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him. And, moments later, it could have got worse as Lamela launched himself at McNeil and might have seen red instead of a yellow card.
Once again, Mourinho’s attacking options were limited as he initially relied on Alli, pushed up alongside Lamela and Steven Bergwijn.
There was no sympathy from Burnley, who almost scored again just before the break when Wood should have done better after a James Tarkowski knockdown from Westwood’s testing free-kick.
By then, Mourinho had seen enough and he brought on Lo Celso and Moura at the start of the second half in an attempt to spark a reaction.
Within three minutes, his prayers had been answered and his side were level.
Lo Celso was the architect of the recovery with a neat through pass to Lamela, who was brought down just inside the area by Ben
Mee. Up stepped Alli, who had been substituted before the abject shoot-out failure against the Canaries.
The England player maintained his composure to
BURNLEY TOTTENHAM 8 ............. Shots on Target ........... 2 4 ............. Shots off Target ........... 6 9 ............... Blocked Shots ............ 5 4 ..................... Corners ................... 5 16 ....................... Fouls ..................... 11 2 ..................... Offsides .................. 0 5 ................. Yellow Cards .............. 4 0 ................... Red Cards ................ 0 73.9 ..... Passing Success %...73.7 74 ................. Duels Won ............. 54 57.8 ........ Duel Success % ..... 42.2 22 .................... Tackles .................. 15 63.6 ........ Tackles Won % ...... 53.3 45.1 ........... Possession % ....... 54.9 52.4 ...... Territorial Adv % ...47.6 376 ............. Total Passes ......... 475 32 .............. Total Crosses ............ 19 169 ............... Lost Balls ............. 175 69 ................ Recoveries ............. 60 48.2 ........ 1st Half Poss % ....... 51.8 41.1 ......... 2nd Half Poss % ..... 58.9 send Nick Pope the wrong way to register his 50th Premier League goal. Suddenly this was a different Spurs, one which was imbued with fresh spirit and capable of asking a few questions of a Burnley side now not having things all their own way.
Lloris, though, still had to be alert to deny substitute Matej Vydra – while Dier did well to block the striker’s clean run on goal.