“I think that after four games unbeaten you can see that the players are thinking about the new season, the new challenge”, Pochettino said. We worked hard to forget last season and focus on the present. I feel the squad we have today, because it was the case with Sissoko, Vincent Janssen, [Victor] Wanyama, Harry Kane, Lloris, or Eriksen. It will stop the rumours and he can be focused only on playing football. “But we hope it’s not a big problem and that he recovers as soon as possible”, Pochettino said.
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“I was happy before in the last few days (of the window) with the squad we had then and when we add three players [in the] last few days”. In fact, scoring 50 goals in 90 league matches would make Kane the 11th fastest premier league player ever to reach this milestone, ahead of Spurs legend Teddy Sheringham and just behind Robbie Fowler.
“Another day, another time, you can’t improve”, added Pochettino, “but in this game it was flawless and I think we fully deserved the result”.
The Danish playmaker has been at the centre of persistent rumours about his future as Italian clubs AC Milan and Juventus and French Champions Paris St Germain all expressed an interest in signing him.
His movement was very good: at times, his positioning toward the right wing dragged Jan Vertonghen sideways and allowed Jonathan Walters space to attack from a diagonal angle.
“When you play a lot of games, you need to keep your level”. The Potters had started the game in good form with Glenn Whelan’s deflected volley whistling off target after a quarter of an hour.
“We want and we expect top performances in every game – to play well, score goals – and that is hard”.
The Korean global hit the back of the net in both halves before Dele Alli and Harry Kane added gloss to the scoreline for Mauricio Pochettino’s charges.
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That goal came with 20 minutes to go through Kane after he applied a simple finish to Son’s cross having first miskicked an attempt from Eriksen’s cross on the other flank.
