Kane back scoring for Tottenham thanks to pause in season

Harry Kane needed to watch helplessly whereas recovering from surgical procedure as Tottenham’s Champions League qualification hopes slipped away.

It regarded like Kane’s season was over — till the Premier League was suspended for 3 months.

Now, at a time when the striker anticipated to be taking part in for England on the European Championship, he’s again scoring for Tottenham.

On his 200th Premier League look, Kane scored his first objective of 2020 — after Tomas Soucek’s personal objective — to finish a 2-Zero victory over West Ham on Tuesday, transferring Tottenham inside some extent of the Champions League locations.

“When you have been out for over six months it’s just getting that feeling back on the pitch,” stated Kane, who moved to 137 league targets general. “You can train as much as you want but being out here is totally different.”

So very totally different, lately.

For one, there have been no followers within the stadium as a result of coronavirus pandemic. Group celebrations are additionally prohibited. So there was solely a solo slide throughout the sector, and Erik Lamela briefly going to leap on Kane’s again earlier than withdrawing.

It was Lamela who gained possession inside his personal half to launch the counterattack that ended with Son Heung-min releasing the ball and Kane racing by means of the porous protection earlier than hanging into the online within the 82nd minute.

Only Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has scored extra targets in his first 200 Premier League video games — 138 — than Kane.

“It goes so quick,” the 26-year-old Tottenham academy graduate stated. “I feel as fit as I’ve probably ever done before, it’s been a good chance to rest and recover and work on a few things I haven’t been able to over the years. I’m feeling in good shape.”

Son was denied an opener within the first half after VAR noticed he was offside. But the expertise didn’t deny Tottenham within the 64th minute when Soucek inadvertently turned the ball into his personal web from Giovani Lo Celso’s nook.

West Ham supervisor David Moyes thought the ball hit Tottenham defender Davinson Sanchez’s arm from the nook within the buildup however the video assistant referee clearly didn’t agree.

A second successive loss because the restart left West Ham solely out of the relegation zone on objective distinction.

But Tottenham is now solely some extent behind Manchester United in fifth place, which would be the remaining Champions League berth if second-place Manchester City’s two-season ban from Europe is confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport subsequent month.

LEICESTER EYES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Nine factors away from United, third-place Leicester remains to be properly positioned to return to the Champions League after 4 years regardless of back-to-back attracts because the return of the Premier League.

Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel saved a first-half penalty from Neal Maupay throughout a 0-Zero draw in opposition to Brighton, which moved six factors away from the relegation zone.