Harry Kane hat-trick fires Spurs into Europa League group stage

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Harry Kane scored a hat-trick and set up another goal as Tottenham eased through to the Europa League group stage with a 7-2 win over Maccabi Haifa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kane and his team-mates showed no signs of fatigue playing their third game in five days and put the Israeli side to the sword&comma; with a Giovani Lo Celso brace&comma; Lucas Moura’s header and a Dele Alli penalty adding to the striker’s treble&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is something fitting about the final scoreline as it came exactly one year to the day that they were beaten 7-2 by Bayern Munich in last season’s Champions League&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Two games in three days is never easy but we got the job done in both&period; Qualification complete&period; ✅⚽️ <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;COYS&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;COYS<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;zd3Zrvhr0f">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;zd3Zrvhr0f<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Harry Kane &lpar;&commat;HKane&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;HKane&sol;status&sol;1311773204101435392&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 1&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They will now rest ahead of Sunday’s Premier League trip to Manchester United&comma; which concludes a hectic schedule&comma; while also waiting to see who they are drawn against in the group stage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jose Mourinho’s men appeared to come through unscathed and the Portuguese also had no problems in giving Kane 73 minutes&comma; despite his complaints over player welfare&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Maccabi Haifa never really posed a threat&comma; though did level at 1-1 through a fine Tjaronn Chery strike&comma; while Nikita Rukavytsya struck a second-half penalty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spurs were back in action 48 hours after beating Chelsea on penalties in the Carabao Cup&comma; but only Toby Alderweireld and Steven Bergwijn were named in both starting XIs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kane played the final 20 minutes against the Blues&comma; but he was still fresh and needed only 93 seconds to prove it as he put Spurs ahead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ben Davies was played in down the left and he fired a ball across goal that Kane simply could not miss from inside the six-yard box&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If Spurs thought they were going to have it all their own way&comma; then Chery quickly gave them other ideas as he forced Joe Hart into a flying save with an effort from distance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He soon found his range&comma; though&comma; and brought Haifa level in the 17th minute with a brilliant strike&comma; this time on his left foot&comma; sending a swerving effort into the top corner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That was as good as it got for the Israeli side&comma; however&comma; as the hosts needed four minutes to regain the lead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Moura was not tracked as he darted to the front post at Steven Bergwijn’s corner and his glancing header found the far post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spurs were cruising and opened up a two-goal lead in the 37th minute when Lo Celso scored his first goal of the season as he curled home after Moura had a header blocked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Three minutes later it got even better for Lo Celso as he coolly clipped home after being played in by Kane to give his side a 4-1 half-time lead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As if the game was not action-packed enough&comma; there were two highly questionable penalties for handball in the space of four minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>First the ball hit Matt Doherty’s arm at point-blank range allowing Haifa to make it 4-2 when Rukavytsya converted&comma; and then Kane restored Tottenham’s three-goal lead after a Davies cross was slammed into Ernest Mabouka’s arm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kane completed his hat-trick in the 74th minute with a trademark cute finish&comma; but Bergwijn deserves the credit as he made it with a sublime piece of skill which left his marker for dead and an inch-perfect throughball&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With Mourinho considering the job done he withdrew Kane immediately&comma; but Spurs still found the net again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alli&comma; brought on as a second-half substitute&comma; converted a penalty that he had won with an excellent piece of skill at the death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11ede734c">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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