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Tottenham boss Conte reveals set Kane role planned for victory over Eintracht Frankfurt

Tottenham boss Antonio Conte admits he fielded Harry Kane in a set position for victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.

Conte admits he had mapped out the role from last week's Champions League meeting in Germany.

He explained, "I think that for us it was really, really important the first leg that we played against Eintracht Frankfurt. In that game we could win but we didn't exploit many important situations.

"In this game we had two days to work and to prepare situations to hurt them and I think the position of Harry was really, really important. Today I asked him to stay in a specific position. In my opinion he played in a really fantastic way and he made our system.

"He scored and he could have scored the second penalty. The combination was good [between him and Son] and Richy was also good with the strikers. I repeat now the game has ended. Now our thoughts have to be for the next game against Everton. It will be difficult, it will be tough.

"We have to recover energy and today I tried to give a bit of rest because we conceded the game close for the result. We have to recover and prepare for the game against Everton well. Good news because Deki Kulusevski will probably be available and Lucas Moura came back to today to play for 10 minutes. We have all the players available and that's good news for us."

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