Harry Kane moved within one of Jimmy Greaves’ Tottenham goalscoring record with a hallmark surface to make Spurs a safe FA Cup passage versus Portsmouth. Moments after Emerson Royal’s header hit the post, Kane exchanged passes with Ryan Sessegnon priorto curling into the far corner from 18 lawns. Kane has now scored 265 Spurs objectives, one behind the famous Greaves. Oliver Skipp fired over a excellent opportunity to include a 2nd objective however the League One visitors had no reply to Kane’s strike. The England striker has the opportunity to equivalent the record, or even break it if he ratings more than once, in the north London Premier League derby at house to Arsenal on 15 January. Relive Spurs v Portsmouth and follow all of Saturday’s FA Cup actionWith Dejan Kulusevski, Richarlison and Lucas Moura amongst a growing Spurs injury list, Antonio Conte was required to start Kane and Son Heung-min in a strong forward line regardlessof making 8 modifications general. Spurs had scored simply one first-half objective in their previous 12 videogames and neverever looked like including to that throughout a peaceful opening 45 minutes in north London, stoppingworking to register a single shot on target. Indeed, Portsmouth, cheered on by a sold-out allotment of more than 8,000 loud checkingout fans, produced the veryfirst half’s finest effort as Reeco Hackett-Fairchild’s acrobatic shot on the turn was pressed broad by Fraser Forster. However, Spurs stepped things up following the reboot and, simply after Royal headed Son’s deep cross on to the post, Kane produced the minute of magic that eventually showed definitive. Spurs lookingfor long-awaited cup cheerConte’s assistant Cristian Stellini this week stated the FA Cup was “an crucial target” for Tottenham and that their gamers had spoken of the requirement to end a prize dryspell dating back 15 years to Spurs’ 2008 League Cup win. They are out of the Carabao Cup this season and sit 5th in the Premier League, 11 points behind leaders Arsenal havingactually played a videogame more, leaving the FA Cup and Champions League as their practical hopes of endi
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