Happy with the win but wish we had won more comfortably. Never thought we would struggle to beat Burnley at home. We did play well in the first half but failed to make all the chances count. We should have killed off Burney for all the chances that we created. Instead, apart from the goals by Kane and Lamela, we wasted too many chances. Disappointingly this caused us unnecessary tension until the match was over.
Great to see Lamela scoring his first ever league goal for us. And what a goal it was ! It was the sort of long range wonder goals which Bale used to score for us. I had always felt Lamela should try to score those range goals instead of trying to walk the ball into the goal. Nice to see Lamela changing his tactics and scoring for once ! IMO, Lamela was our best player in this match. Apart from the goal, he was troubling the Burnley defence with his dribbling and pace. He created a few good chances for others with his dribbling skills including the sitter which Kane should have scored in the first half. Hope Lamela will be boosted by this performance and goal to do well for us in upcoming matches.
Credit also to Kane for continuing his goal scoring run. But he really should have scored 2/3 goals in this match but wasted them. Really disappointed about him missing the sitter which Lamela had created for him. Lamela would be having much more than just 4 assists for us if our strikers had been more clinical in front of goal this season. For all his 14 goals so far this season, Kane still wastes too many chances in front of goal. He needs to be more consistent and clinical in front of goal if he wants to go on to become a great striker. Felt a bit disappointed Eriksen and Chadli didn't score in this match. Both did well to create the goal for Kane but were largely ineffective other than that. We really could have scored a few goals to improve our negative goal difference if both had been on form.
Also, we really need a top class defensive midfielder to control the midfield. Burnley simply had too many chances which the likes of Bentaleb, Mason or Stambouli couldn't stop. Someone should have stopped the Burnley player from scoring that long range goal. It was really disappointing we couldn't keep a clean sheet at home against a bottom 3 team like Burnley. More disappointingly, Lloris and the defence are conceding too many long range goals this season. We really need that defensive player who will stop those shots.
It was nice to get our 3rd consecutive win in all competitions. But we really need to go on a winning run to stay in the top 4 race. Hope we can do that somehow when we play ManU and Chelsea our next 3 matches.