SPURS’ KANE SHOWS MAN CITY WHAT IT MISSES

No wonder Pep Guardiola once branded Tottenham the Harry Kane team. No wonder Manchester City pursued four rebuffed bids to sign him.

There he was — still in a Tottenham jersey — in the fifth minute of stoppage time on Saturday, putting the ball in the City net for a second time.

Tottenham 3, Manchester City 2

How galling for Guardiola. The striker he was so determined to sign engineered a twist to the title race by inflicting a 3-2 loss on the Premier League leaders that gives more than just a glimmer of hope to chaser Liverpool.

“Let’s just forget,” the City manager said, determined not to revisit the ill-fated pursuit of Kane moments after the defeat. “The quality with the ball the whole of the U.K. knows it.”

The country — and far beyond — didn’t only see it with the winning header after Riyad Mahrez’s penalty had looked to have rescued a point for City earlier in added time after Cristian Romero’s handball.

Kane saved his most complete display of an underwhelming season for the visit to the Etihad Stadium .

There had already been a perfectly weighted pass from Kane that released Son Heung-min to square for Dejan Kulusevski to score the opener, four minutes into the Swede’s first start since arriving on loan from Juventus last month.

Then the England captain restored Tottenham’s lead after Ilkay Gundogan’s equalizer in a move he started with a high cross. Son combined with Ryan Sessegnon before the ball was returned to Kane, who arrived unmarked by the 6-yard box to lift a shot into the net.

“He is an unbelievable player and an unbelievable guy,” Son said of Kane. “Working alongside him is a big honor.”

There was frustration when Kane put the ball in the net again only for the goal to be scrubbed out by a correct VAR offside decision in the 74th minute.

But in a tenacious performance, with effective pressing beyond his scoring contributions, Kane was pushing to the end. So when Kulusevski whipped a cross into the penalty area with the full-time whistle approaching, Kane got himself into space to nod into the net.

“It was a crazy game,” Kane said. “We worked so hard for so long and to concede a penalty in the last minute was heartbreaking. But credit to the boys, we found a chance at the end and I managed to put it away.”