Spurs move up to fourth after Porro’s strike seals win over Nottingham Forest

As much as Ange Postecoglou insists that neither is Champions League qualification imperative nor is it the limit of his ambition, he will be hard pressed to find a Tottenham supporter not significantly heartened by their elevated league position after this win against

But with the visitors ruing the missed chance to go ahead, Tottenham settled matters soon after half-time through a couple of thunderbolts from the unlikely figures of Micky van de Ven and Pedro Porro. His 124-day stint at the helm set an unwanted record as the shortest of any permanent Tottenham mana­ger; whether that reign proves to be a small blot on his managerial career or a harsh exposure of his limitations might well be affected by whether he can maintain Forest’s– a continuation of a mini‑resurgence since Forest were deducted four points for breaching Premier League finance regulations – the visitors came close to quickly resuming that upturn with Murillo almost scoring what...

Recent games have exhibited the Postecoglou blueprint in its ideal form: an unceasingly high workrate combined with two rapid, headstrong wingers in the form of Timo Werner and ­Brennan Johnson, whose burgeoning ­partnership on either flank has been pivotal to much of Spurs’ ­attacking threat. So, too, for Tottenham’s opener, when the ball was swiftly worked wide to Werner, whose low cross across the six-yard box was turned in by Murillo’s outstretched boot.

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