When Richarlison plays against Liverpool, you can be sure that he’ll get himself into the thick of the action somehow.
The Tottenham Hotspur forward infamously whipped out his pigeon celebration after a stoppage time equaliser at Anfield in April 2023, only for the late Diogo Jota to immediately score the winner at the other end of the pitch, earning him a cheeky social media dig from Jamie Carragher.
The ex-Everton man was summoned from the bench with Spurs trailing 2-0 to Arne Slot’s side this evening with 10 minutes of normal time remaining, and inevitably he was heavily involved.
Within three minutes of his introduction, Richarlison pounced on a loose ball in the Liverpool penalty area after the Reds failed to clear from a corner kick, with the goal setting up what might be lightly described as a grandstand finish in north London.
Richarlison antics trigger Szoboszlai suspension
In ‘celebrating’ his strike, the 28-year-old pushed Hugo Ekitike in the back of the neck with the French striker lying face-down on the ground, before then running to Dominik Szoboszlai and shouting in the Hungarian’s face.
Incredulously, our number 8 was booked by John Brooks, and it was his fifth yellow card in the Premier League this season. It means that he’ll now be suspended for our match against Wolves next Saturday, far from ideal when we’re already deprived of several other key players.
Mo Salah is away at the Africa Cup of Nations. Cody Gakpo, Wataru Endo and Joe Gomez had already been sidelined with injury. Conor Bradley appeared to take a knock shortly before half-time tonight, and Alexander Isak was forced off after being caught by Micky van de Ven in scoring our first goal.
Totally needless and shameful from Richarlison
We know that Richarlison has more than a bit of history with Liverpool – his weird comments about Virgil van Dijk and his childish social media antics after our Champions League final defeat in 2022 are evidence of that.
Even still, his actions immediately after scoring tonight were reprehensible. Why be so antagonistic towards Ekitike and Szoboszlai when you could just run straight back to the centre circle and get on with the game, at a time when the Reds were suddenly reeling?
The Brazil international still managed to get himself booked for having too much to say to Brooks at the full-time whistle (surprise, surprise…), but his provocative actions after scoring have contributed towards our number 8 being suspended next week for a nonexistent offence.
At least Liverpool had the last laugh on Richarlison after coming away with a 2-1 victory to move into the top five of the Premier League for a couple of hours at a minimum.
You can view Richarlison’s antics after his goal below, via @SkySportsPL on X:
Richarlison pulls one back for Spurs and there's now a glimmer of hope for the hosts! 👀 pic.twitter.com/oWBNaVMRVn
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 20, 2025
This is time for the manager to go this team are like headless chickens only going one way to the championship
Stay off drugs mkay sunshine.
Why was this Richarlison action not result in a booking?
If Wirtz & Bradley will be out for 3 games LFC will struggle to qualify for CL .Actually there four injured players Gomez, Wirtz,Bradley and Isak.The mistake LFC made was not aiming for a balanced team and splashed huge sums of money.LFC have no depth .Absences.of our no.8, Isak,Bradley,Endo& Gomez will hurt LF.
He is such a scumbag. Glad we got another one over on him.
Exactly the blue nose tw@t, hate him all day
Spuds proved proved themselves to be the lowest of the low. May they win nothing this year or anytime soon. All whilst their local rival carry on , and sweep up the league. Karma, Baby!
Love to see them relegated and him to break a f//clin leg
Our current squad lacks a Paul ince guvnor type of dm. Else Richarlison would have been silenced.
Ince was a snake. Constantly giving stories from the dressing room to the press. He did it at every club he ever played for. I assume he got paid by the papers.
At around the 70 minute mark, Brooks tried to even the match out by awarding a non-existant free kick to Spence who had been constantly diving for these and it paid off (his foul on Frimpong was ignored because the Liverpool player didn’t take to diving despite the contact being more than Spence had needed to hit the floor several times) and booking to Konate. Enter Richarleson and another dive winning a free kick from which they continue dive about and go for the penalty but did score. Richarleson gets away with throttling an opponent on the floor as did Rodrigo’s unnecessary assault on Kerkez. The game summed up by Ekitike, who together with Wirtz limped through most of the game and Isak had to go off after at least two vicious tackles intended to injure. Ekitike said after wards, it was a very physical game but a lot of it wasn’t football and we do not need this in our game.
Anyone who has a tattoo of himself on his own body can be deemed to be a bellend. Well done ya sad little sh!t.