VIDEO: Harry Kane breaks new club record! Thanks to his goal, Tottenham once again beat the Citizens

For over fifty years, Jimmy Greaves held the club record for most goals scored by Tottenham Hotspur. However, his feat of 266 shots was surpassed on Sunday. Harry Kane provided the only goal in the home Roosters’ anticipated match with Manchester City. He thus set a new club record, and also secured an important three points.

The twenty-second round of this year’s Premier League is over. Last weekend brought many surprises at the expense of the favourites, as a floundering Everton managed to beat first-placed Arsenal under new coach Dyche. Wolverhampton Wolves dismantled a struggling Liverpool. But another moment will stick in the minds of a certain section of the fans.

The whole round ended at the standard Sunday time of 17:30 with a showdown between Tottenham and Manchester City. The paper favourites before kick-off were undoubtedly the visitors, despite the fact that they last scored on Tottenham’s soil in October 2018.

The home side, currently fifth in the table, were playing for more than just points. In fact, the team’s main star Harry Kane entered the match with the hope of setting a new club record for goals if he scored accurately. He had scored 266 goals in total before Sunday’s game. Club legend Jimmy Greaves has also managed to collect the same amount in his career.

Greaves was unstoppable in the 1960s. He became the top scorer in the elite competition six times in a Tottenham jersey. No one has come close to breaking his record for a long time. After a wait of more than 50 years, Harry Kane rewrote the historical tables on Sunday night.

In the fifteenth minute, it was a misplaced pass by the visiting midfielder Rodri. Hojbjerg received the loose ball twenty yards from goal, then found Kane in the whitewash and he made no mistake in his finish.

The home stadium erupted with joy at that moment, not only at leading 1: 0, but also at breaking the Beard’s record. It’s just a pity that Greaves himself, who died the year before, didn’t live to see this moment.

For Kane, it was his 200th Premier League goal. He reduced the gap to top scorer Alan Shearer, which currently stands at sixty goals.

At the age of twenty-nine, Kane is on his way to the first place in this statistic as well. But his main goal is a little different, to finally win his first major trophy.

Source: ESPN, Tottenham