Alli and Kane on target as Spurs aim for Champions League

0 Dele Alli took advantage of a goalkeeping error to score.

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Alli 16; Kane 48

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Harry Kane was back on scoring form as Tottenham reasserted themselves in the race for the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Watford.

Kane scored his 27th league goal of the season three minutes after the break, following Dele Alli’s first-half opener, to strengthen his side’s top-four aspirations.

Fifth-placed Chelsea had whittled down a ten-point deficit to just two before kick-off but Spurs took that back to five with three games remaining and are in a good position to secure a third successive sea- son of playing elite European football.

For Watford, the end of the season cannot come quickly enough as they are now winless in seven and still not mathematically safe, sitting six points clear of the drop zone.

Spurs took a 16th-minute lead, though they had Watford goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis to thank. The Greece international inexplicably dropped a routine cross from Kieran Trippier, allowing Christian Eriksen to tee up Alli.

After Hugo Lloris in the Spurs goal was forced into a couple of good saves, half-time proved the tonic Tottenham needed and they went further ahead just three minutes after the restart when Kane turned home Trippier’s centre from the other side.

The goal took him to within four of Golden Boot frontrunner Mohamed Salah.