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The Moussa Sissoko experiment

The Frenchman is always going to be working with a disadvantage this season when he starts a match because a) that price tag (which wasn't his fault); b) his appearances on the whole have often been awkward and mistake strewn amid the odd bright spot and c) fan opinion is already against him and that's a tough thing to shift.

On Thursday night, it soon became apparent that the Frenchman was going to be playing a new role when he began warming up with defenders Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Ben Davies. The Welshman and Sissoko in particular were going through heading and passing drills ahead of kick-off.

What ensued certainly wasn't a horror show though. There was the odd slip and misplaced pass, but on the whole Sissoko did the job asked of him effectively within a brilliant team performance.

Not much from a Leicester perspective came down his side and when it did Alderweireld, playing on the right rather than the centre, was there to cover.

The France international was even heavily involved in the third and fourth goals. His previous performances have ensured he is unlikely to ever be a fans' favourite, but Moussa Sissoko proved to Mauricio Pochettino at the King Power Stadium that his versatility might just be worth keeping around.

Son - a player who can delight and frustrate in equal measure

Heung-Min Son is having a brilliant season. He's now got 21 goals, making Spurs the only team in all the English divisions to have three players with more than 20 goals under their belt- the first time it's ever happened at the club.

However, the South Korean must have the odd quiet moment when he thinks to himself just how many goals he could have to his name if he took all the chances he's presented with, or even half of them.

He's been a revelation this season with his goals and five assists and all round creative, defensive splitting play and runs.

However, Son is a player who can score in an instant with an instinctive shot, like his first goal at the King Power Stadium, but give him a second or two to think about it and he's likely to waste it, like his first four efforts of the night.

The caveat to that is when his confidence is flowing. He had plenty of time to think about his second goal on Thursday night and executed a delightful drag back before the curling shot into the bottom right corner.

He's made himself a vital part of this Tottenham squad and last summer, when he asked to leave the club, seems a long, long time ago.

Eriksen was able to take a rest

So important has Christian Eriksen to the way Spurs have ticked this season, that when his name was first spotted among the substitutes, despite being a match with little to play for other than pride, there was a sense of unease among many.

How could Tottenham create without the man who had laid on 21 assists for his team-mates in all competitions, plus 12 goals of his own? The answer was with little worry.

They scored six on the night and could have had double figures. Everybody stepped up their creative game, with Mousa Dembele driving through the middle despite his foot woes.

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Alderweireld's contribution can't be overlooked. There was a glorious lofted pass into Son's feet for the first goal before the attacker squared to Kane, then the Belgian's perfect chipped cross for Wanyama to head across to Kane for the third. In between Dele Alli picked out Son with another perfect chipped ball.

Son's second was all of his own making, but youngster Filip Lesniak might just be able to claim an assist for Kane's hat-trick goal and Davies for his fourth. The team was absolutely brimming with creation on a wet night in Leicester.

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The boss is right, there's nobody else quite like Harry Kane

"It is difficult to find another striker in the world like him," said the Spurs manager about his attacking talisman after the game and you would struggle to disagree.

Few strikers in world football have the all round game of Harry Kane right now. There are poachers and target men, but it's a rare commodity to have someone who combines both to such devastating effect. His upper body strength is ridiculous at times, defenders bounce off him and he appears to only be getting stronger.

Kane has hit 32 goals this season in all competitions, despite missing two long periods with injuries to the same ankle. That's three seasons now of prolific scoring for the one season wonder. Plenty of tap-ins and penalties as well among his four goals at the King Power Stadium last night.... oh.

The Leicester fans began the night by singing 'You're just a s**t Jamie Vardy' to him, but by the end of the game it was the always vocal Spurs fans who were singing it loudly back from their corner with more than a touch of sarcasm.

Another Pochettino stigma thrown by the wayside

"Mauricio Pochettino teams always tire towards the end of the season". It's a claim that has been thrown at the Argentine ever since he arrived in England.

Rent-a-quote Dutch fitness coach Raymond Verheijen is often wheeled out on radio stations or television to bemoan the methods of Pochettino, Klopp or Guardiola whenever there is an injury or a dip in form. Teams that press are the enemy of fit players apparently.

However, you'd struggle to level any such accusations at Tottenham this season. The performances against Arsenal, Manchester United and Leicester in the final weeks of the season have showcased a Spurs side that looks as fit and energetic as it has at any other point of the season.

Whether it's a tweak to training, more rotation or simply changes to when and where Spurs press on the pitch and when they don't, Pochettino appears to have found the key.

Bearing in mind most of the main players played international football throughout last summer and the team have faced a couple of long-term unfortunate injuries to the likes of Lamela and Rose this season, the proof is in the fact that Spurs have lost just four Premier League this campaign.

Pochettino and his team of coaches have worked wonders and he is determined that next season they only get better. That's an ominous sign for the rest of football.