Hats off to the Premier League top scorer

(Baonghean.vn) - StrikerSpurs striker Harry Kane scored a hat-trick in Tottenham's 7-1 win over relegated hosts Hull City andWith 29 goals he officially became the top scorer.Premier League 2016/2017. This is also the second consecutive seasonHarry Kane is the Premier League's top scorerLeague, a perfect achievement for the 23-year-old striker.

This is the third consecutive season that the 23-year-old striker has scored more than 20 goals/season in the Premier League. The number of goals scored by the Tottenham striker in the last three seasons is 21, 25 and 29 goals respectively. If in the 2014-2015 season, he ranked behind Aguero (26 goals), then in the 2015-2016 season he became the top scorer at the age of 22, becoming the first English player to achieve this feat after Kevin Philipps of Sunderland in the 1999/2000 season.

Goal scoring instinct

Striker Harry Kane officially became the top scorer of the Premier League 2016/2017 with 29 goals. Photo: Internet.

Only 23 years old, Kane has shown his killer instinct and stability in competition. This season, in addition to 29 goals, Harry Kane also has 7 assists and participated in a total of 36/86 goals of Spurs. In all competitions, he has 35 goals this season, an impressive number for a player who is only 23 years old. If we only consider the number of assists Kevin de Bruyne (Man City) - 18 assists ranked first, Kane ranked 11th, not a bad achievement for a center forward.

A poker against Leicester and a hat-trick against Hull City took Kane's total hat-tricks in 2017 to five. He became only the second player to reach that milestone in the Premier League, equalling the legendary Alan Shearer.

With these stats, no Premier League top scorer has been involved in more goals than Harry Kane. Not to mention, Kane has a shot on target rate of 67%, higher than any other Premier League attacking star. This season, Kane had two periods of absence due to ankle injuries, so in total he has played just over 2,500 minutes, 700 minutes less than Lukaku (25 goals) and Alexis Sanchez (24 goals).

Thus, after 30 matches, he has 29 goals, reaching 0.97 goals/match, achieving the highest efficiency in the history of the Premier League.

The 23-year-old striker's strength is not only his good positioning, but also his willingness to move and shoot from distance. This season, Kane has had a total of 85 shots, ranking in the top 3 of Premier League strikers with the most shots. Statistics show that on average, the Spurs striker has 1.4 shots outside the box per game, more than Alexis Sanchez and Aguero's 1.3 shots outside the box per game or Lukaku's 0.8 shots outside the box per game.

Good ball control is also Kane's strength. On average, he only loses the ball 1.6 times per match this season, less than Aguero's 2.2 times; Lukaku's 2.4 times; Alexis Sanchez's 3.3 times or Diego Costa's 3.4 times/match.

Pochettino's mark

Coach Pochettino is the man behind Kane's success. Photo: Internet.

Kane spent years honing his skills at lower-league clubs Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich, Leicester City. But it was only under the talented Pochettino that his killer instinct was awakened.

Before arriving at White Hart Lane, under Pochettino, Southampton had been playing beautiful football with the likes of Luke Shaw, Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Jay Rodriguez, local talents who had been called up to the England squad thanks to their impressive form at the club. So the Argentine coach knew how to make Kane play simply but effectively.

Coach Pochettino, who is behind Kane's success, commented on his student: "Kane can do it. He is young and has great potential to improve. Above all, he has the spirit of learning, which is the most important thing for a player. Currently, in my opinion, Kane is one of the best strikers in the world." Currently, Kane has 78 goals in 113 appearances for Tottenham and aims to reach the 100-goal mark next year.

But once Man United, specifically Jose Mourinho, have been linked with him many times, anything can happen. Compared to strikers Griezmann (Atletico), Belotti (Torino), Mbappe (Monaco), Kane is a much greater guarantee of successful integration when arriving at Old Trafford.

Of course, Pochettino does not want to sell his favorite student to a direct competitor in the Premier League. But if MU wins the right to participate in the Champions League and the "blockbuster" is thrown by the Old Trafford owners, anything is possible.

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