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HARRY KANE scored with two minutes left to give the Spurs a lucky victory.
And for West Brom and his manager Slaven Bilic, it was a massive body shot, as they deserved a point.
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But Tottenham found a way to win with Kane by taking advantage of a confusion between goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and defender Kyle Bartley to lead the winner.
Gareth Bale made his first Premier League game since scoring the only goal in Tottenham’s 1-0 win against Sunderland in May 2013.
But as Spurs players celebrated Kane’s header, Bale was back on the bench after being replaced after an average team performance.
Six days after losing 2-0 at Fulham, West Brom performed much better and this loss will certainly hurt.
Talk about the things that don’t go your way. West Brom even suffered a hit before kick-off, as Branislav Ivanovic and attacker Matheus Pereira missed out after testing positive for Covid-19.
However, for much of the first half, West Brom was the better team and the Spurs, despite having Bale, Kane and Son Heung-min up front, were poor.
You would have put up quite a bit of Son opening the scoring in the 13th minute, but it took what seemed like an eternity to fire before handling a weak effort and was blocked by Bartley.
Local forward Karlan Grant was guilty of missing an even better chance than Son’s, but he threw a terrible header from an excellent cross from Darnell Furlong.
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Eric Dier threw a timely header down the line to avoid an effort by Callum Robinson with Grant waiting to jump.
West Brom also started the second half well and Dara O’Shea came in with a header.
Bale, who had been expertly chained by the home defense, finally found himself in a reasonably dangerous position, but failed to connect properly to Kane’s tremendous pass.
Bale then became supplier with a free kick that Kane headed wide, while West Brom goalkeeper Johnstone finally had a couple of saves to make off the efforts of Sergio Reguilon e Son.
The Spurs lost Tanguy Ndombele after a challenge from Bartley and moments after arriving as a substitute, Giovani Lo Celso got his feet into a mess and threw the ball when he should have scored.
West Brom had its moments too and Grant forced an instinctive stop from Lloris.
Bale was replaced by Lucas Moura with 13 minutes remaining, while Carlos Vinicius made his Premier League debut when he replaced Moussa Sissoko.
And with seven minutes to go, Johnstone produced an impressive one-handed save to ward off a drive from Vinicius.
However, with just a few minutes to go, Johnstone couldn’t get out through the middle of Matt Doherty, Bartley couldn’t get close to Kane and the England captain scored with his head.
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