Tottenham have accomplished north London adversaries Arsenal a favour by beating the Gunners’ title rivals Manchester Metropolis within the Premier League.
Harry Kane’s first-half purpose noticed the Spurs striker grow to be the membership’s all-time report scorer with 267 objectives, overtaking the legendary Jimmy Greaves, and it turned out to be the winner on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Arsenal had misplaced at Everton on Saturday and for Metropolis, this was an opportunity to shut the hole provisionally to 2 factors, albeit with yet another sport performed.
However the champions had been properly under their finest and Tottenham held on to win with 10 males after Cristian Romero was despatched off late within the sport.
So Metropolis stay 5 factors behind Arsenal, having performed yet another match than the Gunners. The 2 groups nonetheless need to play one another twice within the Premier League this season.
For Spurs, it was a giant win with out supervisor Antonio Conte, who’s recovering from surgical procedure after having his gall bladder eliminated this week.
Tottenham are fifth, a degree behind Newcastle and three adrift of Manchester United, having performed yet another than each of these groups.
