Dele Alli is getting better. We already know that he’s incredibly gifted, a budding superstar at 22 years old. The sheer diversity of roles he has been asked to perform for Spurs, the vast number of things he has been asked to do, can sometimes make it hard to see exactly how he’s getting better, but he is. And this season, through three games, the Premier League is being introduced to yet another version of this supremely talented midfielder.



Alli’s most memorable moments in a Spurs kit have come in and around the penalty area, whether that’s playing as an outlet, peeling away to the corner to recover long balls out of defense and feed them to Kane for tap-ins, or popping up in the penalty area himself to get on the end of crosses from creators like Christian Eriksen, or his wonder volley against Crystal Palace that helped vault him to stardom.



A brief look at his topline numbers from last season might suggest a player who had an off year. For...