2018/19 UEFA Champions League Final: Liverpool FC vs Tottenham Hotspurs

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

CBarca wrote:

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Btw, Kane played 95 minutes today. Poch

Imagine how he would deal with a real star

Harry Kane is Tottenham.

1) why did anyone think he wouldn't play the entire game?

2) why is it even a question he should play? He's Spurs best player. He plays if he's fit. Imagine starting Moura over Kane in a CL final.

He should have had a pen too. Although he was doubled and mostly ineffectual

because it was clear as day that he was not fit to play

What exactly was clear about it?

I remember him going on a run, shaking a defender and then getting tackled in the box unfairly in the 85th min or so. Was that the clarity?

He had Matip and VVD draped on him every time he got the ball, and Pool were extremely narrow with their midfield pretty far back (in other words, PTB). How is it Kane's fault that no one could get him the ball? How was it his fault when the ball did come to him, it was in the air against players who quite frankly are just bigger than he is?

The problem wasn't Kane, as usual the problem was Spurs midfield, and the fact that Pool could sit back the entire game after they went ahead in the first 30 seconds.

Dele and Eriksen were both worse than Kane.

I'm not saying he was 100% fit, I think he was 80 or so and more than fit enough to play.

I understand people are biased because Spurs lost starting Kane and Moura had a hat trick against Ajax, but take a look at what you're saying. You'd rather have Lucas on than Harry Kane. No.

Lucas had I think 11 touches or so in the 30 minutes he was on. The problem was never Kane, and the play of the team was never dependent on Kane vs Lucas. People want easily identifiable mistakes but that's not how it works. The reality is Tottenham had a game plan that got thrown out of the window after 30 seconds