The Tottenham player who kept getting ignored in draw at Newcastle

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It's time for a new episode of our podcast Talking Tottenham with our Spurs correspondents Alasdair Gold and Ryan Taylor

One Tottenham player in particular was left frustrated at points during the 2-2 draw at Newcastle on Tuesday night in the Premier League.

Spurs came from behind twice with goals from captain Cristian Romero cancelling out Bruno Guimaraes 71st minute strike and Anthony Gordon's penalty in the 86th minute. The Spurs centre-back proved to be the visitor's best attacking player on the night with a diving header and an overhead kick grabbing the point at St James' Park.

While he had to take the game by the scruff of the neck, one of Spurs' attackers had tried to do the same only for his team-mates to fail to notice what he was doing.

Brennan Johnson returned to the starting line-up for the first time in almost a month and he caused Tino Livramento problems, both in getting past him on a couple of occasions and also his runs off the ball in behind the Newcastle defence.

The Wales international made a string of well-timed sprints off the ball only to find Pedro Porro and Mohammed Kudus more inclined to repeatedly pass sideways between each other. The runs in behind Newcastle's big defenders might just have been the perfect way to cause them problems had anyone actually passed to the 24-year-old, who also made a crucial goal line block from Livramento's shot in the second half.

Johnson has scored 22 goals for the club in the past year or so and has proved his ability to make well-timed runs into the box to find the net, however on this occasion none of his team-mates looked to get the ball to him when he set off.

Johnson's performance was among the topics our Spurs reporters Alasdair Gold and Ryan Taylor discussed in the latest episode of their podcast Talking Tottenham.