James Maddison intended a dig at Roy Keane after racking up the winning objective in Tottenham Hotspur’s 1-0 success over Manchester United on Sunday.
Maddison’s close-range surface on 13 mins resolved a low-grade competition in north London, which came with completion of a week in which previous United midfielder Keane claimed: “Maddison isn’t bad when he’s not at the darts…but if you think he’s going to come back and get Spurs top six, you’re in cuckoo land.”
Speaking to the Stick to Football podcast, Keane included: “He’s a talented player, but if you’re a player in the Spurs dressing room and he’s back in the squad, you wouldn’t be looking and going, ‘James is back today — we’re going to be fine!'”
The 28-year-old significant his close-range surface by tossing a fictional dart and after that placing his finger to his lips in a silencing movement and after that, he informed Sky Sports: “There was a little bit of outside noise this week.
“People will certainly have their viewpoints. I intended to do my speaking on the pitch today so I wish there’s a specific couple of that appreciated me being the match-winner today.
“Nobody is more critical of myself than me. To be fair to the gaffer, he always talks about blocking out the outside noise, but sometimes it is difficult, it is constantly in your face.
“You can utilize it [as motivation], yet I assume the gaffer chooses it when we’re simply in our little bubble and simply paying attention to him.
“But sometimes it is difficult because it is constantly in your face these days with social media, WhatsApp and people sending stuff. You do see it and it is there. Sometimes [it is fed through to my phone], especially when it is a big high-profile name. But listen, it is about responding in the right way and I did that today.”
Spurs went up to 12th location in the table with United wasting away in 15th location and Tottenham employer Ange Postecoglou claimed of Maddison: “Everybody has mentioned his celebration, but I didn’t see it so I can’t comment on it, but it doesn’t surprise me that Madders didn’t accept what was being said about him and threw a shot back over the bow.
“It’s simply wonderful to have him back. He is a high quality gamer. If you simply take a look at his objectives return from midfield this year it’s still ideal up there. He obtained annoyed when he obtained harmed and to be truthful we really did not assume he would certainly be back for a number of weeks yet he has actually functioned very hard in training and done whatever right to ensure he was offered.
“I think that is the key thing for us and we have seen it with all our players, particularly in recent times. The injured lads are all desperate to contribute. They have seen what the other guys have gone through and are just pushing hard.”
Postecoglou recognized the tight spot Ruben Amorim remains in at United, that were missing out on 12 gamers via injury and health problem, yet the Australian instructor promptly included he would not be sending out any kind of compassion cards.
“If I check my office, I don’t have any sympathy cards from other managers, so that hasn’t happened,” Postecoglou claimed. “There’s definitely a few [injuries]. I could see Ruben there, players out of position, kids on the bench.
“Well, welcome to my globe. But that’s for one video game. Now do that for 2 months. Do that for 2 months. Any club. Do that for 2 months. I assumed Man United were great today, taking into consideration all that, and we had our days when we were great, we defeat Liverpool in this spell.”
