How deceptive appearances can be. On the face of things this was hardly an assignment Mauricio Pochettino would have asked for with a potentially season-defining match in Barcelona three days away, and to the naked eye his decision to name Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen on the bench seemed to play fast and loose with the evening’s outcome. Yet reality told a different tale: one of a surprisingly comfortable win that at once minimised Tottenham’s stress levels before visiting the Camp Nou and left them aglow with what feels like a renewed set of possibilities on the domestic front.
That they departed so buoyantly owed plenty to Son Heung-min, whose slow start to the season has seemed a distant memory over the past three weeks. A largely dreary first half was drawing to a close when, cutting inside on to his left foot, he cracked a marvellously clean 20-yard shot across Kasper Schmeichel and ended a Leicester resistance that had just begun to appear precarious. He crossed for Dele Alli to score Spurs’ second after half-time and ensure that, with 36 points from 16 games, they have made their best-ever start to a Premier League campaign.
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