Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur secured a vital victory to move up the Premier League table with an entertaining 3-2 victory at Villa Park.
Relegation threatened Aston Villa put up an entertaining display in front of their home crowd and they were rewarded early courtesy of an own goal from Spurs defender, Toby Alderweireld.
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However, the Belgian made up for his error by converting from a corner kick.
Spurs went into the break out the lead courtesy of Son’s goal from a missed penalty.
Villa’s defender, Engels scored from a corner to score what would have earned a point for his team.
However, Son scored a late goal to seal victory for the London side.
