Harry Kane scored an August goal for the first time in his career, adding to goals from Lucas Moura and Kieran Trippier in Spurs’ win over Fulham.

Harry Kane scored an August goal for the first time in his career, adding to goals from Lucas Moura and Kieran Trippier in Spurs’ win over Fulham.

Harry Kane scored an August goal for the first time in his career, adding to goals from Lucas Moura and Kieran Trippier in Spurs’ win over Fulham.

Mauricio Pochettino admitted it was important for Harry Kane to finally score a goal in August.
Tottenham Hotspur maintained their winning start to the season, responding to a Fulham fight back by scoring twice in the final 16 minutes at Wembley.

Lucas Moura gave Spurs a deserved half-time advantage with a fine 20-yard, curling strike, but the North Londoners had a wobble after the break and Aleksandar Mitrovic equalised with a close-range header.

Kieran Trippier restored Tottenham’s lead with a 74th-minute free kick though, and Harry Kane then put the hosts out of sight, scoring his first…

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The FC guys answer your tweets about the controversies in the World Cup final, Paul Pogba’s performance and where the 2018 World Cup ranks all time.
The World Cup is over, but who are the 11 best performers of the tournament? From the flying brilliance of England’s Jordan Pickford to the rapier speed of Kylian Mbappe, here’s who impressed us the most.

ESPN FC’s World Cup team of the tournament.
Goalkeeper: As England’s hero of the hour, Jordan Pickford helped the Three Lions banish their World Cup shootout curse by denying Colombia’s Carlos Bacca from the spot in the round of 16. The Everton goalkeeper was only elected to be No.1 on the eve of the tournament, but he was unfazed by the…

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Former England captain Steven Gerrard says he’s proud of the country’s performances at the World Cup, after their run was brought to an end by Croatia in the semi-finals.

The ESPN FC crew discuss England’s inability to adjust to Croatia’s pressure and question if they underestimated their offensive prowess.
Kieran Trippier is fit to play for England in the World Cup third-place game against Belgium after training with the rest of the squad on Friday.
The Tottenham Hotspur defender limped off in extra time of England’s 2-1 semifinal loss to Croatia on Wednesday with a groin strain, having given his team the lead from a free kick in the fifth minute.
Jordan Henderson and Kyle Walker, who were also fitness doubts after being forced off in the additional period against Croatia, also trained to ensure that…

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Mario Mandzukic and Croatia completed their comeback in extra time, defeating England to advance to their first-ever World Cup final.

Football won’t be coming home to England as Croatia found their spark in the second half and Extra Time to down the Three Lions and move on to the final.
Mario Mandzukic broke English hearts in extra time to send Croatia through to their first-ever World Cup final after a gruelling match in Moscow.

Ivan Perisic’s poked goal had cancelled out Kieran Trippier’s spectacular early free kick to send the match beyond regulation, and Mandzukic pounced on the Inter forward’s header to fire low beyond Jordan Pickford for what proved to be the winner.

Positives
England have made history and reignited the passion of a nation by reaching the semi-finals…

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England may have their eyes set on Sweden, but John Stones still can’t get over Colombia’s aggression from the Three Lions’ historic penalty shootout win.

Steve McManaman feels England must remain grounded despite the growing belief that “it’s coming home”.
Kieran Trippier has defended England’s gamesmanship in their contentious win over Colombia in the round of 16 on Tuesday.
Gareth Southgate’s side, who went through on penalties, were criticised outside of England for what many perceived to be Three Lions players going down too easily and over-embellishing in the face of aggressive opposition.
Colombia manager Jose Pekerman accused England’s players of faking fouls while Jose Mourinho said he was surprised by the “exaggeration on theatre by…

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England dominated with a five-goal outburst in the first half and Harry Kane completed his hat trick in the second half en route to a 6-1 win over Panama.
England recorded their biggest-ever win at a World Cup finals in Nizhny Novgorod, beating an overmatched and ill-disciplined Panama side 6-1 to book their place in the Round of 16 with a game to spare.
Harry Kane scored a hat trick to move to the top of the Golden Boot race, while John Stones also found the net twice and Jesse Lingard curled in a spectacular strike as Gareth Southgate’s men showed the clinical edge so lacking in their opening game against Tunisia.
Positives
The ruthlessness only…

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Sebastian Salazar and Herculez Gomez explain how Juan Carlos Osorio’s tactics played a big role in Mexico’s defeat of Germany at the World Cup.

Craig Burley believes if Germany are to rebound from their “Mexico wake-up call”, they’ll need to rethink both their tactics and starting XI.

Raphael Honigstein joins the FC panel to discuss the ramifications of Germany’s defeat to Mexico, Mats Hummels’ postmatch comments and more.

The first round of group stage games in the 2018 World Cup are complete and already, we’ve seen some stand-out performances. Matt Stanger picks the team of the round in Russia.

Goalkeeper: There were plenty of candidates to fill the goalkeeper position in Team of the Round, with Mohamed El-Shenawy impressing in Egypt’s narrow 1-0 defeat to Uruguay and Guillermo Ochoa keeping Germany at bay. It’s difficult to look past Hannes Halldorsson though, after the Iceland No.1 saved a penalty from Lionel…

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Dele Alli and Harry Kane.
While Arsenal were on their way out of the Europa League on Thursday night, three Tottenham players had something better to do — playing Fortnite with the world-renowned Tyler “Ninja” Blevins.
Alli, whose stream of the popular video game last week drew over 25,000 viewers on Twitch, joined up with the famous streamer and Spurs teammates Harry Kane and Kieran Trippier to play online for about 90 minutes.
Together, Ninja and Alli’s streams attracted about 200,000 viewers — not quite the 

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Liverpool’s Joe Gomez insists that being named in the England squad is a dream come true but is expecting difficult friendlies against Germany and Brazil.
Joe Gomez was putting up wall charts in his parents’ house at the last World Cup — now the defender is pressing his case to be involved on the biggest stage with England.
The 20-year-old was one of several surprise call-ups to an experimental senior squad, with Liverpool teammates Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Daniel Sturridge among the names conspicuous by their absence.
A lack of game time cost the duo their place, whereas Gomez’s run under Jurgen Klopp means he in line to make his senior debut…

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Spurs dominated Real, Sergio Aguero became Man City’s all-time scorer in their win, and Liverpool cruised in the UCL.

Real Madrid suffer their first group stage loss since 2012 at the hands of Tottenham at Wembley Stadium.

Real Madrid suffer their first group stage loss since 2012 at the hands of Tottenham at Wembley Stadium.

Relive the best moments from Wednesday’s Champions League action, headlined by Tottenham’s dominant win over Real Madrid.

The FC pundits talk how Mauricio Pochettino, without the use of the transfer market, was able to get Tottenham in a position to pull off a big win over Real Madrid.

The ESPN FC panel break down one of Tottenham’s biggest ever wins, as Spurs exposed Real Madrid to having serious issues throughout their squad.
Two goals from Dele Alli and another from Christian Eriksen gave Spurs a deserved 3-1 victory over Champions League favourites Real Madrid.
After a cagey start, Spurs took the lead just before the half hour mark when Alli tapped home an inch-perfect cross from Kieran Trippier. Spurs added two more after the break, the third a move of sublime simplicity and beauty — Madrid were simply torn apart.
Cristiano Ronaldo pulled one back for the visitors late on, but that was too little too late.
Positives
Life…

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