Tottenham comfortably dominate our London Premier League Team of the Week, as compiled by WhoScored.com, after Spurs thrashed Stoke City 4-0 on Monday to close the gap between themselves and leaders Leicester City.
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Dele Alli has said his initial target with Tottenham Hotspur this season was to start 10 games, another illustration of the 20-year-old’s rapid progression from League One midfielder to Premier League title contender in the space of 12 months.
Eight points behind top-of-the-table Leicester City, Tottenham know that nothing short of a win will be good enough if they wish to chase down the Foxes.
“We are ready to put the pressure on Leicester. We think we can do it”.
“We’re very proud and we keep on moving on”.
And if the pressure is starting to get to Leicester, the message was a blunt one: Kane and his team-mates intend to crank it up even more between now and the last day of the season on 15 May.
“We show hunger and passion”, Pochettino said.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side lead the charts in pretty much every department apart from the all important points column where they trail Leicester by five with four games to play.
Stoke have proven to be a menace to Tottenham in recent times, completing a league double last season and drawing 2-2 at White Hart Lane in August, but a stinging Marko Arnautovic drive, parried by Hugo Lloris, was all they had to show for their first-half endeavours.
Kane is now 1/3 for top goalscorer, with Aguero 100/30 and Vardy – who faces an extended ban after his red card against West Ham – 7/1. “Thankfully I scored two and we won”.
Kane curled in the opener in the ninth minute at Stoke, but Tottenham only burst into life in the second half. As the title race heats up, Alli can ill afford to miss many more chances like this.
“One of the best performances – that says something”. Alli said. “Finishing training for me, I think”. We didn’t do the things we talked about before the game. “It sent a big signal that we are here, we are waiting, and we are fighting”. Maybe in a few games we were not at our best, but we’ve got a great team here and we do look like we’re getting stronger.
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“Sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition”, he added.
