“He gives his best for the team, the effort was great and you know he only needs time to score again”, the Argentine told a news conference.
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They may not be natural goalscorers, but as members of a collective they are excellent, and their skills would bring other players into the game.
Kane is refusing to entertain talk of a scoring drought despite going five games without a goal for Spurs for the first time in 18 months and after he was interviewed by the Premier League’s record goalscorer Alan Shearer last week, he was reassured the goals will start to flow again.
The hitman was on fire last season and found the back of the net on 31 occasions for Spurs, but he is yet to net this season for the club, although he has got off the mark with England.
TOTTENHAM boss Mauricio Pochettino has backed goal-shy striker Harry Kane to rediscover his goalscoring touch after drawing another blank as his side lifted the burden of a winless start against Sunderland yesterday.
“I’m not fussed at all”, said Kane.
However, the Black Cats enjoyed the better of the game for long periods with Ola Toivonen’s presence adding brawn to the pace of Jermain Defoe and Jeremain Lens and Fabio Borini’s invention, with Defoe and substitute Jack Rodwell both hitting the woodwork. “The team. Everyone has targets individually but first it is for the team”. “In that time you have to keep doing the right things for the team and working hard”.
“But I am very pleased with the players”.
Whether dropping deep is part of his brief or borne of a need to get involved in the play rather than waiting up front, he did provide four assists in the Premier League last season, with half of his chances created coming from the zone outside the opposition box.
Opposite number Dick Advocaat was of a different opinion.
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“We’re playing well enough to be up there in the top four”. It’s a really attractive way of playing, only we did not get the points we deserved.
