Stoke City 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur: Eriksen brace locks up three points on the road
It wasn’t pretty, but Spurs get all three points. Tottenham Hotspur continued their push for a third straight season of Champions League football on Saturday with a 2-1 victory over Stoke City in the West Midlands. The match was far from pretty and was full of fouls and stoppages in play, but ultimately Spurs picked up three points to go one step closer to locking up Top Four.
The first twenty minutes were fairly uneventful with both teams trading possession and mustering a couple of half-chances that resulted in nothing. The chippiness of the match, as usually is the case with Stoke, rose with every foul and dangerous play. Somehow there were no bookings in all of this.
Spurs first big chance came on a lovely volley pass by Dele to f...