Nine-man Tottenham undone at the last as Aké snatches win for Bournemouth

Tottenham are not making things easy in their quest for a top four Premier League finish. On a madcap afternoon at Bournemouth, they played for 42 minutes with nine men, after seeing Son Heung-min and the substitute Juan Foyth sent off, while they were fortunate not to lose Eric Dier to another red card. Their rap sheet also featured five yellow cards.

Mauricio Pochettino’s depleted team clung on until stoppage-time and it had to be said that Bournemouth were strangely toothless opponents. But the home team, who have struggled so sorely at home of late, found the killer blow when Nathan Aké showed more desire than anybody around him to head from Ryan Fraser’s corner.

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