Kane injured after scoring two in Spurs’ 2-2 draw at Everton
LIVERPOOL: Harry Kane scored twice, including a second-half equalizer, before limping off with an ankle injury in Tottenham’s 2-2 draw at Everton in the Premier League as both teams stayed on the fringe of the race for Champions League qualification.
The England captain’s latest injury comes ahead of Tottenham playing Manchester City in the English League Cup final on April 25 -- the only shot at a trophy this season for Jose Mourinho’s team.
Kane rolled his right ankle under the weight of a tumbling Richarlison at a corner in second-half stoppage time at Goodison Park. Kane hobbled off after treatment, walking around the perimeter of the field unaided toward the locker room.
“I think it’s too early to say something,” Mourinho said immediately after the match on Friday. “For him to leave the pitch (at) 2-2 with a couple of minutes to go is obviously because he felt something. But let me be optimistic and believe he has time to recover.”
Mourinho added: “We all felt the same fears of something that stops him playing Wednesday (against Southampton in the league) and especially Sunday, but we will see.”
The striker has suffered with a number of ankle issues in recent years.
Earlier, Kane moved onto a league-high 21 goals for the season, two more than Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, with his clinically taken equalizer in the 68th minute after a defensive mix-up.
Kane had given Tottenham the lead in the 27th, only for a double from Gylfi Sigurdsson the first coming from the penalty spot following a foul by Sergio Reguilon on James Rodriguez to put Everton ahead.
Sigurdsson’s goals came in the 31st and 62nd minutes.Tottenham stayed in seventh place, and is now five points behind fourth-place West Ham having played one game more. Everton is a point further back in eighth.
It appeared that February’s nine-goal FA Cup thriller between the teams Everton won it 5-4 after extra time had used up all the fun for this fixture as it was a drab opening 25 minutes. Richarlison’s shot, which Hugo Lloris saved comfortably, was the only moment that passed as entertainment.
But the game burst into life with two goals in four minutes.
Spurs took the lead with their first foray into Everton’s box as Kane was clinical.
MONACO: Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas swatted aside unseeded Dan Evans 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday to reach the Monte Carlo Masters final for the first time, and stay on course for a first title this year.
The big-serving Greek faces the winner of a later semifinal between sixth-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev and unseeded Norwegian Casper Ruud.
Evans beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the third round. But he failed to threaten Tsitsipas in the same way and the match quickly slid away when he was serving at 3-2 down. Tsitsipas, a French Open semifinalist last year, broke his serve five times and remains on track for a sixth career title.