Broja’s strike of luck can be catalyst for Pochettino’s Chelsea to kick on

Armando Broja scores – with some help from Tim Ream – to double Chelsea’s lead at Fulham. Photograph: Jacques Feeney/Offside/Getty Images

It is a well-established part of the Mauricio Pochettino managerial story: young academy centre-forward scores deflected goal in must-win game to offer ignition point.

Pochettino cannot forget how everything changed for him at Tottenham after a difficult first few months in 2014 when Harry Kane, on as a substitute at Aston Villa, watched a stoppage-time free-kick go in off the defensive wall for a 2-1 victory.