Harry Kane delivers again but Dele Alli invites more diving fury

Crystal Palace 0 - Tottenham 1: Harry Kane headed a late winner and Dele Alli found himself at the centre of another diving controversy. There was a distinct sense it was business as usual for Tottenham Hotspur at Selhurst Park as Mauricio Pochettino’s side moved into the top four.

It took Kane’s 89th-minute header to finally break a Crystal Palace resistance that had threatened to stifle Spurs’ efforts to increase the pressure on Chelsea who started the day in fourth place. Before the striker’s 35th goal of the season, however, it seemed Pochettino’s side would be forced to reflect on a frustrating afternoon when they had failed to convert almost total dominance into goals and one in which Alli had been accused of going to ground too easily.

Pochettino, the Spurs manager, focused on his side’s persistence that was eventually rewarded when Kane lost marker Damien Delaney, introduced as a substitute just four minutes earlier, to meet Christian Eriksen’s corner.