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Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has blamed participation at the under-21 championships over the summer for Harry Kane’s current goal drought.

Kane also scored twice during September’s worldwide break to take his England tally to three goals in four games since making his debut previous year.

Trailing to goals from Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum, the reigning champions looked like suffering a fourth defeat in the space of seven Premier League matches when they were still 2-0 behind with 11 minutes left at St James’ Park.

West Ham needed only six minutes to take the lead, with Victor Moses firing in from long range as City conceded its first league goal of the campaign.

Combatants on both sides will need to focus their attention firmly on the pitch, but if they can go against recent history then Chelsea will aim to prove that their mini-crisis is over. Last season’s player of the year continues to misfire and his decision to blast the...

Tottenham host Manchester City this weekend in the Premier League.

Only once in the 18 Barclays Premier League meetings between these two sides have Arsenal failed to score against Leicester City. Leicester City have not beaten Arsenal since their debut season in 1994/95, drawing six times and losing on 11 occasions since. Two weeks ago,...

McClaren only took the Newcastle the job in the summer but with just two points from his first six Premier League games and an early exit in the League Cup to lower league opposition to their name, rumours are rife that McClaren is under pressure.

Yedlin will hope that his 90-minute showing was enough to convince manager Dick Advocaat to write his name in the lineup card again on Saturday against another Premier League power, Manchester United.

A flurry of new players, including German world cup victor Bastian Schweinsteiger, who brings an air of authority to the team, and the £38 million rated teen Anthony Martial, who has scored four goals in as many games since he made the controversial move to the Premier League,...

Advocaat took over the hard task of rescuing Sunderland’s season in March and performed a great escape.

Louis van Gaal has hailed teenage signing Anthony Martial – who has scored three goals for Manchester United in his first three games.

But Newcastle have had a disastrous start to the new season and sit second bottom in the Premier League without a win, while Sheffield Wednesday knocked the Magpies out of the League Cup in midweek.

The Hammers are third in the Premier League, three points behind leaders City, with 12 points from a possible 18.

Now, it is Ranieri’s Leicester City who go into Saturday’s clash with the Gunners with the only unbeaten record in the Premier League.