This match ended up as a reminder that Harry Kane can never truly be contained. The England striker had endured the type of afternoon that would send most forwards apologetically back into their shells, a pair of misses from point-blank range surely playing on his mind as Tottenham ran aground on a blanket defence. Yet Roy Hodgson, frantically reorganising his back-line as the contest drifted towards its denouement, must have known how this tends to play out.
The Crystal Palace manager, when in charge of the national team, had once looked to Kane to salvage situations and here was the striker peeling away from the clutter in the six-yard box at Christian Eriksen’s late corner to eke out space at the far post.
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