't had that confidence on the manager's backing, you need to earn that again. And it needs to get that confidence back. but I do really like him and I think he gave the midfield something today.

38:29Yeah, and in terms of Kudus, just very quickly, he made the substitution, took Kudus off. Yeah. That was risky because that hadn't worked out for Tottenham. I couldn't believe it, Kelly, if I'm honest. But, you know, not that it really had an impact on the game, but Kudus is the one player that you'd expect to score. And I'm sure, like, a lot of Spurs say, why are you taking him off? But it didn't matter. They got the goal and that was the all-important one. You know, it gives them a really good point. They've been looking forward to this. He said 3 ,000 Spurs fans went up there. They supported the team.

38:54They got behind Vicario. He had a really good game today as well. So there was a lot of positives. It was a really important point, but they've got to make sure to get three points on Saturday. Let's take a look at what else is coming up for you on Sky Sports. There is a host of action. Arsenal against Brentford, 7.30 kickoff in that game. Also for Brighton Villa, Burnley Crystal Palace, Wolves Nottingham Forest. So you can watch that on Multiview as well on Sky Sports Plus because the other games are across a whole host of different sporting channels. Leeds against Chelsea kicks off at 8.15 So too does Liverpool against Sunderland And all the coverage to build up to that will be underway at 6.30 After that Erling Haaland Premier League 100 Club programme Then on Thursday another big game It's Manchester United against West Ham That one kicks off at 8 o 'clock And you'll be able to see it on Sky Sports Premier League What night we've had though this evening We've got this full round of midweek matches underway with three fixtures and 14 goals.

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