Christian Eriksen cracker keeps title race on the boil

Crystal Palace 0 Spurs 1: The Premier League title race is still alive, as Christian Eriksen struck a spectacular late winner to extend Tottenham’s winning run to eight league games and closed the gap to Chelsea to four points once again.

Mauricio Pochettino’s men are nothing if not determined, and having seen Chelsea retake a seven-point lead the night before with victory over Southampton, responded in kind with a dogged victory over a Palace side that are still not certain of safety.

It was a must-win game for Spurs, who started to crumble at this stage of the season last year as they tried to make up ground on Leicester City, but the message from the Spurs camp and their noisy supporters was loud and clear “Chelsea – we are coming for you.” The question beforehand was how Spurs would react after their FA Cup semi-final defeat by the Blues at the weekend, and there looked to be some heavy legs if not heavy hearts in their ranks.