Harry Kane ranks victory over Man United among Tottenham's best five under Mauricio Pochettino

Harry Kane believes Tottenham produced one of their top five displays under Mauricio Pochettino in beating Manchester United last night – and he is hoping for a repeat performance at Liverpool on Sunday.

Jose Mourinho’s side arrived at Wembley in fine form, having kept clean sheets in their six previous matches and won the last five.

However, Christian Eriksen fired Spurs into the lead after just 11 seconds, and Kieran Trippier’s low cross then forced an own goal from Phil Jones before the break.

The hosts went on to have 22 shots, compared to United’s six, as they repeatedly threatened to extend their lead.

Asked where Spurs’ performance ranks during Pochettino’s tenure, Kane said: “I’d say top five probably. We’ve had some good performances, especially at home against the big teams, but this one is definitely up there.

“Throughout the game, they never really looked like threatening us. The defence was great – Jan [Vertonghen] and Davinson [Sanchez] – and the whole team just played well.

“It could have been more. You don’t normally get that many opportunities against United. They’re normally solid at the back and you have to break them down – but obviously getting that goal so quickly opened up the game for us and the only downside was that we didn’t score more.

“Sometimes we say before the game ‘let’s go for this today [from the kick-off]’ and it worked out well. It was important. It set us off for getting runners in behind, trusting that we’re going to win the first ball and then the second ball. That’s how we played throughout the whole pitch and it worked well for us.

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“From the start we were winning first and second balls and, when we got it down, we kept it. We played some great football, created a lot of chances. It was just a really good game for us and that has to be our focus for the rest of the season – to try to match that.

“We had to play well because we’ve got tough games coming up. A couple of results went our way this week and now we’ve got to do the same on Sunday [at Liverpool].”

Spurs’ trip to Anfield last February was one of their worst outings of the season as they fell to a meek 2-0 defeat, with both of the goals coming in the opening 18 minutes – but Kane feels Spurs will be better prepared mentally this time.

“I think so. We’ve got to put in the same performance [as last night],” he said. “Liverpool are a very strong team, especially at home, attacking. They’ve got some fast players and last year we didn’t cope with that very well and we were poor throughout the whole team.

“We can take confidence from last night’s win, and this is the performance we need to play against the big teams, home and away. We played well against Liverpool at home obviously (a 4-1 win in October) so we have to go there full of confidence.”

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