You're making the rather simple mistake of measuring Kane's game on goals scored alone. He was so much more than that. We may have compensated for his goals, but we missed (and still miss) his creativity, his hold-up play and, which is never discussed, the fear he struck into opposition defences that meant teams would never dare to push too many men forward in case they left him in space. By contrast Richarlison and Solanke are about as scary as a bag of lavender scented cotton wool.
I don't really care about the numbers. League position and quality of performance are what I care about. No one was dancing in the streets of Haringey over the fact that we had the best GD in the bottom half of the table last season.
Very frustrating game last night. It’s probably the one game that’s wound me up more than any other over at least the last year or so. The performance was simply appalling. Seeing as it was a home game, a bottom placed side devoid of confidence should have been put to the sword in the first half, but apparently we forgot how to play football. We should never have got to a position where they had the belief they’d win that. A very lucky point in the end, but we deserved nothing.
This was the first game I watched since PSG (1. how fickle my vowing is 2. blame me for anti-rcl-ing ) . It just so happened to be the first time that Frank Spurs were likely to face PL Portu-ball. And they failed. The question Frank is now being asked is whether if he assumes all opponents bar the usual suspects attempt to set up as Wolves and Bournemouth did, can he select the formations + starting XIs to prevail. If not, then things will become like last season very quickly indeed.
