Tottenham Hotspur returned to winning ways in the Premier League in emphatic style by seeing off Stoke City 5-1 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
The Lilywhites ran riot in the second half with four goals, two of which were claimed by leading scorer Harry Kane to take his league tally for the year to 33 goals.
Previously winless in four top-flight outings, Spurs are now back on track and find themselves one point adrift of Liverpool in fourth place.
The opening goal did have more than slice of luck to it, however, as Son’s cross from the left hit Kurt Zouma and then an unfortunate Shawcross on its way past Butland.
From that point on it was a question of whether the Lilywhites would add to their scoring before the break, with both Son and Kane wasting one-on-one opportunities – the South Korean being denied down low and his teammate missing the target entirely.
Son tucked the ball past Butland seven minutes after the restart to kickstart Tottenham’s afternoon, however, having once again been played clean through by a Dele Alli pass.
Stoke barely had a chance to settle before Kane headed home from a Ben Davies cross for number three, and the Englishman doubled his personal tally shortly after the hour mark with an instinctive first-time finish from the edge of the box.
Had things stayed the same, Spurs would have become the first English team to beat the same opponents 4-0 in four-successive matches, but Eriksen put an end to that by firing across goal and into the net at the end of a counter for number five.
There was to be some respite for the hapless visitors, though, thanks to a Shawcross header at the back post to reduce the arrears slightly after Lloris failed to claim the ball.
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