Harry Kane continued his goalscoring form on his return to club duty as he helped Tottenham Hotspur, featuring eight Englishmen, to a thumping 4-1 win over West Ham United.
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Tottenham were leading 3-0 when Alli became involved in an altercation with Mark Noble after the West Ham midfielder had made an innocuous tap on Kane.
Adrian was alert to divert a strong effort at goal from Son Heung-Min and Alli looped a header from the rebound at goal, only for the crossbar to come to West Ham’s rescue.
It could easily have already been more.
West Ham’s first attempt of a poor second half in which tempers flared did not come until the final 20 minutes when Reid headed straight at Hugo Lloris. They were more a team.
Mauricio Pochettino insists it is too early to talk about Tottenham as title contenders despite an emphatic 4-1 win over West Ham. West Ham ‘s Manuel Lanzini could only score a late consolation.
Son played a perfectly-weighted pass inside the box and Walker nonchalantly curled the ball into the far corner with the outside of his right boot.
Even at the death Pochettino’s team still threatened when Ryan Mason hit the post from 30 yards out.
This is the most promising Spurs outfit for many a year. They were better than us. But, more than the goals, he played like a man possessed.
Played for both – Frederic Kanoute: At the age of 22, Kanoute was brought to West Ham by Harry Redknapp in 2000, scoring 29 times in 84 league appearances before they were relegated in 2003. He proved his goalscoring threat before injury intervened with three in four (two in the Europa League) and could cause problems for the Hammers defence from a deeper position now that he’s rediscovered his match fitness.
Despite it stretching their unbeaten league run to 12 games and taking Spurs to four points off the top, Pochettino refused to get carried away. “We didn’t do that and as a result Spurs pounced on our poor display and we suffered”.
Tottenham have lost just once in this Premier League campaign, but Eric Dier tempered expectations. I was trying to put my foot through it and probably got a bit excited. “We’re going to keep doing what we’ve been doing since the beginning of the season”. If you ask any Spurs player, that’s what they’d tell you.
“It was a high level of performance”.
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“I say that first to the players because they showed an unbelievable performance and then to our fans, they supported us throughout the 95 minutes”.
