Tottenham have been very inconsistent at the beginning of this season, with the Lilywhites finding themselves in a concerning 11th heading into Christmas. This pattern continued against Liverpool with a shocking 6-3 defeat for Tottenham. The tendency to gift goals to the opposition has not been fixed with Tottenham conceding 13 at home in their last 3 matches.
Liverpool struck first in the 23rd minute as Trent Alexander-Arnold fizzed the ball across the face of goal finding Luis Diaz' head who converted it, placing his header into the bottom right corner.
Only 12 minutes later, Liverpool had their second through their number 10 Alexis Mac Allister, as a looping cross was swung in from Andy Robertson, with Dominik Szoboszlai and Djed Spence contesting for the header, with the ball coming of the English full-back’s shoulder looping towards the danger zone with the Argentine being first to react and scoring a second header of the game for Liverpool.
However, in the 41st minute Tottenham were given a lifeline as James Maddison scored his 8th goal in the Premier League this season, with Kulusevski pouncing on Liverpool's dangerous passing out from the back as Mac Allister was intercepted by the Swedish attacker, with the ball finding the Tottenham number 10 who had an abundance of space and time, wrapped it into the bottom corner past the Liverpool Goalkeeper Alisson.
Although, only 5 minutes later Liverpool had a third with Tottenham's open defence costing them yet again with Liverpool's Hungarian Szoboszlai recieving a perfectly weighted pass through from Mohamed Salah and cleverly poking the ball through Fraser Forster's legs. As for Salah, this assist makes him the first player in Premier League history to make it to 10 goals and assists before Christmas.
Speaking of the Egyptian, it was him who struck first early into the second half with Liverpool catching Tottenham on the break as Cody Gakpo slid the ball across the face of goal only for it to be cleared by Archie Gray, although only as far as Szoboszlai who drilled the ball low, but was yet again cleeared of the line by Gray, frustratingly for him into Salah's path who rolled it home for his first and Liverpool's fourth of the game.
Only 7 minutes later, Tottenham's weaknesses really began to show, with Szoboszlai putting it on a plate for Salah, carving Tottenham's open defence, as he slotted it past the Englishman in goal for Tottenham.
Then in the 72nd minute, Tottenham got one back through arguably their best player this season, Dejan Kulusevski as record signing Dominic Solanke played a delicate chip over the Liverpool defence, for the Swede to sweetly volley past the Brazilian, Alisson.
With 7 minutes to go, Tottenham had another, through the man who got the assist for Kulusevski. A ball was looped in by Lucas Bergvall, asking questions of the Liverpool defence, as substitute Brennan Johnson beat Andy Robertson to a header finding Solanke who acrobatically placed it into the bottom corner. A buzzing feeling around the stadium started, was there still a chance for Tottenham to get this back.
However, just two minutes later all hope was lost as the Colombian winger Luiz Diaz drilled the ball into the bottom corner to make it SIX for his side, settling the game and securing the three points for Liverpool away from home.
Fraser Forster - 3
After the poor performance on Thursday against Manchester United, the Englishman played an early pass which fell to Salah, which would not help his confidence.
He went on to concede 6, with a couple of them potentially being avoidable but this is mainly as a result of is inability to play it out from the back as Ange Postecoglou likes to play, which was costly for Spurs.
Pedro Porro - 5
Another poor performance for the Spanish full-back as he was exploited on a number of occasions and dispossessed many times too. Although, he did make some vital tackles in some stages of the game.
Radu Dragusin - 4
The Romanian who has stepped in on a number of occasions this season for an injured Cristian Romero had a tough game with his passes not finding a teammate on a number of occasions, and never looked confident on keeping Liverpool out. For Liverpool's third he was caught out of position which Szoboszlai capitalised on.
Archie Gray - 6
The out of position 18 year old looked confident on the ball when playing out from the back and made some vital challenges. Although, he was caught out of position on a number of occasions against a ruthless Liverpool side.
Djed Spence - 6
The inform full-back had another solid game against Liverpool, keeping the ball well which is great for Ange's system, although he lost his man - which was usually Salah - a few times who ended up with a brace in a very tough challenge for Spence.
Yves Bissouma - 6
The number 8 showed lots of energy winning the ball back on a number of occasions showing why he is Tottenham's number 8, but with a few misplaced passes and 6 conceded it was not the best game for him as a whole.
Pape Sarr - 4
He had quiet game before being taken off for Lucas Bergvall in the 58th minute, topping off a rather mediocre performance.
James Maddison - 8
James Maddison has continued his run of brilliant form, grabbing himself a goal from the edge of the box, even though Tottenham's performance was poor, the number 10 has a great game before harshly being brought off in the 58th minute.
Dejan Kulusevski - 8.5
Kulusevski scored a beautiful volley to make it 5 in 5 for the Swede who is in great form and has had a brilliant start to the season. He was pulling the strings in midfield and never showed signs of slowing down with high press, even forcing a mistake from Mac Allister for James Maddison's goal.
Son Heung-Min - 6
A poor performance from the Korean capped off a disappointing evening for the Lilywhites as he struggled to make any progress down the left wing with any attempt being brought to a halt. After a great performance midweek the Spurs and South Korean captain will be disappointed with his performance and the team's as a whole.
Dominic Solanke - 8
Solanke had a great game making the most of the few chances that Tottenham created, grabbing himself a goal and an assist in a really impressive start to his Tottenham career as their record signing in the summer transfer window.
Substitutes
Lucas Bergvall - 5
The young Swede was brought on in the 58th minute for James Maddison, who then went on to have a quiet rest of the game, although he did send a slow looping ball over to Brennan Johnson who nodded it to Solanke for Tottenham's third and final of the night.
Brennan Johnson - 6
The Welsh winger also had a quiet game after being brough on for Pape Sarr in the 58th minute, but picked up a previously mentioned assist for Solanke with Johnsons pinpoint header finding the Englishman.
Timo Werner - N/A
The rapid German winger did not have enough time to influence the game and was relatively quiet throughout his 10 minutes on the pitch.
