It was the ideal warm-up for Tottenham’s Champions League last-16 second leg against Juventus on Wednesday, with the tie delicately poised at 2-2.
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The hosts enjoyed 75% of possession and completely controlled the proceedings, the only criticism of Spurs would be that they did not win the game by four or five. It marks a remarkable turnaround for them since the start of the season and Pochettino was delighted with the application of the players to improve their form at their temporary home.
Despite going into the second leg with the score level at 2-2, due to the away goals rule, it’s Tottenham who will have an advantage in the tie.
Son has felt those home comforts more than most as 13 of his 15 goals this season have come at Wembley.
“It was a hard game, we knew it was going to be beforehand and we felt it during the game”, Liverpool manager Klopp told BT Sport.”I thought the boys were brilliant and they did what they needed to do. I think it is a fantastic run at home”, said Pochettino.
Kane is now regarded as one of the very best centre-forwards in the world, alongside the likes of Barcelona’s Luis Suarez and Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski. We are not getting carried away.
We made a big step in that aspect by what we did in the group stage, and now we have got to try and do it against the big teams consistently.
Son, who scored twice in Sunday’s win, said: “We are hungry”. ‘We need to play our game, be confident and play forward like we play at Wembley.
Harry Kane is keen for Tottenham fans to make Wembley a hostile and hard place for Juventus. We’ve got to try and win the game.
The two teams played out a thrilling 2-2 draw in the first game and all the action from the return fixture is live on BT Sport 2 and BT Sport 4K UHD.
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But as impressive as those performances were, it was during Harry Kane’s now traditional August drought that he really showed his worth for Tottenham, rising to the challenge and scoring crucial goals for a team that needed them. They have also scored exactly three goals in each of those games. One of the better ball-playing midfielders in the Premier League’s bottom half and crucial to the way Wagner prefers to set his team up, the Australian global has been absent since the 4-1 win over Bournemouth last month through injury. “Going through would give us a lot more confidence”.
