Tottenham's Harry Kane Gets First Hat-trick of the Season

Tottenham Hotspur beat A.F.C. Bournemouth 5-1 due to Harry Kane’s hat-trick along with the Cherries’ shoddy defense and goalkeeping.

Boom. Hat-trick. Is it too early to say that Harry Kane is back? Yes and no.

While Kane’s first goal happened to be from the penalty spot, it’s still a goal in the end. With that said though, Harry Kane had missed a few penalties last season so even for him to attempt a goal from just twelve yards out is hardly going to be automatic for a striker who has been in a slump since the first game of the season.

After Tottenham were able to equalize off of Harry Kane’s first goal from a penalty kick, which by the way Tottenham deserved because Bournemouth’s goalkeeper, Artur Boruc, totally slid into Kane, then the second goal was a bit more challenging.

During the 56th minute, Christian Eriksen would send in a great cross from the left side of the pitch and dinked it over Bournemouth’s backline. The ball would be escaping Harry Kane who was forced to make a sliding effort to score his second goal of the game. Fifty-six minutes later and Tottenham led 4-1 .

Harry Kane’s third and final goal was a gift.

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Tottenham were given a corner kick and Christian Eriksen laid in a ball to Toby Alderweireld who headed it towards goal that Artur Boruc made a good save — he had to after an earlier save attempt was too weak which gave Érik Lamela an easy tap-in goal in the 29th minute that gave Tottenham a 3-1 lead at the time.

Unfortunately for the Polish goalkeeper, history would repeat itself 34 minutes later, as Harry Kane was sitting up top with Boruc waiting for the rebound to slot in his third goal and secure a hat-trick. A poacher’s goal if you will, but no one should be complaining how Harry Kane scores goals. As long as he does.

However! There is something to be wary about.

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Yes Harry Kane got a hat-trick which is well deserved, rightfully so, but this doesn’t mean that he is back and in-form once again.

This isn’t a fluke either. Last season, the 22-year-old Englishman scored 31 goals in all competitions last season and a few games saw him score a brace (4 games) and a couple games Kane scored a hat-trick (2 games).

This is par for the course for a player who has gotten oh-so-close on a number of occasions already this season but hasn’t gotten goals, except one against Manchester City which can be argued that he was slightly offsides. Now with Harry Kane scoring three today, his season tally is at four goals in the Premier League.

Mauricio Pochettino and Tottenham supporters should tread lightly after today’s performance by Harry Kane. Until he can continue scoring a goal in every other game, or every two games, then the title of one-season wonder will be still be applied. Because going three or four games without a goal will seem as if he’s still struggling. But as long as the rest of the team can score in Harry Kane’s place — which they have — and Spurs are winning games in the end it really shouldn’t matter as much that the striker position can’t contribute like everyone would have wanted to see. Whether it’s Harry Kane, Clinton N’Jie or Heung-Min Son (when he returns from injury).

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane Gets His First Hat-trick of the Season

By Alexander Balano | Oct 25, 2015

Tottenham Hotspur beat A.F.C. Bournemouth 5-1 due to Harry Kane’s hat-trick along with the Cherries’ shoddy defense and goalkeeping.

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