BARLOW: There is room for improvement for Harry Kane in one crucial area

The last time Harry Kane reached this stage of the Champions League he was injured and unable to contribute in the usual way.

With Tottenham trailing 3-0 on aggregate at Ajax, Kane made his way down from his seat in the stands to the dressing room to deliver a half-time pep talk.

Whether the inspiration came from him or boss Mauricio Pochettino, who also spoke, or neither of them, Lucas Moura responded with a hat trick.

Spurs went into the final in Madrid and Kane, after two months out, declared himself fit. Moura went back to the bench. Liverpool won 2-0.

Heartbreak for Tottenham who did not expect to win the Champions League but were beginning to wonder if their name was on the cup.

It wasn't. It rarely is these days.

Five years on, Kane is still waits for the major trophy nobody will begrudge him after a decade of pure excellence.

Ten successive seasons scoring 24 goals or more for his club.

This, his first at Bayern Munich, has been his best in terms of goals. He has taken to life in Germany, acquiring the efficiency of Gerd Muller and Karlheinz Rummenigge while deployed between a pair of lightning quick wingers.

Two goals in a 2-1 win against Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday took him to 400 senior goals for club and country, and to 42 for Bayern for the season, beyond his previous best single-season club haul of 41 for Spurs in 2017/18.

That was arguably his finest Premier League campaign. The one in which Pep Guardiola dubbed them The Harry Kane Team, much to Pochettino's annoyance.

Kane's goals fired Tottenham to third behind the two Manchester clubs despite lodging at Wembley.

He was beaten to the Golden Boot by Mo Salah, who also won the FWA Footballer of the Year award with Kane third behind Kevin De Bruyne but the