Danny Rose will miss Tottenham’s match away to Stoke City on Saturday, as Mauricio Pochettino considers selecting Moussa Sissoko.
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And the South Korea global doubled his tally ten minutes after the break before Dele Alli added a third moments later.
But Pochettino revealed Danny Rose, who also suffered a hamstring injury on worldwide duty with England, will miss the Stoke game and next week’s Champions League opener against Monaco.
“We have a very hard season with the Champions League and everything and it’s important we have everyone competing”, he said.
Kane broke his lengthy goal drought as Spurs swept aside Stoke 4-0 to give themselves the flawless prelude to their return to the Champions League against Monaco.
A visit back to Stoke may just be what they need given their most recent trip there ended in such jubilation, but with Monaco to come in the Champions League on Wednesday a confidence-boosting victory is nearly imperative to finally kick Kane and his team-mates into gear.
Pochettino’s belief stems from last term and Kane’s failure to score in his first eight matches of the season.
“Fifty in the Premier League is a great achievement and here’s to the next 50, preferably even quicker”.
It was Kane’s first in 10 games for club and country and his 50th Premier League goal in 87 top-flight appearances as he reached a welcome landmark ahead of the start of Spurs’ Champions League campaign next week.
Son, who joined the north London club from Bayer Leverkusen last summer, was linked with a return to Germany in recent months, with both Schalke and Wolfsburg credited with interest in the 24-year-old.
It was a miserable afternoon for the home side, who also had boss Mark Hughes sent to the stands in the first half. It was obviously good play from them but we should have made it more hard.
“We haven’t been scoring goals and then been going behind – and once we go behind we are not able to deal with it”.
“My first time I went training at Wembley, the stadium was unbelievable”.
“I was relaxed, I was in Spain, not too anxious about that”, he said of deadline day. The assistant referee had not flagged for a foul (on Jon Walters) and the referee then thought it was the right decision to book Marko when he was taking evasive action.
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“We want and we expect top performances in every game – to play well, score goals – and that is hard”.
