Harry Kane injury: Tottenham fear forward is out for season as he leaves stadium on crutches

Tottenham Hotspur fear Harry Kane will miss the rest of the season after injuring his left ankle against Manchester City.

The striker twisted his ankle badly as he clashed with Fabian Delph during the second half of Tottenham’s Champions League quarter-final first-leg victory. Kane was unable to put any weight on his foot and needed help from two members of Spurs staff as he hopped down the tunnel.

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Spurs will wait nervously for results of scans in the coming days, after waiting for swelling to subside, but there are concerns he has injured ligaments in his problematic left ankle.

If the injury is as serious as predicted it will also make him a huge doubt for England’s Nations League semi-final against Holland in June.

‘It’s so painful’

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“If you see the action it’s an action that maybe when he twist his ankle he can maybe damage the ligament again,” Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino said after the match. “We need to check in the next few days. It’s so painful, but what can we do now? It’s impossible. Only look forward and try to recover as quickly as possible, but it doesn’t look good.”

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At the time, City’s Delph reacted angrily to his England team-mate’s reaction, yelling at him as he lay on the floor. Pochettino spoke to Delph on the pitch after the final whistle.

“I was talking to Delph about the situation as he was so upset and angry with Harry in the reaction,” Pochettino added. “I try to make him understand it wasn’t the intention for Harry and him to damage each other. Harry twisted his ankle, he also touched the ball. I said to him: ‘You were lucky, if they check on VAR maybe it was a red card technically.’ I think both were fighting for the ball and no intention to damage each other.”