Tottenham Hotspur lost to Chelsea on Sunday afternoon, with Harry Kane enduring another difficult game in the Spurs attack.
Thiago Silva, N’Golo Kante and Antonio Rudiger struck to give Chelsea a 3-0 win at Tottenham in a superb second-half showing.
Tottenham just couldn’t lay a glove on Chelsea, and have now scored just three goals in five Premier League games this season.
Kane part of Tottenham’s problem
Tottenham have a top striker in Harry Kane, but the England international has yet to score in the Premier League this season.
Kane barely figured as a striker against Chelsea.
For much of the game, Kane featured in from the left flank, allowing Son Heung-min to play centrally.
It didn’t really work, but when Tottenham were chasing goals, Kane ended up so deep that he was basically a holding midfielder.
With one shot on target in the last 180 minutes of Premier League action, Kane isn’t really helping Tottenham.
Neville comments on Nuno decision
Gary Neville wasn’t impressed with the idea of playing Kane out wide.
Speaking on his own podcast, Neville worried Nuno’s decision to play Kane may ‘not go down that well’ with the striker.
When Tottenham went 2-0 down, Neville thought Kane simply wouldn’t stick around on the left much longer – no matter Tottenham’s approach.
Neville added that Nuno realised the ‘danger’ of leaving a disgruntled Kane on the left much longer, even if he went with it in the first place.
“Being on the left, I did feel in the first half… if this doesn’t work, it might not go down that well,” said Neville. “I think as soon as Chelsea went 2-0 up, I was watching and thinking ‘he’s not going to hang out on that left much longer’, and Nuno did switch him straight away, he did see the danger of having him out on the left,” he added.
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