RONALD KOEMAN aimed to avoid one over the eight.
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Manchester City take on Sunderland in the late game on Saturday that kicks-off at 18h30 South African time.
IN this era of breeze-block, corporate stadiums, Goodison Park on opening day is a real throwback.
Tottenham’s Erik Lamela celebrates his equaliser in the 1-1 draw at Everton.
Tottenham’s Kenya midfielder Victor Wanyama, signed from Southampton in the close-season, was penalised as he tripped Kevin Mirallas to halt the Belgian’s progress towards goal.
With such a poor start, Spurs struggled to get their act together and were lucky not to go further behind when a poor backpass from Danny Rose allowed Gerard Deulofeu to stride in. This was his 700th game, and while the legs are creaking, the brain is as sharp as ever.
However, the frontman didnt perform to his best in Saturdays season opener against Everton as the sides played out a 1-1 draw. It took them half an hour for a decent attack.
Lamela equalised in the 59th minute after Everton had claimed a deserved lead through Ross Barkley’s early goal.
Kane scored 28 goals in all competitions for Tottenham last season, and while he maintained good scoring form late in the campaign, failed to translate that into goals for England in France.
“The reaction of the crowd and fans was fantastic”.
I think in the first 45 minutes we showed a lack of energy and they were better.
“We know it would be hard towards the end because they have really good players, scoring players”. The players need to improve in that. Of course they had two big opportunities, and they were great saves by Maarten Stekelenburg.
“We had a lot of players involved in the Euros and it is always hard that they become fit and ready but I think in the end we need to take a lot of positives”. I don’t talk about names.
“It’s all about the work rate of the player”.
Speaking to the club’s official website, Pochettino explained: “It’s the first game of the season and it’s always hard”.
“We lost a bit of control of the game in the last part of the second half, but overall I am very happy with the performance”. They tied the game with a Erik Lamela header midway through the half, and were on the front foot after that. The were very motivated.
On the extent of the injury sustained by Lloris, the Argentine boss added: “We will need to assess Hugo tomorrow and we’ll see what happens”.
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“We tried to correct the problems we had in the first half”.
