BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) -Tottenham Hotspur stored themselves within the hunt for a top-four end within the Premier League with targets by Cristian Romero and Harry Kane bagging a 2-0 win at out-of-form Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday.
A dismal first half on a wet night time on the south coast was virtually devoid of goalmouth motion till central defender Romero deflected in Dejan Kulusevski’s shot within the thirty seventh minute to open his account for the membership.
Tottenham have been far brighter than their hosts within the second half and doubled the lead with a textbook counter-attack rounded off by Kane’s unerring end within the 57th minute.
It was Kane’s ninety fifth objective in 139 look away from house within the Premier League, taking him previous Wayne Rooney with whom he had beforehand shared the file.
Brighton failed to actually bother Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris as they slumped to a sixth successive league defeat though they’re nicely away from relegation bother.
Victory lifted Antonio Conte’s Tottenham above Wolverhampton Wanderers into seventh place with 48 factors, degree with West Ham United who they’ve one sport in hand on.
Tottenham, who host West Ham on Sunday, are three factors behind fourth-placed Arsenal who have been in motion towards title-chasing Liverpool in a later kickoff on Wednesday.
“We bought forward within the sport after which I believe we managed it. Overall it was a very good night time away from house,” Kane mentioned.
“Sometimes you want a little bit of luck to go your manner to break the impasse and that is what occurred and from there we managed it. We performed good soccer we simply have to maintain successful video games.”
There was definitely a big slice of luck about Tottenham’s opening objective. A fairly languid transfer ended up with Kulusevski having a shot at objective and the ball glanced the leg of Romero to wrong-foot Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez.
Tottenham’s second was medical.
Brighton have been truly having fun with their finest spell of the sport however when a transfer broke down, Rodrigo Bentancur’s incisive move launched Kane who had timed his run to perfection.
The England captain drilled a shot low inside Sanchez’s close to publish earlier than the keeper had time to set himself.
Tottenham may have prolonged their lead late on with Kane having a penalty enchantment turned down and organising Sergio Reguilon whose shot was saved.
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
