Harry Kane is struggling but Spurs have other worries too | David Hytner

Star striker’s form is just one of a growing number of issues for Mauricio Pochettino to contend with after Spurs’ limp display against Liverpool

Harry Kane knows the drill. When things go wrong, the highest-profile players find themselves in the crosshairs. It is hard to overstate how badly things went wrong for Tottenham on Saturday in a chastening 2-1 Premier League defeat to Liverpool at Wembley.

Mauricio Pochettino clung to the positives, the Spurs manager noting his players had fought until the end and that they almost had an unlikely shot at salvation. After the substitute Érik Lamela had reduced the deficit on 93 minutes, another substitute, Son Heung-min, ought to have had a 95th-minute penalty after he was clipped by Sadio Mané. The referee, Michael Oliver, was unsighted.

Continue reading...