Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea: Premier League – as it happened

That’s all for today. David Hytner’s report is below, and we’ll be back with more hot liveblog action soon. Goodnight.

Chelsea reaction

Cole Palmer has scored 12 out of 12 penalties in the Premier League, the most for anybody with a 100 per cent record. His kindred spirit Matt Le Tissier scored something like 24 out or 25 in the Premier League and 47 out of 48 overall.

The Premier League table

These are the ages of Chelsea’s starting XI today: 27, 23, 23, 21, 26, 20, 23, 24, 22, 24, 23.

The average age of the side is around 23.4. There’s no precedent in the Premier League era for such a young team winning the league. Whatever happens this season – and the only thing we should rule out at this stage is the Carabao Cup – the future looks so bright.

Ange Postecoglou walks on the field to console his players, sadness and confusion all over his face. For Chelsea there is only joy and maybe a bit of disbelief that they are serious title contenders. I think we can say that now.

Full time: Tottenham 3-4 Chelsea

90+9 min Werner’s cross is just too heavy for Son, sliding in at the far post. Sanchez is booked for delaying the goalkick.

Maddison took a short corner on the left, danced round the back and picked out Son with a careful pass. He slid the ball through the crowd and into the net.

GOAL! Spurs 3-4 Chelsea (Son 90+7)

90+6 min Free-kick to Spurs 22 yards out. Porro smacks it into the wall, then volleys the rebound fractionally wide. Sanchez had it covered I think. It must have taken a touch because a corner has been awarded.

90+4 min Werner slips a really clever pass through to Son, whose shot is smothered by the outrushing Sanchez. Good save.

90+2 min Chelsea have now scored 23 goals in eight league games away from home, including nine this week: 6-2, 1-0, 3-0, 1-2, 1-1, 2-1, 5-1, 4-2.

90 min Seven minutes of added time.

90 min: Chelsea substitutions Renato Veiga and Joao Felix replace Marc Cucurella and Cole Palmer, who scored two goals apiece. Palmer’s were for Chelsea.

89 min “And to think the biggest reason the game stayed close for this long is that Marc Cucurella chose his boots poorly,” honks Eric Peterson.

88 min Jamie Carragher is now putting the boot in on Ange Postecoglou: “absolute rubbish”, etc. I think he’s going over the top – ask Nani – but his point about Big Ange’s inflexibility is hard to dispute. Though this is a far better team, their peculiar vulnerability evokes the Ossie Ardiles side of 1994-95.

88 min For all the gloom around Spurs, plenty of it justified, the margins remain pretty fine. It’s only 20 minutes ago that Son Heung-min missed a one-on-one to put them 3-2 ahead.

86 min: Chelsea substitution Noni Madueke replaces the excellent Pedro Neto.

85 min Beto is booked for a foul on Udogie. There was something going on with Enzo Fernandez after the goal; I’m not sure what it was but a few of his teammates dragged him away.

84 min What a joy Cole Palmer is, a 1970s maverick with the substance of a Ballon d’Or contender.

GOAL! Tottenham 2-4 Chelsea (Palmer 84 pen)

83 min: Penalty to Chelsea! Chelsea break three on two from a Spurs corner. Sancho slows down and eventually plays the ball to Palmer, who is going nowhere when Sarr shoves him over from behind. That’s awful defending.

81 min If Spurs lose it’ll be their seventh defeat in 15 league games. Yet they have also won 7-0 in Manchester and have the fourth best goal difference in the league. We can’t ignore the injuries either. I think they’d be mad to get rid of Ange Postecoglou, but I might be in the minority.

79 min: Triple substitution for Spurs James Maddison, Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall replace Van de Ven, Yves Bissouma and Dejan Kulusevski.

78 min I may have jumped the gun on Van de Ven, who is being treated as if for cramp rather than a hamstring tear. Either way he’s coming off.

78 min “Don’t know if you caught that amazing moment in Fernandez’s celebration where he tries to take his shirt off and Jackson drags it back down again,” says Edan Tal. “Surprised that doesn’t happen more!”

Heh, I missed that. Great stuff.

77 min This is turning into an absolute nightmare for Spurs. Micky van de Ven has suffered a recurrence of his hamstring injury, and Sancho almost makes it 4-2 with a shot that is deflected behind by Pedro Porro.

76 min: Chelsea substitution Christopher Nkunku replaces Nicolas Jackson.

Palmer cut inside from the right, wiggled his hips to beat a couple of players and hit a shot that deflected across the penalty area. Fernandez ran onto the bouncing ball, 12 yards out, and slashed it past Forster with his left foot. That’s a brilliant finish from a player who has becoming a goals and assists monster in recent weeks.

GOAL! Tottenham 2-3 Chelsea (Fernandez 73)

72 min Porro’s clipped free-kick is headed wide of the far post by the stretching Van de Ven. The Chelsea defence did well to ensure he couldn’t get a clear run at the ball.

71 min That chance seems to have woken Spurs up, both the players and the fans. Kulusevski is fouled just outside the area on the right by Badiashile. This is an opportunity…

68 min: What a chance for Son! Solanke screws a pass in behind towards Udogie, palpably offside. Everyone stops except Son, who zooms through to collect the ball, move through on goal and curl just wide of the far post.

Chelsea would have gone mad had that gone in, although I’m pretty sure the goal would have stood because Udogie didn’t touch the ball. For a finisher of Son’s class it was a very good chance.

66 min In the second half Chelsea have had 73 per cent possession and five shots to Spurs’ none.

63 min There’s no doubt Chelsea deserve that goal, having been much the better team since half-time. Spurs, who lost at Brighton from 2-0 up, will now be fearing the worst. In hindsight I’d have brought on Maddison rather than Werner to provide some composure in possession.

Forster dived to his left, Palmer curled the ball into the other corner at pace. Even if Forster had gone the right way he’d have struggled to save that.

What a game!