A brace from Son Heung-Min and goals from Dele Alli and Serge Aurier were enough for Spurs to claim a comeback victory over Bournemouth on Sunday, despite losing Harry Kane to injury with just half an hour gone.
Spurs went into the game looking to prove that they were not suffering from a European hangover following their Champions League exit in midweek and they got off to the worst possible start.
With just four minutes on the clock, Bournemouth should have been in the lead. Lys Mousset raced away clean and unselfishly fed Junior Stanislas, but as he looked to dink the ball over the onrushing Hugo Lloris he got too much on his effort and it game crashing back off the bar.
The winger made amends just three minutes later though as he gathered Adam Smith’s cross form the right at the far post and drilled low past Lloris to open the scoring and give the hosts a surprise lead.
Bournemouth were good value for their lead early on as they regularly isolated Davinson Sanchez by having Lewis Cook feed Callum Wilson with balls into the channels.
- Kane blow -
As the half went on though, Spurs grew into the game and they thought they were level when Harry Kane turned home Christian Eriksen’s cross with half an hour gone, only to be denied by the offside flag.
The disallowed goal was the least of Spurs’ worries though as Kane fell awkwardly putting the ball in the net and was forced off with a suspected ankle problem.
Despite the setback, Spurs were soon level. With 35 minutes gone Son Heung-Min set Serge Aurier away down he right and his early cross was perfect for Dele Alli to bundle home from close range.