Alan Shearer says Tottenham striker Harry Kane should not have started the Champions League final loss to Liverpool.

It was Kane's first match since the quarter-final against Manchester City and Shearer thinks manager Mauricio Pochettino made the wrong decision.

Writing in a column for The Sun, Shearer said: "I'm sure Pochettino agonised over whether to start Harry Kane but he got that one wrong.

"Kane didn't look fit at all and didn't turn up in Madrid — he was nowhere near as sharp as he could and should have been.

"He may never feature in a European Cup final again so he would have been desperate to play. But you have to judge him on his performance and he simply wasn't 100 per cent fit.

"To play one was a gamble, to play two who haven't played for that long was a huge risk and it didn't pay off.

"I'm sure Pochettino will be thinking "If only". If only he had done something different. Lucas Moura could have offered them an alternative way of playing."