Harry Kane has scored more goals than seven Premier League clubs this year… his stats over 2017 prove the Spurs star is one of the world's best
- Harry Kane has scored more goals than seven Premier League clubs during 2017
- The 24-year-old's brace against Huddersfield took his goal tally this month to 13
- The Tottenham striker is the second-highest scorer this year across Europe
- Only Barcelona star Lionel Messi has more goals than him this year with 43
- Kane has also scored more goals than anyone in the league between the start of a calendar year and the end of September - beating Ron Davies
Tottenham were simply magnificent. There is no better example of just how impressive and ruthless Mauricio Pochettino's side can be than their display against Huddersfield.
This was not necessarily going to be a walk in the park for Spurs either, if anything, this was a potential banana skin, given the Premier League new boys' start. But that went out the window and was in the bin after the first 45.
Harry Kane was at the heart of everything Pochettino's side done good. He has been an absolute goal-scoring machine recently and illustrated that once more at the John Smith's Stadium.
Harry Kane has scored more than seven Premier League clubs during the whole of 2017 so far
There really is no superlative that does this clinical finisher justice. Kane has simply been sensational over the last 12 months. To give that context, his double on Saturday afternoon took him on level goals with Bournemouth for the whole of 2017.
The 24-year-old has netted 36 times this year and is above seven Premier League clubs in the standings. He leads Southampton, Swansea, Burnley, Watford, Stoke, West Brom and Crystal Palace in the charts.
That record means he also beats out Ron Davies, who previously held the record for the most goals scored from the start of a calendar year until the end of September. Davies set that record in 1967.
He, though, like any striker, will most likely be disheartened he didn't register his seventh hat-trick of the year despite having several chances to.
The six that he does have for club and country this year is three times as high as any other player in the 'big five' European leagues apart from Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. And even he only has three.
His double against Huddersfield took his tally to 13 for September - the highest of his career
Kane even has the most hat-tricks across all the major European leagues this year
Kane is even making strides in the goals per club game standings for 2017 and only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have a better goal-a-game ratio across Europe. His rate of 1.13 is significantly higher than Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, who has an average of 0.94 goals per appearance.
He is also the second-highest goalscorer across the major European leagues in 2017, trailing Barcelona ace Messi - who has 43 goals - by seven.
ALL COMPETITONS - 2017 | GOALS |
---|---|
Tottenham Hotspur | 92 |
Manchester City | 92 |
Chelsea | 85 |
Manchester United | 83 |
Arsenal | 76 |
Liverpool | 55 |
Everton | 52 |
Leicester City | 50 |
Newcastle United | 49 |
Brighton and Hove Albion | 45 |
Huddersfield Town | 44 |
Harry Kane | 36 |
Bournemouth | 36 |
West Ham United | 36 |
Southampton | 34 |
Swansea City | 33 |
Watford | 33 |
Burnley | 32 |
Stoke City | 30 |
West Bromwich Albion | 29 |
Crystal Palace | 26 |
And all of this with an August dry patch. The England international's fortunes have certainly taken a drastic U-turn with the Spurs striker springing back to life this month.
His failure to find the back of the net during August was well documented. Has the pressure got to him? Was he just a three-season wonder? If there is such a thing, were the questions everyone was asking.
Even the Spurs fans highlighted that fact, with tongue firmly lodged in cheek they sung 'he's just a one-season wonder' during their game on Saturday.
But there was nothing unusual about Kane not scoring last month. In the nine seasons he's been in and around the Tottenham first-team squad he has never scored a Premier League goal in August.
Trying to convince any doubters Kane had left would be like preaching to the choir now, after his unbelievable run of goals this month. His double against the Terriers took his tally to 13 goals in September - his best ever goal tally in a single month of his career.
And just to make it clear that this 24-year-old man from Chingford deserves to be spoke of in the same breath as the world's best, his 13 goals equals the highest tallies in a single month set by both Messi (13 in March 2012) and Ronaldo (13 in Oct 2010). Missing out on that hat-trick probably hurts a bit more now.
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