Kane warns Chelsea over title race and winning streak

‘We have to try to win every game and hope Chelsea and the teams above us drop points.

The miss was just Kane’s second unsuccessful penalty in 12 attempts in the Premier League – and he scored from the rebound after the first.

The defeat leaves Claude Puel’s men eighth in the Premier League table and they will now look to end the year on a high with a victory over West Brom on New Year’s Eve.

Tottenham now sit in fifth place and are a point outside the Champions League places. Alex Ferguson’s final Manchester United team and Man City.

Chelsea come to White Hart Lane next Wednesday and, providing they win at Watford on Sunday, Spurs will go into that game with more confidence and belief than they have had all season.

For this week’s fixtures specifically across the Premier League and the Football League, the following players find themselves ruled out of their manager’s thoughts but a few lucky ones may find their suspension expires before their clubs’ next fixture depending on the scheduling. Eric Dier covered alongside Jan Vertonghen but the positional switch exposed Spurs within 90 seconds.

“People had been talking, saying that I hadn’t scored for one or two games but that’s the position I am in”.

Goals from Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and Dele Alli’s brace completed the turnaround for the visitors, despite Kane also missing a penalty with the score at 2-1.

Tottenham would have finished 2013 with considerably more points had Gareth Bale not left for Real Madrid on September 1st in a world-record £85 million deal. The days of Spurs’ selling their best players are over, though.

Harry Kane, everybody! The next Morten Andersen in the making. Instead, they all signed new long-term deals. It has; in fact, five in the last six matches.

Spurs have shown that they can match-up against any team this season. Generally, though, they’ve been efficient at beating the teams at the bottom.

After completing fourth official duties at Leicester on Boxing Day, Mike Dean will head to the south coast to take charge here.

Notably, two of three sending offs have come in Tottenham games. Of course that doesn’t excuse how Spurs played poorly to begin the match.