Preston v Tottenham: FA Cup fourth round – as it happened

FA Cup fourth round: Son scored a brace while Arnaut Danjuma got off the mark on his Spurts debut on an otherwise wet and dreary evening in Lancashire. Jamie Jackson reports from Deepdale …

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Son speaks: “It’s always hard in the FA Cup, especially when you play away from home,” he tells the BBC. “It’s always tough and I think in the first half we struggled a little bit because they were defending really, really deep. I’m glad I could help the team and we can now look forward to the next round.

“I needecd the goals for my confidence and just for playing games. They’re the positions I like to shoot from and in the first half I had two chances but the goalkeeper made good saves. I’m very, very happy.”

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeep! Referee Peter Bankes blows the final whistle and Tottenham Hotspur advance to the fifth round. It wasn’t much of a game and the first half was particularly dreary, but two moments of second-half class from Heung-min Son put the game beyond Preston before Arnaut Danjuma came off the bench to score on his debut. Left on the bench for the duration of the game, Harry Kane will have to wait a little while longer to break the great Jimmy Greaves’ Tottenham scoring record.

90+3 min: Tottenham corner. Perisic raises his left hand to signal his intention to whip the ball to the near post. He does exactly that but there’s nobody in a SPurs shirt there to get a flick.

90+2 min: There’s a break in play as a pitch invader is apprehended by stewards.

90 min: Preston substitution: local 18-year-old Finlay Cross-Adair comes on for Ched Evans.

A debut goal for Arnaut Danjuma! The Dutch striker scuffs home from close range to find the bottom corner after connecting with a low Dejan Kulusevski cross from the right. His shot wasn’t the cleanest but he won’t care.

85 min: Son looks in a world of (physical) pain as he takes his place on the Spurs bench. If he shipped a knock, I didn’t notice.

85 min: Tottenham substitution: Bryan Gil on for Son.

84 min: Freddie Woodman is quick off his line to collect an Ivan Perisic cross.

81 min: Two moments of class from Son Heung-min separate the sides and have lit up an otherwise fairly dreary game at Deepdale. Does the brace mark a return to form for the likeable South Korean, or will it be something of a false dawn like his hat-trick against Leicester in mid-September? If he wants to get another match-ball to take home, he’ll need to move quickly as he’s about to be substituted.

79 min: Preston corner. Fraser Forster claims the high inswinger confidently under pressure from Tom Cannon, who has positioned himself in close proximity to the Tottenham’s goalkeeper’s toes at such set-pieces.

77 min: Preston double-substitution: Alvaro Fernandez and Daniel Johnson on for Robbie Brady and Ali McCann.

75 min: Davinson Sanchez heads a Preston free-kick from deep clear at the edge of the Spurs penalty area.

70 min: Preston substitution: Ben Woodburn on for Ryan Ledson. Tottenham triple-substitution: Oliver Skipp and Emerson Royal on for Bentancur and Doherty. Arnaut Danjuma is also on for his debut in place of Ryan Sessegnon.

Spurs double their lead. With his back to goal in the Preston penalty area, Son takes a fine pass around the corner from Perisic. With a deft turn, he sends Preston defender Jordan Storey skittering into the Deepdale car-park before shooting past Freddie Woodman.

67 min: From the left touchline, Ryan Ledson tries to send a cross into the Tottenham penalty area. His delivery is poor and the ball is cleared by Yves Bissouma.

65 min: With his back to goal, Ivan Perisic outleaps Liam Lindsay and wins a header about eight yards out from the Preston goal. His looping effort threatens to dip under the cross-bar but Freddie Woodman keeps it out.

63 min: Preston win a free-kick about 40 yards from the Tottenham goal. Alan Nrowne floats the ball to the left and it’s headed back across the face of the six-yard box. Tottenham goalkeeper Fraser Forster gathers.

62 min: Preston have responded well in the face of their Son-induced adversity. From the edge of the Spurs penalty area, Ben Whiteman tries to curl the ball inside the left upright but sends his effort fizzing narrowly wide.

61 min: Preston striker Tom Cannon is booked for a blatant dive on the edge of the Tottenham penalty area. He was expecting contact from Japhet Tanganga, who was in close quarters but it never came.

59 min: Alan Browne wins a corner for Preston, his attempted cross ricocheting wide off a defender. Robbie Brady tries to send the ball into the mixer but his delivery is diabolically bad. He fails to clear the first man.

58 min: Andrew Hughes sends the ball forward, Tom Cannon wins the header and flicks it on towards the penalty area. Evans can’t get to it.

56 min: Sessegnon has an attempted cross blocked by Alan Browne. Corner for Tottenham. Son and Perisic take it short and the South Korean creates an angle to get the ball into the Preston box. It’s cleared.

55 min: Preston make a rare attacking sortie into the Spurs half but are unable to carve out an opening. Sessegnon wins possession back for the visitors.

54 min: Preston win a free-kick on the halfway line and Robbie Brady sends the ball floating into the Tottenham penalty area. It’s cleared.

52 min: That was a wonderful strike from Son, who picked up a pass in a central area, picked his spot and then sent an unstoppable shot curling up and down into the bottom left-hand corner.

Spurs lead! It’s third time lucky for Son, who whips a curling, long-range, left-footed effort into the bottom corner from at least 25 yards out. Freddie Woodman saw his shot late and didn’t get near it.

49 min: Clement Lenglet shoots high over the bar from distance, with Spurs moving with conspicuously more urgency in the early stages of this second half. It’s a low bar, to be fair.

48 min: Sessegnon whips a cross into the Preston penalty area from the left but fails to pick out a teammate. His delivery is cleared at the near post.

47 min: Spurs advance and Dejan Kulusevski has a shot blocked after cutting in from the right.

46 min: Play resumes with Spurs kicking off and there are no changes in personnel on either side.

An email: “Only god knows how much abuse Emerson Royal would have received if he had replicated what Sessengon is doing right now and has been doing for this whole season,” writes Yash Gupta. “He receives the ball in nice areas and just basically passes it back to opposition while his defending makes TAA look a world class defender.”

Peep! A seriously underwhelming first half is put out of its misery by referee Peter Bankes but Preston manager Ryan Lowe won’t care about the paucity of entertainment. His side has defended well and restricted Tottenham to three shots from distance but haven’t offered much going forward. Spurs have looked bereft of ideas in the face of a stout wall of white resistance.

44 min: Now Sessegnon attempts to cross the ball from near the left touchline, only to see his effort intercepted by Alan Browne. Moments previously, Liam Lindsay had stuck out a leg to deny Kulusevski a shot on goal with a fine block.

40 min: In space down the inside left, Ryan Sessegnon attempts to cross the ball towards the far post but sends it over the bar and on to the roof of the net, prompting whistles of derision from Preston’s fans. That is atrocious.

38 min: Rodrigo Bentancur runs the ball out of play following a rogue touch. A goal-kick for Preston, whose manager Ryan Lowe will be extremely pleased with his side’s defensive performance thus far.

37 min: From that corner, Spurs win another and the ball breaks towards Dejan Kulusevski. He fires over the bar from distance.

36 min: Spurs win a free-kick wide on the right, deep in Preston territory, in line with the front edge of the penalty area. Son’s delivery fails to clear Robbie Brady, the only man standing in front of him and the ball richoets off the Irishman and out for a corner. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Son’s dead ball delivery is seriously questionable.

34 min: More stout and disciplined defending from Preston prevents Spurs from finding a way through their defence. Two long range efforts from Son aside, they’ve created nothing in this half.

33 min: With all the time in the world at his disposal, Clement Lenglet massively overhits a pass towards Son and sends the ball out for a goal-kick. Can we have some more balloons on the pitch please?