Tottenham

Monday was the full Spurs experience: unable to keep the ball, creating few chances and giving Fulham space to attack, yet Tottenham won anyway.

We had a good meeting with the manager to talk about what we are good at, we want to fight -- he is a passionate manager and want to keep working had for him." ET](https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/9ca066ba-f647-47f3-ae67-5895f01ee38e)). We have to try to stay in the race for the Champions League and try to go to the next round in the FA Cup. Being a part of the team, it is not just the players, but the manager and staff and being there for each other. We want to win every game for him and we want to repay him with victories. The second half was better -- as they played higher up the field and restricted Fulham to a series of half-chances at best. There's no doubting his class, but he was poor in the first half here and was guilty of giving the ball away far too many times. [Pedro Porro](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/268533/Pedro-Porro). Side-on to goal, he shifted the ball onto his right foot, had a few inches to aim for in the corner and found it, leaving goalkeeper The goal saw him draw level with the late, great Greaves on 266 goals for Spurs -- it was also his 199th in the Premier League. And that's all that [Harry Kane](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/142200/Harry-Kane) needed. Fulham could have snatched a late equaliser, but goalkeeper [Hugo Lloris](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/43372/Hugo-Lloris) did brilliantly to tip Manor Solomon's effort around the post.

Harry Kane equalled Jimmy Greaves' club record of 266 goals as Tottenham squeaked past Fulham 1-0 in the Premier League.

But with Conte’s side, it is the case with alarming regularity, and there is no sense whatsoever of a serious side in development. It goes short, Kulusevski then crosses long towards the back stick, and when Davies nods back across, Kane thinks he's going to score! 57’ - SPURS' FIRST ATTACK OF THE HALF: And Kulusevski wins a corner off Robinson. He finds De Cordova-Reid again, who has a look, shoots, and drills a low shot that Lloris pushes away. Nevertheless, they’ll be delighted with their first half of the season, while Spurs are still posing more questions than they’re answering; they just so happen to have Kane, who is good. Kane now has 266 goals for the club, joining Jimmy Greaves as its all-time leading scorer.

This was his 266th goal for Spurs, drawing him level with the record Jimmy Greaves set between 1961 and 1970. This one was as good as any of the first 265, a ...

(If Kane had not existed, they would have had Emmanuel Adebayor or Roberto Soldado up front in 2014-15, and the whole dynamic would have been different.) But if you are reading this article, you are surely one of the unlucky ones, and you will have recognised it perfectly. It is important to have this record and I think it would be more important if you can lift a trophy.” After years of drift, Levy owes it to Kane to create something solid while Kane is still at his peak. The second half was a different place, as Fulham ran out of steam and Spurs shut down the game. If you have been lucky enough to not watch Tottenham start a game all season it would have been genuinely shocking how passive and sloppy they were, unable to get on the ball or get up the pitch. As bad as Spurs look right now, and as unable to produce a full 90-minute performance, a positive spring could still be just about within reach. It is worth pausing and reflecting for a moment what it means in modern football to have scored that many goals for one team. This one was as good as any of the first 265, a little masterpiece of awareness, balance and technical execution. Greaves and Kane were only born a few miles apart – either side of Wanstead Flats, where north-east London meets Essex – but Greaves was born in 1940 and Kane in 1993. He was probably the greatest striker this country has ever produced but he was playing in an unrecognisably different era. (“Only a world-class striker can score this type of goal,” as Antonio Conte put it afterwards.)

Gary Neville insists it's not too late for Tottenham to keep Antonio Conte after dismissing certain claims about the Italian as a "myth".

Neville is also adamant that Tottenham are the best place for Conte to be at right now. “I think both of them should go and shake hands tomorrow and sign a two-three year deal,” he said. And while Tottenham are fifth in the Premier League and through to the last 16 of the Champions League, the club appear – on the surface at least – to be exactly where they would hope to be. “They’re playing AC Milan in a few weeks time, they’re in the FA Cup, I’d say they’re on track. “I think Tottenham are very lucky to have Antonio Conte,” he said. However, cracks have appeared to show behind the scenes in recent weeks.

Make no mistake, Harry Kane is the reason Spurs are somehow still in contention in the Champions League race and not scrapping with Everton at the bottom.

He plays a bit like a midfielder-come-defender in that he's pretty composed on the ball and reads the game well. And at Everton he kept them up – the job he was brought in to do. I’m meant to be at work, so I need to call my boss and ask him if I can get the night off. He spent most of last season in that role, and it's only this year under Luca Gotti that he's been playing regularly at the back, on the left of a back three (he's a lefty). But come this summer, he has an enormous decision to make if Manchester United finish in the top four, as is looking likely, Tottenham finish outside the top four, which is looking likely, and the former calls up the latter for his services, which is also looking likely. He took Derby to the play-off final. He navigated a transfer ban with Chelsea, finished in the top four and then was axed in the weird Covid times of no crowds. 9.5 – a hybrid between out-and-out striker and attacking midfielder – to give his side the best chance to do something with the ball. With Alan Shearer’s 260 goals record in his sights, he can’t leave the Premier League now. This was no better illustrated than by Ivan Perisic in the first half at Craven Cottage when he had acres of space to gallop into but, with the opposition defence set, he froze. And while that last point still haunts us, as does the penalty that is yet to land in Qatar, it is maddening how mild the fanfare around Harry Kane is. Instead, he is carrying a team that has been allergic to attacking since the dreadful dismissal of Mauricio Pochettino three and a bit years ago.

Monday nights Premier League win over Fulham saw Spurs move to within three points of the top four but question marks still remain over the future of ...

"We want to win every game for him. "I think Tottenham are very lucky to have Antonio Conte," the Sky Sports pundit said. Conte's got Tottenham into the Champions League, he's also been back and given £200m to get the players he wants, I'm not sure why these dark clouds are appearing over Spurs. I said that today has to be a starting point for us. They also remain in the Champions League and FA Cup. It's a myth."