Tottenham striker Kane eager to silence critics after scoring against

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.

HARRY KANE (Tottenham) – A lack of effort was never Kane’s concern in the opening weeks of the season, but the goals would not come for the striker who bagged 31 last season. “Only seven games and a few people said “one-season wonder”. People can judge me at the end of the season. It’s frustrating, I kind of use that to get my juices flowing and try to prove these people wrong. “It was a harder chance than it looked, a half volley, so I just thought make contact and it seemed to creep into that top corner in slow motion”. That is how it is as a striker, you have to ride the waves. Sometimes it doesn’t go for you and fortunately this time it did.

“Hopefully he can keep building confidence and keep getting better and better”.

It’s great to score.

“When you’re scoring, like I was last season, it’s like a drug and once someone takes it away from you you want to get that back and you want to score again, and it was a good feeling. He’s a good football player, he wants to be involved”.

Roy Hodgson was at White Hart Lane for the third time in a week, with five Englishmen in Tottenham’s finishing eleven.

“I’m sure the England boss is delighted to see it in the Premier League, and maybe give him a headache for his selection”.

But Mbabu was one of the weekend’s true success stories, taming the Spaniard and then dealing with Eden Hazard when Chelsea mixed things up, as Newcastle were desperately unlucky not to claim their first win of the season. “It’s hard to explain”.

When Dier was used in a new midfield role in pre-season and early on in the Premier League campaign, Spurs fans were sceptical.

TOBY ALDERWEIRELD (Tottenham) – A Belgian defender who turned his back on a move to Southampton last summer as he opted to join Spurs instead and he has settled well at the heart of their defence.

I think it changed the game.

Many had speculated that defeat at home to Aston Villa could have cost Brendan Rodgers his job, so Sturridge’s two-goal contribution to a more-comfortable-than-it-sounds 3-2 win could prove a turning point.

“But it was not the reason to come back sloppy in the second half”.

“We’ve learned from a year ago”. We have to keep reminding ourselves to be positive.

“He probably knows he’s playing well and that’s what it’s like”.

“There are more big games coming”.

“We had the higher press, we were relentless in our running and that’s what we’ve been doing to teams this season”.