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Harry Kane was on target again as Tottenham’s fine start to the Premier League season continued with a 2-0 win over Everton on Saturday.
Kane’s penalty just before the hour mark at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium means he has scored in each of his last five Premier League appearances for Antonio Conte’s side – his longest ever scoring run in the competition.
Wolves edged past Nottingham Forest 1-0, while Fulham and Bournemouth drew 2-2 at Craven Cottage. Leicester City and Crystal Palace, meanwhile, drew 0-0 at the King Power Stadium.
Here, Stats Perform picks out the best facts from the day’s Premier League action.
Tottenham 2-0 Everton: Lampard’s men punished by Kane again
Tottenham got over the line against a dogged Everton side in the day’s late game, meaning Conte’s team have now taken 23 points from 10 league games. It is their highest points tally at this stage of a top-flight campaign since 1963-64 (24 points – considering three points for a win).
Kane’s opener from the spot was his 14th Premier League goal against Everton, with Leicester the only team he has scored against more often (18).
The England captain has now scored 30 of the 34 penalties he has taken for Tottenham in the Premier League, becoming just the fourth player to score 30+ penalties for a single side in the competition after Frank Lampard (41 for Chelsea), Alan Shearer (37 for Newcastle) and Steven Gerrard (32 for Liverpool).
Everton, who conceded a late second to Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, have won just two of their 14 away Premier League games under Lampard (D3 L9), with two defeats at Tottenham (also 5-0 in March).
Wolves 1-0 Nottingham Forest: Hosts come out on top in penalty battle
It was a tale of two penalties at Molineux as Wolves edged out fellow strugglers Forest.
The hosts ended a run of 370 minutes without a Premier League goal thanks to Ruben Neves’ second-half penalty kick – only Raul Jimenez (seven) has scored more goals from the penalty spot in English top-flight history than the Portuguese (six).
Brennan Johnson then squandered the chance to level from the spot, becoming the first Forest player to fail to score a penalty in the Premier League since Stuart Pearce against Coventry City in December 1994.
His attempt was saved by Jose Sa, who has now kept out each of the last two penalties he has faced in the Premier League, after conceding nine of the 10 previous spot-kicks he faced in the competition (one hit the post).
Fulham 2-2 Bournemouth: Mitrovic seals point for Cottagers
Fulham ended a run of 18 consecutive Premier League home defeats when conceding the first goal as they played out an entertaining draw against Bournemouth.
Dominic Solanke gave the visitors an early lead, taking his goal involvement to five goals (two goals, three assists) in his last five Premier League games. That already his best such tally for goal involvements in a single campaign in the competition.
Issa Diop pulled the hosts level, before Jefferson Lerma restored Bournemouth’s advantage with a cool finish. However, Aleksandar Mitrovic the sealed a point for his side from the penalty spot.
The Serbia international has scored five of his seven Premier League goals this season in his five appearances at Craven Cottage – as many goals as he had scored in his previous 30 home games in the competition combined.
Leicester City 0-0 Crystal Palace: Bore draw keeps Foxes in trouble
A dismal goalless draw at the King Power Stadium means Leicester have only won five points from 10 games in the Premier League this season.
Accounting for three points per win all-time, only in 1983-84 have they had fewer points at this stage of a league campaign (two).
It was Palace’s sixth goalless draw in the Premier League under Patrick Vieira. Indeed, they have played out more goalless draws than any other team in the competition since the start of last season.
