‘Pace to burn’… Jermaine Jenas thinks £15.5m Spurs player has just played his best game under Ange Postecoglou

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Pundit Jermaine Jenas has praised Timo Werner after the Tottenham Hotspur forward’s goal against Crystal Palace.

Tottenham have a real habit for making life hard for themselves this season.

Spurs keep conceding the first goal and did so again on Saturday as Crystal Palace ace Eberechi Eze opened the scoring.

Ange Postecoglou’s men had to battle back and found a leveller through Timo Werner, tapping home Brennan Johnson’s ball in.

Cristian Romero added number two before Son Heung-min rounded off the scoring with the third, handing Tottenham another win.

Jermaine Jenas on Timo Werner

This was Werner’s first goal in a Tottenham shirt and he would have been relieved in more ways than one.

Getting off the mark in his second stint as a Premier League player – especially having not lived up to the hype at Chelsea – will have been massive for Werner.

It’s also worth factoring in that Werner squandering an incredible chance to score in the first half.

Some will have wondered if Werner was ever going to score for Tottenham but the goal did arrive after the break.

The hope is that Werner will now kick on and really thrive for Tottenham in the coming weeks as Spurs weigh up a permanent move.

HITC Football understands that Tottenham can turn Werner’s loan move from RB Leipzig into a permanent move for around £15.5million.

Werner is trying to prove himself to Tottenham and former Spurs midfielder Jermaine Jenas has told Match of the Day that this was his best performance for the club so far.

Jenas hailed Werner’s attitude and his desire to chase lost causes and get in behind defences, but the question mark is over his finishing ability and end product.

Jenas added that Werner could have gone in on himself after that first-half miss but he kept going and may have just kickstarted his Tottenham career.

“He’s had a reasonable start in Spurs shirt,” said Jenas. “I thought that today was probably his best game, it really was. He’s got a great attitude and since he’s arrived, he’s shown that. He’s a willing runner, he’s got pace to burn and the one question mark that is always surrounding him, it’s the end product – can he provide a finish, can he score goals? He’s just not quite feeling comfortable, or doesn’t look comfortable.”

“That could have knocked his confidence, he could have thought ‘here we go again’, but he didn’t. It could have been one of those games that really starts things for him in a Spurs shirt,” he added.

Werner must continue to add goals and assists before the end of the season and, if he can do that, Spurs may well pull the trigger on signing Werner full-time.