Both clubs are hoping to break into the top four this season and know that a three points here today would help to keep the pressure on the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and even Leicester City, which now leads the EPL standings.
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“Every year you have to have the feeling to achieve the Champions League otherwise we should stop playing football”.
“It is step by step. It is a question of taking it step by step and seeing where we are in five months”.
Minutes after the interval, however, they were able to make the game safe as Kane’s shot found the back of the net via a deflection off Winston Reid and Kyle Walker’s wonderful curling effort in the 83rd minute rounded off an impressive result.
But he scored. It came as Heung-Min Son pushed the ball inside to Alli, whose shot was blocked, but it ricocheted to Kane who rolled Carl Jenkinson, easily, to then fire high into the roof of the net. “Fantastic, fantastic”, Pochettino said. “In particular, I think you can feel from the touchline the players believe in the way we play”.
The visitors badly missed injured playmaker Dimitri Payet, whose place was taken by Diafra Sakho in West Ham s only change.
Pochettino said, however, that it was crucial to maintain that level of performance if Spurs were to reach their goals.
– Harry Kane has the best goals to game ratio in London derbies (0.86) – having scored 12 goals in 14 London derbies.
Spurs striker Harry Kane made a slow start to the new season, though the 22-year-old appears to be back to his very best form.
“It’s a lot of things in his head”.
“It’s true that we show from the beginning of the season that we are consistent, but to aspire to try to win the title, maybe we need more”.
“He has a strong character, his fight is there, but he needs to be calm and that is an example”. He needs to improve but he is getting the experience. Lloris is the only Frenchman in Tottenham’s first-team squad but Pochettino insists his goalkeeper is ready for the match at White Hart Lane. The best word to describe is proud.
“It was a shock and we deserved to be beaten”, he said.
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“The players deserve first credit because it is always up to them to take the tools we provide”. The only blemish for them was a booking for Dele Alli, who was quickly substituted by a concerned Pochettino, to a standing ovation, after a clash with Mark Noble.
