Tottenham's win at Burnley on Saturday, coupled with Chelsea's home defeat to Crystal Palace, moved Spurs to within seven points of the league leaders, who face Manchester City in midweek, while Tottenham travel to Swansea.
Mauricio Pochettino has warned Chelsea that his Tottenham side are ready to capitalise on any more slips from the Premier League leaders.
After Harry Winks had been stretchered off with a worrying injury at half-time, Eric Dier and substitute Heung-Min Son scored in the space of 11 second-half minutes to prevent Burnley from getting the point they needed to equal their highest ever Premier League haul. While that result combined with success at Burnley saw the chasm between first and second place reduce to seven points, Pochettino insisted that his side remain some way off the title pace.
"Anything can happen, above all in England", he said. We showed great maturity in our performance in the second half because we stayed calm, even with the first-half incidents.
"Nothing is impossible in football and that is our idea, our philosophy".
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"It's now seven points, it's completely different to 10", he said. We reduced it by three points, a lot of work to do.
Pochettino's squad may well be stretched to its limits in upcoming games and the Argentine coach says he must manage his players' workload carefully.
Tottenham have had several players recognised by Gazzetta so far this season, and Burnley's Michael Keane and Tom Heaton have found their way in a few times. It's true that in football it's important to learn from the good and the bad experiences. "It depends on whether Chelsea fail and the moment they do, if we do our job, we can be there at the end of the season trying to fight for the title".
'It's important for us to be there if Chelsea fade. Dier was proverbially "breaking" Twitter today due to his go-ahead, and eventually game-winning goal, but the real excitement on Saturday is over renewed hope and revitalized optimism for the Premier League title race. We certainly don't think we're in easy street.
Tottenham Hotspur will still be without top striker Harry Kane as he recovers from an ankle injury, but there's a chance, albeit a slim one, that left back Danny Rose and attacker Erik Lamela can be available this weekend.
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