SPURS HARRY SHOWS Kane double leaves Guardiola
HARRY KANE gave Pep Guardiola a glimpse of what he’s missing – and blew the title race wide open at the same time. Kane scored twice, including an injury-time winner just seconds after Riyad Mahrez had dragged Manchester City level from the penalty spot.
The Tottenham skipper spent the summer trying to engineer his departure from North London to join Guardiola’s champions.
But Daniel Levy stood firm – and Kane capped an outstanding performance by scoring the goal that makes City’s advantage at the top of the table much more precarious.
City still lead Liverpool by six points, but Jurgen Klopp’s men play their game in hand against Leeds this week.
It has taken Kane time to get over the disappointment of not moving to City – and on this form, he is worth much more than the £100million they wanted to pay.
He was instrumental in Dejan Kulusevski’s opener and also had another goal disallowed in the second half BYVAR.
Antonio Conte’s side were ahead in the fourth minute.
Ruben Dias was lured into engaging Heung-min Son on the half-way line and was then undone by Kane’s brilliant first-time pass into the space behind.
Son tempted Ederson from his line and squared the ball for Kulusevski to guide a shot home through Joao Cancelo’s legs.
City were level in the 33rd minute. Raheem Sterling’s cross dipped in front of Hugo Lloris as he tried to scoop it up in front of
Kevin De Bruyne and when the ball slipped from his grasp, Ilkay Gundogan pounced to ram it home.
Kane struck again just before the hour when he caressed a glorious finish into the top corner.
He was denied another goal when Ederson raced from his line to smother his shot.
At the other end, Lloris made up for his earlier blunder by tipping behind Gundogan’s curling effort from 25 yards.
Kane found the net again when he turned sharply with Dias at his back and squeezed a shot between Ederson’s right hand and his post.
But Kulusevski had strayed a fraction offside before crossing the ball and VAR intervened.
City thought they had rescued a point in injury-time when Cristian Romero handled Bernardo Silva’s cross and referee Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot – and Mahrez kept his cool to fire home.
But there was another twist in the tale still to come.
Kulusevski’s clipped cross to the far post was delicious – and Kane was the hungriest player around.
He muscled his way beyond Kyle Walker to guide a textbook header into the corner.