Burnley vs Tottenham final score: Clarets secure massive win for relegation fight

Burnley vs Tottenham: Spurs followed up their win over Manchester City with a 1-0 defeat at Turf Moor on Wednesday, as the Clarets made another giant step toward surviving relegation.

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Ben Mee scored the game’s only goal in the 71st minute, and they were unfortunate to have left it that late after creating and narrowly missing a handful of high-quality chances up until that point. Tottenham were slow out of the starting blocks and lacked the final-third ruthless they displayed over the weekend.

The defeat leaves Spurs 8th in the Premier League table, seven points back of 4th-place Manchester United, now with just two games in hand.

Final score: Burnley 1, Tottenham 0

Goal scorers: Burnley (Mee 71′), Tottenham (None)

Shots: Burnley 15, Tottenham 12

Shots on target: Burnley 4, Tottenham 2

Possession: Burnley 34%, Tottenham 66%

1. Spurs playing to their competition, or struggling with style: On the weekend, Tottenham looked every bit Manchester City’s equals, with a carefully crafted, cautious approach that saw them soak up pressure very well and spring dangerous counter-attacks whenever they won the ball back. Against Burnley, though, the onus to possess the ball and break down the deep-defending side was squarely on Tottenham, and there wasn’t a player in white (save for Harry Kane) who didn’t shrink in the face of that challenge in the first half. Burnley pressed and feverishly battled for the ball just as Spurs did on Saturday, and they were the dominant side for 45 minutes.

2. Second half wide open, even until Burnley score: Tottenham were massively improved in Burnley’s half of the field to begin the second half, with Kane pulling the strings upon dropping into midfield and Dejan