Mark Lawrenson states his prediction for Burnley v Tottenham

Good afternoon and welcome to Standard Sport’s live coverage of Burnley vs Tottenham.

Eric Dier’s first goal this season and his first since January 2016, finally marked the moment that Tottenham Hotspur entered the contest to win the Premier League title.

Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, manager Mauricio Pochettino said: “We are waiting for him and the results”.

Cape Town – Burnley boss Sean Dyche is hoping for a return to winning ways in his side’s home clash with Tottenham this weekend. It is always hard in the first game after worldwide duty, all the players arrive at different dates we were very professional.

Backed by their vocal home support, it was Burnley who had the first attempt of the game, Ashley Barnes getting on the end of and Andre Gray cross, his header lacking in the power required to beat Hugo Lloris.

For Burnley, the focus switches to Tuesday, when Stoke are the visitors to Turf Moor and we will have to show and terrible lot more than we did today if we are to get anything out of the game. Eleven minutes later, substitute, Heung Min Son, doubled Spurs’ lead and effectively ended the game in the process. We are very positive, he is very positive but we’ll see when he’s available again. So don’t go anywhere.

The goalkeeper was immediately called into action again, blocking a firm Ben Davies strike, and Sissoko lashed wide after 63 minutes after a scramble in the box as Spurs pressed.

Mauricio Pochettino, without leading marksman Harry Kane, still had the luxury of having Heung-Min Son on his bench and it didn’t take long for the South Korean to have an impact after replacing Janssen.

Pochettino appears to have stuck with the three-man defence which has served Spurs so well of late. We are fighting for the Premier League. Here Daichi team has earned 29 of his 32 points.

Burnley played the first half with extreme confidence, breaking down all of Tottenham’s attacks while bombarding them with constant balls into the box and breaking Tottenham’s flow.

But they rallied, aided by a controlled display from Wanyama’s replacement Mousa Dembele, and when Dier pounced on Jeff Hendrick’s error in the 66th minute it looked to be enough.

“Even if you look at Spurs, their away record is nowhere near their home record”. But, the Burnley had lost their three games and had two draws against to Sunderland and Hull City, both of these two also stayed at the bottom of this Premier League at present.