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Muzzle: Harry Kane thrives at Tottenham in a double role and breaks cooking records
Without Eriksen and Ali, a playmaker took over at Tottenham, and the big star came in there with 9 assists in 9 league games, without giving up the craft of conquest.
The collaboration with Son Telepati, Mourinho is happy, and now Frank Lampard needs to stop them in a hot top derby against Chelsea
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Michael Yochin
Friday, November 27, 2020, 3:00 p.m.
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One of the biggest pleasures of the English fans at Euro 2016 was to mock the decision of coach Roy Hodgson to let Harry Kane actually perform the horn balls.
Football fans have an obscene habit of laughing at professionals, especially when they fail - and England's end result in the championship in question was a resounding fiasco and relegation in the quarter-finals by Iceland.
So it was easy to label Hodgson a senile beard and ridicule him, instead of trying to figure out the logic behind his choices.
And maybe it's not ideal to send the central striker with the best head game to the corner point, and in retrospect it did not work as expected, but the veteran boss knew one thing, which has long disappeared from the eyes of the armchair commentators.
Kane is an excellent moralist.
Sharp and smooth.
Today, with Tottenham's certified scorer leading by a considerable margin in the Premier League's cooks' rankings, with nine assists in nine games, this feature is suddenly gaining immense exposure.
This is no joke - Kevin de Bruyne, Bruno Fernandez and Hamas Rodriguez have the same number of cooks in total!
In a single game against Southampton, Kane arranged four tackles for Young Min Son alone, which is more than what the Belgian genius of Manchester City or the Portuguese architect of Manchester United have done throughout the season.
All this has not hurt Kane's own goal crop - he has also had seven conquests, and is thus directly on 16 of Tottenham's 21 conquests so far.
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At its peak, in every possible sense.
Kane (Photo: Reuters)
The average assists increased 10 times
However, an even more astonishing statistic is obtained when comparing his assists to his own past data.
In the previous 206 league games, Kane had 20 touchdowns, meaning an average of about 0.1 per game.
This season he has improved it 10 times. The business is expected to balance, of course, in the long run, but the change is very noticeable, as is his role on the pitch.
He is no longer a classic No. 9.
On the other hand, he is still playing at the edge, and has not moved to the playmaker position.
Somehow, Kane manages to combine the two.
It fills both slots at once, and maintaining it becomes a particularly difficult task.
He is in every corner of the field, and also finds time to assist in defense when needed.
On the other hand, if you ask him, it's not really new.
"I love to deliver, and I played as an offensive midfielder in the youth teams," Kane recently testified.
Indeed, anyone who has looked at his performance in previous seasons, in which he has clearly been defined as a central striker, has had no trouble seeing how multifaceted a player he is.
Kane has always been more mobile compared to other key pioneers.
The percentage of goals he scored in kicks off the field is much higher compared to any other number 9.
More than once he even enjoys participating in the construction of the attacks.
For example, this was reflected in one of Mauricio Pochettino's last games as coach, in a 5: 5 win over Red Star Belgrade in October 2019. Kane then conceded twice, but was involved in creating the other three goals - even if he did not provide the final pass.
"Kane was Tottenham's main playmaker," ESPN wrote at the time.
Why?
Because Christian Eriksen then got a rest on the bench.
Utilization of space instead of holding a ball
And here, in fact, lies the main reason behind the change in consciousness this season.
The departure of the creative Danish midfielder to Inter last January left a significant gap in the squad because he had no real replacement.
The significant gradual decline in Della Ali's fitness and abilities also affected.
In recent months, while Eriksen is frustrated and looking for an escape route from San Siro, and Ali is not relevant at all in north London, Kane has taken command.
He enters the orphaned position without abandoning the original position, and Jose Mourinho's tactical change helps him greatly.
In the Pochettino era, the style of the roosters was based on holding and moving a ball.
Tottenham tried to control what was happening and produce valley situations in an orderly dedication game.
Eriksen and Ali were key players in the lineup, and Kane concentrated on what he knows to do best of all.
Even when he went off the field, or even wandered to the wings, his main task was to put the ball in the net.
Mourinho's approach, especially in the post - Corona holiday period, is reversed.
The current Tottenham advocates a very quick transition from defense to attack and utilization of available space in the opposing home side.
If the opposing team uses the high pressure method, Mourinho is even happier.
The battle against Southampton in late September was the ultimate example of this.
The spaces opened up for the fast sun were extremely tempting, and were phenomenally utilized.
Thus was born the first case in the history of the English league in which one player cooked a quartet for another player.
Tottenham do not miss, neither does Kane.
Eriksen at Inter (Photo: GettyImages)
Lampard and Drogba's record will be broken
It did not stop there, of course.
Kane cooked for Lesson both in the 1: 6 over Manchester United and also in the insane 3: 3 against West Ham that should have ended in a crushing victory for the Roosters.
When he also arranged for the Korean to score the only goal in the tough battle at Barangli a month ago, Sun smiled at the moralist as if he did not believe.
"You again?", He wondered.
The coordination between them is already becoming my telepathy.
They have cooked up nine goals for each other this season - far more than in any of the previous full seasons.
In total, during their careers at Tottenham, they have 29 goals in common.
They have passed Thierry Henry and Robert Pierce, and only one pair in Premier League history are ahead of them.
Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard have cooked for each other 36 times at Chelsea.
At the current rate, the record may already be broken in the coming weeks.
The quality of the assists is also of great importance.
Central strikers usually cook with bumps inside the extension, or shifts when playing with their backs to the goal.
These abilities are also essential, of course, but Kane's cooking is radically different.
It is capable of sending precisely long balls of a millimeter, and they are very convenient for the extremists who break through to get them.
Not only is Son supposed to benefit from this, but so is Stephen Brahwin, not to mention Gareth Bale who fits like a glove next to Mourinho's form of play this season.
Last Saturday, Giovanni Lou Celso also enjoyed Kane's fantastic cooking.
The striker received the ball in Tottenham's half of the pitch, galloped forward and sent a measured pass between three Manchester City players to secure a costly victory over Pep Guardiola's side.
Even De Bruyne can look at this action with admiration.
A collaboration that will still break records.
Kane and Son (Photo: Reuters)
Mourinho does not want all the credit
"When Mourinho came to the team, he said the wingers need to get into the spaces I clear when I step back. It's something I've been doing for a long time as well, but now we're seeing the output," Kane says.
"This is an insight that has been brewing since Pochettino's era, so I do not want to take full credit for it. It can be shared. Kane and Son have been playing together for a long time, and now they are collaborating in a slightly different way, because Harry does not always play as a central striker. Mourinho claims.
On paper, it's still 1-3-2-4 familiar, but in practice Tottenham tend to act on something reminiscent of 0-4-2-4.
Giving up on natural strikers makes it easier to create chaos, and the defenses have a hard time shutting down the players who infiltrate between the lines.
Kane himself can also join the attack from behind, and reach the field at the ideal time when not guarded.
Lampard at the time made these stealths his trademark, and made them a career.
There was no player who did it better than him.
Now, as Chelsea coach, he has to face the challenging lineup of roosters on Sunday in the hot top derby.
Mourinho comes into battle with the mythological ex with a certain psychological advantage.
Tottenham are ranked at the top after four consecutive league victories, including against their biggest opponent of all, Pep Guardiola.
He also defeated, in a very lackluster squad, Chelsea in the League Cup two months ago, on penalties.
Kane was then included only in the 70th minute, and was on the field when Eric Lamela scored the equalizer.
This time he will be there from the first minute, and Lampard's most important task will be to find a way to stop the playmaker-striker who is in top form, and has not allowed him and Lesson to approach his and Drogba's record.
In previous years, the task of guarding Kane had been imposed on the brakes, but this time the situation was different.
This burden will have to be borne by Angulo Canta.
And it will be fascinating.
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