Tottenham v Burnley: Premier League – live!

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41 min: Daniel McKillop, via emails, adds: “The knives are out on Twitter for Dyche, but come on! Gareth Bale likely makes as much per week as Burnley’s starting eleven combined, so this really shouldn’t be so surprising. Dyche is the Premier League’s MacGyver, trying to keep his team up with two pieces of gum and some string.”

40 min: “Who says there is no reason to watch the rest of this match,” Mary Waltz writes. “Will Roy Keane back down or will he double down? Will Redknapp challenge Roy to meet him outside for a dust up? The tension is rising.”

Spot on, Mary. I can’t wait for half time! I really can’t!

35 min: Aurier embarks on a marauding run from right back, exchanging a one-two with Bale. He sprints into the danger zone, just outside the box, and slides a pass to Moura. Moura turns on the edge of the area and shoots but it’s a horribly miscued effort. Still, good energy and drive from Aurier. Burnley’s problems aren’t getting any easier to solve.

Yash Gupta emails: “Roy Keane was spot on with his point about the quality of the squad and about José Mourinho. If there is a manager in the world that can sort the defence out, its José and yet after 14 months, he got no clue of how to do it with this current lot then something is wrong with the squad. Attacking wise questions can be asked about Mourinho but this season City showed how to do things properly with proper defence and by the way, it was the defence that was the reason for Pochettino’s sacking more than anything else.”

27 min: Burnley, for the first time, build a spell of possession in the final third of the pitch. Vydra skips along outside the middle of the penalty area, works the ball back to the left, and a deep cross is then switched back to Lowton on the right, who tries what is either an attempt to recreate Marco van Basten’s 1988 masterpiece volley, or a miscued cross. Either way it goes out for a goal kick.

24 min: Burnley attack down the left. Westwood finds an on-rushing Taylor. Taylor sends a pass inside to Vydra, who has a glimpse of goal, but he attempts an awkward shot with the outside of his right boot that rolls harmlessly wide. We are seeing how important the absent Wood and Barnes are to Burnley, so far.

20 min: Spurs enjoy more possession on the front foot. Bale clips a nice pass over to Reguilón. The ball is worked back to Ndombele, who plays a cross back to the far post looking for Bale. Football is breaking out at Tottenham Stadium and Bale in particular is calling the shots. Dyche wanted a strong physical performance from his team, and so far, he will be bitterly disappointed with what he’s seen.

17 min: Burnley stem the bleeding and win a corner. But nothing comes of it. In the Sky studio, Roy Keane is hoping Spurs aren’t 8-0 up at half-time, given the way he tore into the quality of their squad pre-match.

11 min: Another Spurs attack – they are streaming forward at every opportunity and their dynamic running is making it look like there are more of them on the pitch than the Burnley players. Bale cuts a ball back from the byline but there is no one there to meet it.

10 min: Spurs go route one, down the middle, with a long ball by Alderweireld. Son takes the ball down effortlessly and plays in Moura who is sprinting into a central area. A lovely bit of skill (this time) takes Moura past his marker and into the area and he fires a shot straight at Pope from point-blank range. That was a good, incisive move by Tottenham but Moura did not apply the finish it deserved. Still, they are dominating Burnley at this moment.

8 min: Burnley’s turn to threaten: Rodriguez has the sniff of a chance to the left of goal, just outside the six-yard box, and Sanchez does well to slide in and snuff out his chance to shoot.

5 min: Spurs launch another promising attack, and Moura gets himself in a hilarious muddle and falls over with options to left and right. A few seconds later, Kane then flashes a right-footed shot fractionally wide from just outside the penalty area. Spurs are all over Burnley, who look seriously alarmed by the concession of that soft early goal.

KEANE v REDKNAPP. This, honestly, should have been pay-per-view:

I honestly don’t want the game to start. Keane and Redknapp just went mad at each other. I mean properly shouting the studio down (even if Keane is the only one in the studio and Redknapp is pitchside). It was great. Anyway, five mins to kick-off!

“If this carries on their main man, Kane, won’t want to be there at the end of the season,” chips in Souness.

If Jamie Redknapp and Roy Keane were in the same room, they would have come to blows by now. They’ve just had a very entertaining falling out about the quality of Tottenham’s team. Redknapp said that there are a lot of internationals. Keane said ‘if you can trap a ball these days you can be an international.”

The shouting is continuing.

Roy Keane assesses the chances of Dyche’s men: “Burnley have had no game midweek, they have to be at it, and they will test Spurs on the physical side of things. Technically, they’re up against it.”

He’s warming up now, the self-confessed boyhood Spurs fan: “Tottenham have got so many average players. We talk about the pressure they are under to get in the top four and all that carry-on. Kane and Son, take them out, and Spurs are an average Premiership team. I’m being polite.”

Have you seen Roy Keane’s Instagram, by the way? If you haven’t then you probably need to.

Dyche has a chat with Sky Sports: “I think there’s been a good attitude towards the performances and that’s been difficult, with losing so many players through injury. We are beginning to get people back but we’ve got another three-game week so we’ve got to be careful with Woody [Chris Wood] and Dale Stephens just coming back out of injury … I’m expecting a better physical performance today, at least.

“They may not be where they want to be [in the league] but they’re a good outfit. We’ve got to deliver a performance.”

Mourinho speaks: “We want to win. That’s the main objective. We want to win and we believe these players are ready for it … we think we are going to play against a team that defends very well – they can press high, but also defend low, and Gareth is a player with quality to help us. So we decided to play with [Erik] Lamela in the Europa League and rest Gareth for this match.”

Arsenal are currently beating Leicester 3-1, having come from a goal behind. Daniel Harris is live blogging that one, right here:

We are half an hour away from kick-off, and Graeme Souness and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink are having a little warm-up on Sky Sports by discussing Timo Werner of Chelsea before their seismic Super Sunday clash against Manchester United. Souness says it’s Werner’s fault that Frank Lampard was sacked because he missed a lot of chances.

“If he’d scored a fraction of the gilt-edged changed he’d had, Frank would still be in the job, and that’s the price of management at Chelsea,” says Souness.

Hasselbaink isn’t having it: “I just think the level is higher [than the Bundesliga], the keepers are better, the defenders are better … the pressure is there, whatever you say … the pressure is higher, the demands are higher.”

OK, that’s the end of the Chelsea news section.

Our chief football correspondent, David Hytner, had a good chat with Tanguy Ndombele about his early struggles at Spurs, that infamous fitness session in the park with Mourinho in the first Covid-19 lockdown, and why he is starting to produce some fine form:

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