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Sat 30 August 2025 18:20, UK <\/p>\n
Thomas Frank was left scratching his head as Tottenham fell to a 1-0 defeat against Bournemouth on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dominic Solanke was ruled out injured<\/a> as Richarlison continued to lead the line at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium<\/a> against the Cherries.<\/p>\n The Brazilian was at the heart of most things for Spurs, but it was his fellow countryman who scored the only goal, with Evanilson striking within five minutes.<\/p>\n It could have been very different for Frank<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n This article contains exclusive comments from former referee, Keith Hackett.<\/a><\/p>\n Richarlison should have been punished after Tottenham fury<\/strong><\/p>\n Semenyo was cautioned early on in North London and then appeared to trip Richarlison as he was breaking away just before the break.<\/p>\n Despite the foul being given and the home crowd screaming for a second yellow, Mike Dean agreed it was just a foul<\/a>, with no further punishment needed.<\/p>\n Former Premier League referee and PGMOL chief, Hackett, however, believed it was Richarlison<\/a> who should have been punished by the officials after watching footage.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a clear act of simulation,\u201d Hackett exclusively told Tottenham News.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf the law were applied correctly, then the player should have been yellow-carded.\u201d<\/p>\n After shining against Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Super Cup and scoring two in the Premier League opener, Tottenham fans were loving Richarlison.<\/a><\/p>\n He followed that up with another crucial part in Tottenham\u2019s 2-0 win at Manchester City.<\/p>\n The showdown with Bournemouth was one step too far, though, and it only proved to Frank that he needs another striker, even after Xavi Simons was announced.<\/p>\n Richarlison\u2019s stats vs Bournemouth<\/p>\n Looking at the stats from Fotmob<\/a>, it was clear that Tottenham just didn\u2019t do enough in the final third, and that halted any success for Richarlison, too, leading the line.<\/p>\n Either Richarlison dived, which looked unlikely, or Semenyo deserved a second yellow, with the easy way out clearly taken by the officials on this occasion.<\/p>\n Sign up for the daily\u00a0Tottenham News newsletter on Substack<\/a>\u00a0and our new\u00a0WhatsApp channel<\/a>\u00a0to have all the latest, breaking Tottenham Hotspur news sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Sat 30 August 2025 18:20, UK Thomas Frank was left scratching his head as Tottenham fell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,26331,11,12,15,16,5,3212,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-33653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-keith-hackett","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-richarlison","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tottenham](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Thomas-Frank-1-1024x576.jpg\")
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Credit: ImagoHow did Richarlison play vs Bournemouth?<\/p>\n\n