Southampton 1-4 Tottenham: Spurs come from behind to win

However, Spurs soon gained a foothold on the game, and over turned the deficit either side of half time courtesy of goals either side of half time from Dele Alli and Harry Kane.

Spurs were then awarded a penalty in the 57th minute when Alli was brought down by Nathan Redmond, who was shown a straight red card.

‘It was a little bit hard but as the game went on I was confident. “I’ll be thinking about that one tonight”.

The 23-year-old still scored in the match, for his first successful try in four games.

Southampton’s meeting with West Brom is on New Years Eve at 3pm.

Speaking afterwards on Kane’s miss Alli said: “I’ve heard “H” talk about National Football League so if there are any coaches watching then they’ll be looking at him for a kicker!” he told Spurs TV. “It was hard to see if it was a penalty or not, but it was a very fair result“.

Dele Alli, whose two goals included a classy equaliser at St Mary’s, praised his side for not panicking after going down to Virgil van Dijk’s early header. However, Kane skied the spot kick.

“It was not a key action to change the game because in that moment we dominated the game, created a lot of chances”, Pochettino said.

VINCENT WANYAMA’s first game back at St.Mary’s since his £11.5million summer move to Spurs could hardly have got off to a worse start. In the second half we were much better.

Over recent transfer windows, leading Premier League clubs have scrambled for the services of some of Southampton’s rising stars.

“I think it’s important our fans keep all of their support for their players and the team, to give us a strong spirit to try to make a good result“, he said.