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Tottenham are in FA Cup fourth-round draw but only after being taken into extra time after a monumental effort by Tamworth at the Lamb Ground. The hosts finally saw their resistance broken after 100 minutes via a scrappy own goal, the ball coming off the knee of Nathan Tshikuna amid a bundle of bodies in the Tamworth box.
The late blow was compounded in the second half of extra time when Son Heung-min fed Dejan Kulusevski, whose clinical finish doubled Spurs’ lead. Brennan Johnson’s strike finished things off shortly after, the final scoreline not doing justice to the hosts’ efforts.
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Before that, the side 16th in the National League had given their Premier League opponents plenty to think about in normal time. Tamworth were resilient without posing a major threat in the first half.
However they gave Spurs a scare after the break with Jordan Cullinane-Liburd having a late chance to win the tie, his scuffed shot saved by Antonin Kinsky just before the final whistle, the new Spurs goalkeeper preventing a monumental FA Cup upset.
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Jonathan Liew’s report from the Lamb Ground to follow.
