NO STOPPING CRACK KANE

Spurs bury Wembley jinx

HARRY KANE led from the front as Spurs went all out to lay their Wembley hoodoo to rest.

Mauricio Pochettino’s side seemed determined to end any suggestions the stadium had a curse over them following seven defeats in eight games there and just one win in 11.

Two goals from Kane plus one from Heung-Min Son in the first 60 minutes suggested their Wembley woes had not really got under their skins.

The only sour note for Spurs came in injury time when defender Jan Vertonghen’s trailing hand caught sub Mario Gotze and earned him a second yellow card and an early exit.

Pochettino and his team were not alone in having disappointing memories of the ground, with Dortmund losing the 2013 Champions League Final 2-1 to Bayern Munich on their only previous visit.

Cool

The Germans played a huge part in an entertaining and surprisingly open Group H clash.

But Spurs made an early breakthrough in the fourth minute after some cool work in defence by new signing Davinson Sanchez.

He found Son, who headed across to Christian Eriksen, who then picked out Kane.

The striker laid the ball out to the sprinting Son, who thrust down the left and dummied Sokratis Papastathopoulos superbly, allowing himself a sight of goal.

The Korean looked set to square for Kane but instead fired in a sizzling left-foot shot from an acute angle which deceived keeper Roman Burki and flashed into the net.

But Dortmund were level in the 10th minute. Former Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa was instrumental in the goal, flicking a pass from Andriy Yarmonlenko back to the striker.

The Ukrainian produced a left-foot curler which bent around Hugo Lloris and finished high in the net.

Just four minutes later the north Londoners were back in the lead with another stunner, this time from Kane. He saw off two challenges, leaving Papastathopoulos and Nuri Sahin on the deck, then evaded the challenge of Omer Toprak to rattle a left-foot shot in at the near post past Burki. As Dortmund pressed, a last-ditch challenge from Vertonghen denied hotshot PierreEmerick Aubameyang what looked a certain goal.

Soon after the restart both Kane and Son fired over the bar from good positions before Spurs had a lucky escape when Aubameyang converted a Sahin cross on the half-volley but was incorrectly ruled offside.

Three minutes later, it was 3-1. Son passed to Eriksen and he picked out Kane, whose low shot went in with the aid of a slight deflection off Lukasz Piszczek.

It made it three braces in his last four games – including one for England in Malta – for Kane, who has hit a purple patch after a barren August. THE FA have appealed to FIFA to rule on Dele Alli’s middle finger gesture before England’s game against Slovenia next month.

Lloris; Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen; Aurier, Dembele, Dier, Davies; Son, Eriksen, Kane. Subs: Vorm, Trippier, Sissoko, Llorente, Foyth, Winks, Walker-Peters.

Burki; Piszczek, Papastathopoulos, Toprak, Toljan; Dahoud, Sahin, Kagawa; Yarmolenko, Aubameyang, Pulisic. Subs: Weidenfeller, Zagadou, Subotic, Gotze, Isak, Philipp, Castro.

Gianluca Rocchi (Italy).