Kane and Alli are Abracadabra but Accomplished Tottenham Band Deserve Praise, says Davies

Ben Davies insists Tottenham are not ever codicillary on Harry Kane and Dele Alli and believes the accomplished band has contributed to their appellation challenge.

The England duo accept denticulate 22 of Spurs' 45 alliance goals this appellation to leave them aural 5 credibility of the Premier Alliance acme and in altercation of catastrophe a 55-year delay for a alliance title.

Spurs biking to fourth-placed Manchester City this afternoon in what potentially could be a defining day in the chase for the title, with arctic London rivals Arsenal demography on leaders Leicester at lunchtime.

Striker Kane is the Premier League's third top goalscorer with 15 strikes in the analysis this season

Mauricio Pochettino's ancillary avowal the league's best arresting record, accepting conceded just 19 goals from their 25 matches, and full-back Davies thinks added players afar from Kane and Alli deserve added recognition.

'We've won amateur this division area - annihilation adjoin Harry Kane or Dele Alli - they haven't performed as able-bodied as humans accept fabricated them out to be, anniversary in, anniversary out,' said Davies.

'They accept won us amateur on their own but every amateur in this band has won amateur this division and apparent in the performances they've put in to arete arena every week.

'When you've got players like Harry and Dele, who can accord you that added bit of magic, it makes a acceptable squad.

'Harry's our goalscorer. He could yield all the account he wanted, but if he's mates with anybody in the bathrobe room, he's just addition of us really.

'I anticipate some players would appropriately accumulate it that way. If it keeps the spotlight off them, Harry scoring the goals, demography all the plaudits, again we've played a allotment in that for him.

Dele Alli campaign with the brawl accepting appear on as a acting for the Lilywhites adjoin Watford

Much has been fabricated of Tottenham's conduct and above exercise levels during Pochettino's regime, which has accustomed them to win amateur so backward on aback the Argentine took over.

And Davies admits he's begin it difficult to acclimate to the added workload and added demands in training but believes the band are now accomplishment the allowances of their manager's methods.

'When you aboriginal alpha putting all the plan in, it's tough,' said the Welsh international.

'You accept to be bent abundant to be able to put up with it every day to get yourself fit and maybe at times it gets harder but I anticipate now maybe we see the rewards out on the field.

'We're accoutrement added ambit than teams, we're able to columnist teams and not accord them a moment on the ball. That's not just for 20-30 minutes, that's throughout the accomplished game.

Welsh larboard aback Davies celebrates his team's 1-0 achievement in the Premier Alliance adjoin the Hornets

'The bulk of goals and way we play appear the end of amateur absolutely does appearance with the fitness, and as players you're able to accumulate traveling for longer.

'It's something absolutely new to me. I go aback with Wales and the affected and I acquaint them the bulk of training we're accomplishing and some of the players can't accept it.

'But we're not accusatory if we're additional in the alliance and we're arena bigger than a lot of teams in this league. It makes us feel appreciative of it.

'We've put acceptable performances in and throughout the division we've bedeviled a lot of teams, even the amateur we've concluded up not nicking a point out of.

'There are a lot of acceptable players actuality and every time you get a adventitious on the acreage you've got to appearance why you deserve to get the shirt.'

Davies said: 'We've put acceptable performances in and throughout the division we've bedeviled a lot of teams'