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Spurs moved above their rivals to third place with a victory

Mauricio Pochettino mastered Tottenham's impressive 3-1 victory at Chelsea on Saturday night and the panel of the Sunday supplement dissected how the Argentinian got the best of his Italian counterpart.

Tottenham moved above Chelsea to third place in the Premier League after inflicting a first league defeat of the season on their rivals in London.

The home team drove an early two-goal lead after attacking Dele Alli and Harry Kane before Heung-min Son's excellent solo goal sealed the victory nine minutes after the break.

According to Matt Law, however, it was the tactic of the Spurs manager who was ultimately the key to victory at home football.

"I was very impressed with the way Pochettino set up Tottenham, he defeated Sarri with his tactics," the Daily Telegraph & # 39; s football news correspondent told it Sunday supplement.

"Son was an interesting selection, they had an agreement with South Korea that he would not play an international role in the last break, so he was one of their few top players who had not left.

"So he played him and you could tell the energy he had, because many people had expected Erik Lamela to start such a game and that paid off.

"Harry Winks on the bench, Juan Foyt instead of Jan Vertonghen – he could have brought Vertonghen back immediately." He put Alli on Jorginho and almost a man sometimes marked him and that just worked amazingly.

"They often let the ball go to N & # 39; Golo Kante when Chelsea attacked and it kept popping because his breakdown was probably his weakness and they put it on track.

"And I just thought that Pochettino had done everything right and that Sarri was wrong."

Meanwhile, Saturday's dominant display also confirmed that the club in North London – now only five points behind Manchester City's leaders – is really going under Pochettino.

"Pochettino has completely changed the whole club, which is worth much more than winning a trophy," said Law, an opinion with which Oliver Holt agreed.

"Tottenham was just super and on a different level than Chelsea and this was a team that came into the game undefeated", said the Mail on Sunday chef sports writer.

"They seem to take effect and that was probably the best Premier League performance I have seen this season."