Tottenham head into their Monaco meeting on a high as they thrashed Stoke 4-0 in Staffordshire on Saturday, with Kane ending a nine-game goal drought by netting for the 50th time in the Premier League.
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“Our first meeting when they arrived from their holidays was an hour and a half and I told them all my feelings and my emotions”, Pochettino revealed.
The crowd is expected to set a new record for the largest attendance for a home Champions League game in Britain, yet fans of rival club Arsenal can testify to the struggles of a Wembley relocation as they won just two of their six fixtures in Europe when temporarily playing there in the late 1990s.
The thrashing of Stoke was Spurs’ first fixture in a seven-match run over 23 days as they return to the Champions League and EFL Cup while also facing Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Manchester City in the league before the worldwide break. “He will be happy”.
It was a performance that echoed those which brought Spurs into the title picture past year and their Argentinian boss thought it showed there was no hangover at White Hart Lane.
“This was a very tough and very good meeting because it is important now to be focused on this season”.
“We had to decide in or out in the window”.
“In the second half I’m very pleased, because the performance was nearly ideal”.
Stoke City manager Mark Hughes reacts after being sent to the stands.
The Welshman, who handed debuts to Wilfried Bony and Bruno Martins Indi, said: “I saw on TV them maybe saying I came out of my technical box, came back in and swore, which I didn’t”, Hughes said. So let’s put that to bed.
“Clearly I went out of the technical area and they spotted that”. I was a bit upset. “Sometimes you need the ball to fall for you, and it did today”.
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“Mr Moss, bless him, decided that warranted a sending off, which by the letter of the law it did”. The assistant referee had not flagged for a foul (on Jon Walters) and the referee then thought it was the right decision to book Marko when he was taking evasive action. “So I have to hold my hands up”.
