Igor Tudor picks up his first point as Tottenham manager as a late Richarlison equaliser earns Spurs a crucial, and thoroughly deserved, draw away at Liverpool.

It had already been a miserable weekend for Tottenham Hotspur before a ball was even kicked at Anfield.

Sitting just a point above the relegation zone heading into the round, Spurs watched both 17th-placed Nottingham Forest and 18th-placed West Ham somehow grind out points from their own fixtures, leaving the North London side level on points with the bottom three.

Add to that the heavy confidence blow from midweek’s 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid, along with four fresh injury setbacks before this trip to Merseyside, and the picture looked bleak.

Yet somehow, despite everything stacked against them, Tottenham still managed to walk away from Anfield with a point that could prove massive in their fight to stay up.

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Setting his side up in what looked like a proper Sean Dyche-esque relegation scrap formation, Igor Tudor deployed a compact and disciplined 4-4-2, and for a brief period, it actually allowed Spurs to make the brighter start against a Liverpool side that looked surprisingly flat.

However, that early promise was ruined when Dominik Szoboszlai stepped up...