Any win, even the scrappiest or most fortunate, was enough for Tottenham here. To prove that point the roar after a tense four minutes of added time had concluded was similar to the noise that greeted the end of the north London derby on Thursday.
An impressive Burnley had pushed them all the way: this was an uncertain, increasingly leggy performance from Spurs but it puts them in the driving seat for fourth place, at least until Arsenal have completed an outwardly unappetising assignment at Newcastle on Monday night.
