Lively Son on song again for Spurs as hosts edge Crystal Palace

The Frenchman was finally beaten just before the break, but luckily the post was to his rescue. Yohan Cabaye was the man with the wonderful effort from an angle.

Son, who was lively all day, nearly caught out McCarthy early into the second-half, as the keeper perhaps too casually tried to clear a back-pass that hit the South Korean.

Lloris brilliantly saved a free-kick in the first-half, and McCarthy followed suit in the second, as he palmed over a curling shot from Lamela.

Son started to really test the visitors from the right hand side now, and this time he forced another great save from McCarthy, with Ben Davies eventually heading in. But the young English stopper was sparred as Kane was offside.

Both keepers were superb throughout the match, but Lloris produced perhaps the best of the day after an hour, again off Sako’s shot. The highly-rated Frenchman tipped onto the post from the Mali attacker, who stuck well from an angle.

Son was finally the man to break the deadlock and the wall that is McCarthy just minutes later, and one that he should’ve perhaps saved, as the South Korean guided the ball through his legs and into the back of the net.

Alli was keen to get in on the act too in the hope of adding to his strike against Leicester City, as he went for goal rather than passing it, but was just wide.

Despite the Eagles’ best attempts to find a late leveller, Spurs held on thanks to Son’s strike in the 68th minute. Mauricio Pochettino will have Lloris much to thank as well, though, after some match-winning saves to help ensure a third-successive clean sheet.

The result hands Tottenham their second league win of the season and moves them all the way up from 16th place to within just one point of the top four (level with Palace).