The Tottenham Hotspur had his red card at Goodison Park overturned on Tuesday.
Harry Kane has revealed that he told Tottenham Hotspur team-mate Son Heung-min that he was blameless for the horror injury that Everton’s Andre Gomes suffered on Sunday.
Son looked visibly distraught by the sight of Gomes’s ankle at Goodison Park this past weekend.
The Tottenham attacker and team-mate Serge Aurier appeared to tackle the Everton midfielder at the same time, with referee Martin Atkinson issuing the South Korean star a red card.
Spurs appealed the dismissal and the decision was overturned by the Football Association on Tuesday.
And Kane, who was ill for the trip to Merseyside, told Son a day later in training that it wasn’t his fault.
He said to Football London: “With Sonny, I saw him when I went into training on Monday morning, I gave him a little hug and I told him that it wasn’t his fault. Obviously I know Sonny very well, I know what type of guy he is and I know that that sort of event would have hurt him a lot.”
The bad news for Gomes is that he’ll miss for the rest of this season for Everton, though the good news is that he is expected to make a full recovery.
Son was shook up following the incident but it’s important that he’s focused on Tottenham’s Champions League clash away to Crvena Zvezda tonight. Defeat would seriously jeopardise the North Londoners’ chances of reaching the last 16 phase of the competition.
With three Group B games to go, Mauricio Pochettino’s side are second on four points, five behind Bayern Munich – where they visit in the final gameweek – and one clear of Red Star.
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