Tottenham 2-3 Bournemouth: Dango Ouattara scores in the 95TH MINUTE to earn huge win for Cherries

There were songs of love and devotion, pining for the magic of Mauricio Pochettino to come back and save them and songs of protest, demanding Daniel Levy get out of this neighbourhood as Tottenham crashed to defeat just as they seemed to have salvaged a point.

But the songs of defiance in the away end rang the longest and loudest as Bournemouth won for the first time ever at Spurs and added three precious points to their survival battle, after a frenzied closing sequence to a breathless contest.

Cherries substitute Dango Ouattara settled it with the fifth goal of the game in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

Tottenham had equalised in the 88th minute, a goal by Arnaut Danjuma against his former club, and were hurling everything forward in search of the winner when the visitors broke clear.

Dominic Solanke, who made the first and scored the second for Gary O’Neil’s side and was excellent, shrugged off Pedro Porro and squared for Ouattara who held his nerve and picked his spot, guiding a low shot past Hugo Lloris. All those in Bournemouth red-and-black erupted.

Star substitute Dango Ouattara (left) netted a 95th minute winner for the travelling Cherries

With four wins from their previous eight games, Bournemouth arrived in Tottenham where they had never won with the look of a team developing the necessary stomach for a fight. They also arrived later than planned, forcing the kick-off back by quarter of an hour, and they started slowly, inviting an early spell of pressure from the home team.

The visitors were careless with possession at the back but recovered their mistakes with blocks and saves until Son found the net in the 14th minute. Clement Lenglet clipped a long pass to Ivan Perisic, who drove into the space behind the Bournemouth back line and showed enough presence of mind to find Son on his shoulder, rather than flash the ball square.

Son swept a first-time finish into the net with the inside of his left boot, his eight Premier League goal of the season converted in front of his new South Korea boss Jurgen Klinsmann.

Spurs threatened the stretch ahead. Harry Kane fired wide from 20 yards and Neto made saves, First to foil Son on the run, jinking past Chris Mepham after a pass by Oliver Skipp. Then, to block an effort by Kane after a pass threaded through a crowded box by Son.

Arnaut Danjuma thought he had rescued a point for Tottenham with an 88th minute equaliser

Matias Vina cancelled out the hosts’ early opener, levelling the scoreboard in the 38th minute

O’Neil had tweaked his system to match Tottenham’s back three and for a time the home team took advantage of the spaces behind the wing-backs but the visitors settled into a happier rhythm after they conceded.

Perhaps the home side helped them by relaxing intensity levels, slipping into autopilot. Ryan Christie fired a warning with a chance to level on the break and Marcus Tavernier drew a save from Hugo Lloris with a curler from 20 yards.

Lenglet was hurt making an innocuous challenge in midfield and made way for Davinson Sanchez. Stellini shuffled Cristian Romero from the right to the left of his back three and soon conceded an equaliser from the flank now patrolled in casual fashion by Sanchez and Pedro Porro.

Matias Vina pounced to steal the ball from Porro and continuing his forward run. Philip Billing found Dominic Solanke and his pass found Vina, who scored his first for the club, a clipped finish over the dive of Lloris.

Neto saved a shot through a crowd by Son but Bournemouth were the better team as the first half closed, passing the ball with crispness and confidence as fans in the away end sang about staying up.

Christie was booked for dive, trying too hard to find contact under a challenge from Romero. Then they lost Vina to injury before taking the lead six minutes into the second half. Tavernier on the run caused Spurs to panic in defence and a hapless intervention by Sanchez nudged the ball perfectly into the path of Solanke, who applied a clinical finish to beat Lloris.

Son Heung-min performs his trademark celebration after firing Spurs ahead in the early stages

Dominic Solanke put relegation-threatened Bournemouth in front early in the second half

Stellini’s search for a way back into the game meant further embarrassment for Sanchez, replaced by Arnaut Danjuma as Tottenham switched to a back four. His team were one up when he came on and 2-1 down as he left. The home crowd cheered his exit.

Skipp was sacrificed for Richarlison and Spurs ended the game with five strikers on the pitch and Kane operating from central midfield.

Richarlison had a goal ruled out for offside and Bournemouth resisted until the 88th minute when Danjuma levelled. A Perisic long throw off glanced off the head of Mepham to Danjuma, whose fierce left footer took a slight deflection and fizzed inside post.

There was a delay to decide if Kane, clearly offside, is in the goalkeeper’s eye line before the goal was given and then a golden chance for Richarlison, who missed the target with a free header at the back post before Ouattara’s winning contribution.