Ian Wright jokes why he was gutted Tottenham’s Harry Kane missed golden chance against Real Madrid

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Harry Kane missed a fantastic second-half chance during Tottenham Hotspur’s Champions League clash with Real Madrid.

Keylor Navas of Real Madrid saves from Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur

Arsenal legend Ian Wright has joked on The Debate on Sky Sports (broadcast on 17th October 2017 from 22:00) that he was gutted that Harry Kane missed his brilliant second-half chance during Tottenham’s Champions League clash with Real Madrid because it may have set up a move to the Bernabeu for the striker had he scored.

Spurs continued their unbeaten start to their European campaign as they drew 1-1 against Zinedine Zidane’s men, but there is no question that both sides had their opportunities to potentially win the game.

Perhaps the best chance that Tottenham created came about 20 minutes from the end when Kane was played in by strike partner Fernando Llorente. The 24-year-old attempted to find the corner, but his shot led to Keylor Navas producing an incredible save to tip the ball around the post.

And Wright has suggested that the miss will probably haunt Kane for a long time, before joking that, as an Arsenal fan, he would have loved to have seen the reported Real Madrid target (via Daily Mail) find the back of the net and make himself even more appealing to the Spanish giants.

“He did brilliantly. Llorente’s pass into him was fantastic and he did well, opened himself out, everything was perfect,” he told The Debate on Sky Sports (broadcast on 17th October 2017 from 22:00).

“He’ll be thinking about that because he knows that’s a chance that he gobbles up. It’s a chance that he will never forget because it was in the Bernabeu, they’re all talking about him, they’re all looking at him, and he missed that chance. That’s why I was gutted for him because I wanted Real Madrid to say, ‘yeah, we’ll take him off Tottenham’.”

In fairness to Kane, Navas deserves a huge amount of praise for the save as the striker arguably did not give too big a clue before he took the shot where he was going to try and put the ball.

And Mauricio Pochettino will be hoping that the moment does not knock his confidence at all as it was a fantastic night for Spurs where they arguably provided the biggest hint yet that they are ready to become one of Europe’s heavyweights.