Bergwijn’s injury-time double snatches Tottenham stunning win at Leicester

Steven Bergwijn, fortunate only to have been booked for shoving Caglar Soyuncu as this game entered injury time with Leicester City winning 2-1, scored the two goals in stoppage time that enabled Tottenham Hotspur to climb to fifth place in the Premier League.

The Dutch winger, strongly linked with a possible move to Ajax, only came on in the 79th minute as Antonio Conte sought to extend his unbeaten league start as Spurs manager to nine games.

His frustration seemed to boil over as, having fallen easily to the ground seeking an unlikely penalty, he reacted angrily to Soyuncu telling him to get up.

Instead Bergwijn sent Spurs fans into delirium as he equalized when Matt Doherty’s run into the area saw the ball fall off Soyuncu’s chest for the £25m winger to slot home.

Then, when Youri Tielemans sloppily gave the ball away from kick-off, Harry Kane sent Bergwijn through the middle to round Kasper Schmeichel and shoot past Soyuncu on the line and in off the far post. Bergwijn hurdled the hoardings to celebrate with the Spurs fans and, when the final whistle on a crazy game blew seconds later, it was Kane who led the impassioned partying with the visiting crowd.

Neither team had kicked a Premier League ball since New Year’s Day or before but amidst all the Covid cases, cup games and cacophony over postponements, Spurs had burst out of the traps with all the zest usually accompanying a new season.

Despite Leicester somehow taking the lead through Patson Daka midway through the first half, Kane’s equaliser seven minutes before the break against his favourite opponents was among his seven attempts on goal in a topsy-turvy 45 minutes.

Kane has 18 goals in 17 games against Leicester, the team for whom he scored twice in 13