Richy quietly continues impressive Premier League run

He might have endured injury woes this season, but Richarlison is quietly enjoying a fine goalscoring run in the Premier League.

Hit by three separate injuries this season, Richy bagged a fourth goal in his last five games in the top flight in Monday night's defeat to Nottingham Forest, a textbook header from Pedro Porro's cross to make it 2-1 late in the game. Unfortunately, that's how it finished at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Unavailable for 21 of our 33 Premier League games this term, it has certainly been a difficult season for the Brazilian, but his recent sequence emphasises the impact he can have when available.

It's a run which began back in January when we travelled to Everton, the forward bundled the ball home late in that game before registering against Leicester the following weekend.

Starting at Brentford immediately after that, a calf injury picked up in our subsequent League Cup semi-final second leg at Liverpool then saw him miss the next two months of action before he returned in our 4-2 defeat at Wolves just over a week ago.

He struck at Molineux, again bundling the ball across the line, before he then found the target against Forest. That was his 20th in our colours since his switch from Everton in the summer of 2022.

It also marks the forward's best run of form for us since he scored nine in eight league games between December, 2023, and February, 2024.