Updated 15.25
HARRY KANE HIT his 20th goal of the Premier League season as Tottenham Hotspur crushed Bournemouth 4-0 to cut Chelsea’s lead at the top of the table to four points.
Mousa Dembele, Son Heung-Min and Vincent Janssen were also on target at White Hart Lane.
Kane hit a milestone on his return from injury, his third campaign in a row hitting 20 goals. The Tottenham striker is only the fourth Premier League player to achieve the feat, after Shearer, Henry and van Nistelrooy.
Tottenham also completed a run of seven consecutive top-flight victories for the first time in 50 years. Mauricio Pochettino’s side bettered their 2015-16 points total and equalled the previous streak set by the likes of Jimmy Greaves, Terry Venables and Dave Mackay in the Spurs team of 1967.
The victory moves Spurs within four points of Premier League leaders Chelsea, who travel to Manchester United on Sunday.
Dembele had not scored since January 2016 but he hit the net with aplomb after 16 minutes, before Kane’s flick set up Son to double Spurs’ lead, and the England striker scored his 20th league goal of the season early in the second half.
Janssen then rounded off the win in stoppage time. Defeat left Bournemouth and their leaky defence in danger of being dragged back into the relegation scrap, while Spurs maintained the imperious form that is forcing their London rivals to keep looking over their shoulder in the title run-in.
Kane was caught offside when an early chance fell to him at close range after six minutes, before Kyle Walker broke to tee up Dembele, whose sweetly struck low drive from outside the box was well saved by Artur Boruc.
Source: Nigel French
The Bournemouth goalkeeper was helpless to prevent Dembele from scoring his first goal of the season three minutes later, when Christian Eriksen’s corner was allowed to bounce through the box and the Belgian rattled the ball through Boruc’s legs and into the far corner of the net.