Eriksen inspires Tottenham win

Christian Eriksen scored twice as he inspired Tottenham to a comfortable 3-0 win over Hull in the Premier League.

The White Hart Lane side dictated play for large spells against Mike Phelan’s team and went ahead through the Dane early in the first half.

While they took time to build on their slender lead, Tottenham eventually went further in front through Eriksen after the break before Victor Wanyama poked in a third.

With Liverpool winning at Middlesbrough, the Londoners are still outside the top four – but they do have a better points total than at this stage last season after making it four home wins in a row.

Tottenham’s overall form hasn’t been great lately and they went into this match having won just three of their last 13 games across the Premier League, the EFL Cup and the Champions League.

At White Hart Lane, however, they had won five of their last seven games and were heavy favourites to come out on top against a Hull side which had won only one away Premier League fixture.

The hosts, however, began brighter and Moussa Sissoko looked sharp on his recall to the side but saw his shot saved by David Marshall with comfort.

Tom Huddlestone then had to be alert to prevent Dele Alli from testing the Scotland goalkeeper after a teasing ball from the right by Eriksen.

Mauricio Pochettino’s men were starting to build rhythm and after 14 minutes they took a merited lead through a simple …

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