Kane had started the match on the bench at White Hart Lane but was called upon as the Foxes looked to be on course for another famous victory in their impressive season.
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And Ranieri, who once tried to sign Pochettino from Espanyol during his time as Atletico Madrid boss in 1999, is tipping the Argentine coach to guide the Londoners to silverware ahead of the midweek showdown.
“I didn’t see if it was or not. It was good experience and I learned as the game wore on”, he told the Leicester Mercury.
Mauricio Pochettino: “It’s true we are happy and very pleased to get the draw at the end”. We dominated the whole game. “We have another chance”.
Ranieri, who bought 19-year-old winger Demarai Gray from Birmingham City last week, is also adamant that prolific Leicester forwards Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez will not be leaving the club.
They will then do battle at the King Power Stadium for a place in round four of the FA Cup as this repeat of the 1961 final could not separate the sides. “We already improve, but we need more, I believe”. We have a strong squad.
“We always say it – the strength of the squad and the character of the group is probably our biggest strength”. Will any young players dazzle us today? Highlighting the fact that “he warmed up with the team” in training on Monday, the experienced managed appeared content with the former non-league striker’s progress.
He said: “He is getting better, on Monday he made the warm up with the team and then he had a different job”.
“I always liked him as a player and I was very close to signing him”, said Ranieri.
“It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window, us as players just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best”. The club is in good shape, we have a great future and I’m raring to go, so we will see what happens.
Yet Claudio Ranieri’s team have been pulling off surprise all season, and it is hard to write them off completely here, as good as Tottenham have been – even though Lawrenson evidently has.
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‘I think he could be available. “We had eight players who had not been playing for some time, but now they played and they deserved a positive result – 2-2 is a positive result”. Well here Kane – on as a substitute with his team facing what would have been a rather wretched defeat – stepped up with only three minutes of the game remaining to score in similar fashion.
