Tottenham striker Harry Kane admits a poor first-half cost them in defeat to Liverpool.

Kane struck in the 2-1 reverse on Sunday night.

He later said: "It has been the story of our season so far - we haven't played well enough in the first half and got punished.

"We fought until the end and we knew if we got one back we would have chances to get a second but unfortunately we couldn't do it and it's disappointing.

"We need to be better at controlling games and we have to look back at this game but I don't think it was terrible, we just got punished with two clinical goals.

"In the second half we were the better team so we will not panic but we need to be better for sure."