Spurs 1-0 Manchester City

The report...

History was made at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday afternoon, as Harry Kane became the Club’s all-time record goalscorer with the only goal of the game as we beat Manchester City in an entertaining encounter.

A record that had stood for 53 years, since Jimmy Greaves scored his 266th and final Spurs goal in January, 1970, was finally broken by Kane - one of our own and now the greatest goalscorer in our long, illustrious history.

And for Kane’s 267th goal to be the winner against the reigning champions on home soil just added to the wonderful moment, as we picked up three huge Premier League points to keep in touch with the race for the top four.

We’d played just a quarter of an our when the goal came. City tried to play out from the back, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg nipped in to steal the ball from Rico Lewis and found Kane in the box, who drilled right-footed past Ederson.

It was met by an incredible roar from the crowd, who witnessed history being written in front of their eyes. For the remainder of the first half, City had most of the ball but didn’t cause us too many problems.

Hugo Lloris saved 20-yard efforts comfortably from Bernardo Silva and Rodri, before Jack Grealish curled well wide. We had some promising breakaways but failed to really capitalise, while Eric Dier saw two shots blocked inside the six-yard box during a goalmouth scramble following a corner.

There was a lucky escape on the stroke of half-time as Riyad Mahrez crashed a left-foot shot against the woodwork with Lloris beaten, but we had chances of our own early in the second period, Kane mis-kicking his volley from Emerson Royal’s cross before Ben Davies glanced Ivan Perisic’s corner just over.

It was real end-to-end stuff for the rest of the game, fantastic entertainment. At one end, Dier produced a wonderful block to divert Julian Alvarez’s drive over the bar, while a swift Spurs counter ended with Kane just unable to reach Ivan Perisic’s low ball at the far post.

Alvarez fired over, Kane drilled wide and then bundled through two defenders in the box but was denied by Ederson, Rodri headed over from a corner and Hojbjerg scuffed wide following another breakaway.

Cristian Romero saw red three minutes from time for a foul on Grealish, picking up his second yellow of the game, substitute Kevin De Bruyne firing the resulting free-kick into the wall. Those final few minutes were fairly frantic as City threw everything at us, but we were superb defensively and held out for the win. It was a key victory - but it was also a special occasion for Kane. Congratulations, Harry!