Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho is hopeful Harry Kane will be fit in time to feature in the north London derby against Arsenal on Sunday.
Harry Kane continued his impressive form so far this season after scoring both of Tottenham’s goals in their 2-0 win over Dinamo Zagreb on Thursday night.
Both of his goals came were typical of good positioning. For his first, he swept in an Erik Lamela shot that had clattered the post and later pounced on a botched clearance attempt.
However, Kane experienced knee discomfort toward the end of proceedings, but manager Jose Mourinho later dismissed the problem as “not anything serious”.
With the north London derby against Arsenal up next on Sunday, it would come as a major blow for Spurs if they were without their talisman.
“[Kane] is doing everything,” Mourinho said after the game. “He is doing the striker job of scoring goals, the teamwork of creating space and linking play and the extra work not many strikers do in defence.
“He helps us a lot. He has an incredible number of clearances from crosses and corners. We couldn’t be happier.
“[The knee issue] I don’t believe is anything big. Sunday is a match everyone wants to play and little things will not stop him. I don’t have the feeling it is not anything serious.”
Speaking on the game itself, Mourinho felt Tottenham could have scored more goals against their opponents.
“To win 2-0 at home in the first leg is never a bad result theoretically, but we could, we should, and we deserved to score one more goal to be in a much better position” he added.
“For it to be a good result, we need to qualify.”
“I believe that the 1-0 was the kind of result they would have liked to take home. They did that in the second half, then with the 2-0 they wanted a goal, and they could in that corner (a rare chance in the second half) and that would have been a very strange result for what happened in the game.”
“But, sometimes, it’s better, a short result, because you keep the focus, you keep the concentration for the second leg, so we have to go there and we cannot defend the advantage, because that’s a small advantage to defend, we have to go there and try to win the game.”
With another fine display, Kane continues to impress this term with 26 goals for the campaign, having also added 16 assists across all competitions.
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