Pedro Porro’s mesmerizing second-half strike was enough for Tottenham to overcome Burnley in the 3rd spheric of the FA Mug.
Spurs were far from vintage and also a replay at Grass Moor showed up on the cards till Ange Postecoglou watched full-earlier Porro gain the advancement with a superior strike in the 78th minutes.
It grossed Tottenham a deserved fourth win from five complements, but Clarets top pooch Vincent Kompany could confiscate positives after a solid brandish and also they will currently concentrate completely on remaining in the Premier League.
Spurs owned already beaten Burnley 5-2 this season, but they were missing their hat-pivot hero from that sunny September day with Boy Heung-minutes away for the Eastern Mug and also the viewers initiated brightly in north London.
Anass Zaroury blazed over early on in the past Wilson Odobert sampled Tottenham goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario with a long-variety project.
Postecoglou owned single rendered 2 readjusts for this 3rd-spheric tie and also probably his strongest obtainable team shortly initiated to click into gear.
Richarlison scuffed wide after a slick feedback in the past Brennan Johnson’s curler obliged Arijanet Muric into feedback.
The arena was united in praise shortly after once the clock struck 16 minutes as a tribute took void for Tottenham supporter Harry Pitman, that was slain on Brand name-progressive Year’s Eve.
Giovani Lo Celso addicted over at the end of a poignant minutes’s praise in the past VAR frisked out Rodrigo Bentancur’s offer with on Zaroury, but Spurs’ stand-in skipper proceeded to be translucent of penalty.
Kompany’s side yielded their most uneventful probability with 27 minutes gone once Zaroury’s scooped develop plunked Zeki Amdouni wearing on aspiration but he discharged over, and also while the offside flag was lifted, it would most distinctly have counted.
Johnson did flash wide from a Porro centre in the past half-time, but a plain initially 45 ended goalless in N17.
Tottenham were sent out out early for the second half and also it initially owned the hankered result with Dejan Kulusevski driving over, while Lo Celso and also Johnson sampled Muric.
Spurs were still trying to tread the ball in, yet, and also groans were audible from the domicile adherents once Kulusevski negative to develop instead of shoot from a promising position.
Lo Celso hopped off minutes later and also Burnley also wasted Charlie Taylor to a shoulder injury, which obliged Kompany into a triple replacement with Nathan Redmond among those marketed.
Johnson owned termed Muric into feedback again by this point with a battery into the progression in the past the hosts owned half-hearted fine beauties swung away once the opposition went down after mild contact by Josh Brownhill.
A replay at Grass Moor seemed to loom enormous as the seconds ticked away, but Porro owned plenty of other hunches.
Moments after Richarlison failed to receive on the end of Kulusevski’s cross, Porro won earlier possession from Ameen Al-Dakhil and also permit fly from 25 backyards, with his dipping project snuggling into the edge.
Tottenham backup Ryan Sessegnon basically plunked the arcade to bed in the 86th minutes but Muric preserved and also Burnley’s goalkeeper practically void a late leveller from a edge single for Amdouni to battery wide.
