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LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s , right, heads the ball towards goal during the English soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Everton at in London, yesterday. — AP Kane double keeps Spurs in title hunt

Kane’s prolific form puts a little more pressure on goal, he quickly moved menacingly towards the penalty interval, Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen stormed runaway leaders Chelsea, who must win at West Ham area and, with Everton midfielder Gareth Barry fatally into the Everton area, but couldn’t beat Robles from an Tottenham 3 on Monday to restore their 10-point advantage. failing to close him down, the Spurs star was free to acute angle. If Everton were to halt Spurs’ serene “Harry is one of the best. I repeat that not only if he unleash a superb strike that flashed past Robles. progress, they needed much better service for the iso- scores, even if he does not score. He was fantastic. He lated Lukaku. Instead they shot themselves in the foot deserves all the praise,” Spurs coach Mauricio KNOCKOUT BLOW and gifted Kane his second goal in the 56th minute. Pochettino said. “We deserved to win. I feel very proud. Kane should have netted again moments later when Robles rolled the ball out to Morgan Schneiderlin Everton 2 We’re in a very good position here.” he collected Alli’s pass and cleverly cut inside Baines for and, with two Tottenham players lurking nearby, he Everton could have no complaints about their first a close-range effort that was straight at Robles. passed to Ashley Williams, but not quickly enough to defeat in their last 10 league games, a setback which smashed the rebound over the stop Alli stealing possession. LONDON: extended his hot streak with a dents their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League. crossbar and the Tottenham midfielder was off target A quick pass put Kane clean through and the blistering brace as Tottenham beat Everton 3-2 to close Tottenham had an early penalty appeal when Kyle with another opportunity, this one steered wide after England international kept his composure to slot a cool the gap on leaders Chelsea to seven points yesterday. Walker surged past into the area, but he broke clear. finish past Robles. Kane opened the scoring with a thunderous first-half the Everton defender recovered impressively, just get- After watching Merseyside boxer Tony Bellew’s win It took 80 minutes for Everton to give Lukaku a sight strike at White Hart Lane and netted again after the ting a foot on the ball with his last-ditch challenge. against David Haye in a heavyweight bout on Saturday of goal and he snapped up the chance, taking Ross break to take his goal tally to 24 in 28 games this sea- Although Spurs were monopolising possession, all evening, Everton boss took to social Barkley’s pass, accelerating away from the stumbling son. Everton forward , Kane’s closest the neat passing from Pochettino’s men hadn’t forced media to hail the Everton fan’s “warrior” spirit. Vertonghen and firing home. rival in the race to finish as Premier League top scorer, Everton goalkeeper Joel Robles into action. But there was little of that against-the-odds mentali- Tottenham were unfazed and Alli made a well-timed got one back before Dele Alli struck for Spurs in the Sensing that his team needed to be more direct, ty from Everton, who failed to lay a glove on Tottenham run to flick Harry Winks’s smart free-kick past Robles in closing moments. Kane took matters into his own hands to break the in a one-sided affair. Victor Wanyama nearly doubled the 90th minute. Valencia’s close-range finish in stop- There was still time for Enner Valencia to score deadlock in the 20th minute. Tottenham’s lead when his long-range effort cannoned page time came too late for Everton to undo Kane’s lat- Everton’s second, but Tottenham held on for a third vic- When Kane found himself on the ball 30 yards from off a post. Pressing for the knockout blow after the est heroics. — AFP tory in their last four league games. City ease past Sunderland to keep up title chase

are signs, after a fourth consecutive league win, that they are finding another gear at the perfect moment in Sunderland 0 the season. And having recovered from a run of six games without a goal, Aguero is back to his best form. “I am happy and was very pleased with display of Sergio. When a huge player is left out people ask, “Why? Man City 2 Why? Why?” Guardiola said. “In the future I want to involve both Gabriel Jesus and Sergio when they’re fit. “Sergio helped us a lot in our game and in the build SUNDERLAND: Sergio Aguero proved he is still vital to up. It was brilliant.” Manchester City’s cause as the Argentine paved the way Sunderland had worked tirelessly to restrict City in for a routine 2-0 victory at bottom club Sunderland yes- the first half but were undone by a move of real quality. terday. Having lost his place last month to young Yaya Toure fed the ball to Silva who in turn released Brazilian Gabriel Jesus there has been speculation Sterling and when he delivered a low cross Aguero about his future, but he was at his razor-sharp best as ghosted into space to flick a close-range effort past third-placed City closed the gap on Premier League Pickford for his 12th league goal of the season and 23rd leaders Chelsea to eight points. in all competitions. He opened the scoring three minutes before half- Sane finished off Sunderland with shot off the post time when he dinked in Raheem Sterling’s low cross- and City could have doubled their lead in the closing taking his tally to five goals in his last three games in all competitions. stages as Sunderland tired. Leroy Sane made it 2-0 just before the hour mark Apart from the ever-willing Defoe, Sunderland after a superb pass by sent him in on goal. offered little threat after that and remain bottom with Sunderland struck the post through only 19 points-six adrift of safety-after a third consecu- SUNDERLAND: Manchester City’s Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero (C) vies with Sunderland’s Irish defender when it was 0-0 but offered little apart from hard graft. tive defeat. “I hope our players understand the position John O’Shea (L) and Sunderland’s Swedish midfielder Sebastian Larsson (R) during the English Premier League With a home game against Stoke City to come on that we’re in, but we’re not panicking,” manager David football match between Sunderland and Manchester City at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, north-east Wednesday, City can move into second place and there Moyes said. — Reuters England yesterday. — AFP