Kane joins 150 club as Spurs, Leicester play leapfrog
LONDON: Harry Kane joined the Premier League’s 150-club as Tottenham briefly grabbed top spot before being leapfrogged by Jamie Vardy’s Leicester on a seesaw Sunday.
Kane headed in a late winner (88th minute) in a 1-0 victory against struggling West Brom to lift Jose Mourinho’s side above Southampton after their fourth win in five league games.
But Vardy then took his tally to eight Premier League goals for the season, scoring from the penalty spot against Wolves as Leicester claimed top spot with a 1-0 win.
Only Alan Shearer and Sergio Aguero have scored 150 Premier League goals in fewer appearances than Kane, who reached the landmark in his 218th match.
Mourinho was effusive in his praise for his star striker, who also has 10 assists in all competitions this season.
“When you go to stats in relation to the strikers, I always say that the stats should be how many goals has a striker scored and what he did for his team in the matches where he didn’t score,” he said.
“And many of the strikers that history will show an incredible number of goals that they score, plus zero.
“Kane, you have to say has this many goals, this many assists, this number of balls recovered, this number of duels won, this number of balls that he saved his team in a defensive set-piece. This is Harry Kane.
“It’s goals plus this and this and this and that.”
Spurs are now unbeaten in their past seven league games but were below their best for long periods against a West Brom team still without a league win this term.
Vardy was hero as Leicester climbed to the top of the table.
Leicester opened the scoring in the 15th minute when Vardy scored from the spot — following a VAR check — after Max Kilman
handled Dennis Praet’s cross in the area.
Brendan Rodgers’ team held on to win all three points, taking them to 18 points after eight games.