Lucas Moura hat-trick fires faultless Tottenham past demoralised Huddersfield

Lucas Moura, man of the match, walks off with the match ball. Will he start against City? Huddesrfield were never at the races and Tottenham strolled to victory, establishing a platform in the first half and finishing them off in the second. 

Lucas Moura goes to wait patiently by the corner until his partner hands him his young son. And, with dummy in place, he proceeds to dribble the matchball with his dad. That's great. 

Sensational finish for the hat-trick. Set up by Son's blistering run up the inside-right channel and perfectly weighted pass. Moura, tacking from centrefield to the right, let the ball run across him then rifled a right-foot shot back across goal, over Hamer and in at the far post. 

Tottenham 4-0 Huddersfield (Lucas Moura)

We'll have three more minutes. Huddersfield have improved in the second half but they haven't been able to live with Tottenham's class. 

Made by Eriksen accelerating down the right. He sent in a Barnes-Wallis of a bouncing bomb cross that Lucas Moura did well to control as it spat up at him. His touch took it into the box and he pummeled a half-volley past Hamer. He liked it so much he went on a long tumbling spree towards the corner flag, shades of Lua Lua and Robbie Keane. 

Tottenham 3-0 Huddersfield (Lucas Moura)

The cameras pick out Dele Alli, who is nursing a wrist injury. 

Son is ready to come on next. Huddersfield make a burst down the left but Lowe's cross sails over Lloris and behind for a goalkick. Son replaces Llorente who is holding his shin. 

Suddenly Huddersfield have found some bite and are playing on the front foot at last. Patience is understandable but it's taken them far too long to switch. Tottenham substitution: Danny Rose on for Vertonghen. 

Mooy comes on for Huddersfield, replacing Stankovic. Far too late. 

Spurs break like lightning from the Town corner and Walker-Peters brings the ball 70 yards with support either side of him. When they get to the 18-yard line he slips it to Eriksen on his left and his shot is blocked and deflects on to the post. He is going to snaffle the rebound until Kachunga makes a vital interception. 

Huddersfield free-kick, 22 yards out. Bacuna takes and bends it over the wall and towards the top left corner, Lloris gets over and slaps it over the bar. 

Big chance for Town after a wonderful pass from Hogg. Huddersfield's best player motored away from Skipp and Wanyama and then stood up a diagonal pass from right to left and on to Mounie's head. The Huddersfield sub darted between Foyth and Sanchez and steered a header from 15 yards wide of Lloris's left post. Should have scored.  

Tottenham substitution: Skipp for Sissoko who departs to a rousing ovation. A minute earlier Walker-Peters stole into the box to shoot and from the resulting corner Eriksen thrashed a shot from 18 yards wide. 

Then, from Lloris's quick throw, Tottenham flood forward and Lucas Moura hooks a pass on to Llorente in the box. He has a gap for a left-foot shot but decides to trap it and move it back on to his right, allowing Schindler the opportunity to slide into a block. 

Chances at both ends - Grant first sprints down the left and cuts in towards goal. Llorente comes out to narrow his options and Grant fires a left foot shot across goal that strikes the retreating Sanchez and bounces safely to Llorente. Did it hit his hand? Looked suspicious but no one appealed. 

Tottenham almost catch Huddersfield cold after the substitution when Walker-Peters bombs down the right and arcs over a cross that should have been met properly. Instead it's a corner. 

Huddersfield substitution - Durm off Mounie on. A striker for one of the two left-backs. Lowe will drop back. 

Davies faces up Hadergjonaj, beats him on the outside and fizzes in a cross that Llorente meets at the left boundary of the six-yard box and flashes a header across goal and wide of the right post. 

Lucas Moura takes the pass from Eriksen as he steps in off the left flank, drops his shoulder to shimmy past Hogg, sends Hadergjonaj off for an evening paper and uses the space he has created for himself to whip a low shot too close to Hamer from 20 yards. 

At last some spark from Huddersfield in this past two minutes, committing a couple more players forward but it's still very rigid. Foyth is booked for clattering Grant who is lively and makes intelligent runs depiste his rawness. He needs help and either Mooy or Pritchard on to pick a pass. 

Hogg wins the ball from Wanyama but he can't do it alone and Vertonghen picks him off and starts a Spurs counter. They flood forward but can't break Huddesrfield's lines this time. 

After treatment he's OK. 

Wanyama needs treatment on an ankle injury caused by a clumsy challenge from Kachunga. 

Using angled runs and diagonal passes to shift Huddersfield's defenders out of position, Eriksen spins quickly to play an inside-out pass to Davies storming down the left. The wing-back takes it in his stride and scuffs a shot back across goal and about five yards wide. 

Tottenham corner on the right. Eriksen plays it short, takes the one-two return from Lucas Moura then bends a left-foot cross over Durm for Sanchez who flicks a shot across goal that Hamer beats away. 

Tottenham free-kick, 35 yards out. left of centre. Eriksen takes and Stankovic heads it out. Erisken meets the clearance, takes the ball forward, never entirely under control, and improvises a hurried shot from 25 yards that can't penetrate a thicket of black-socked shins. 

They must know that standing off has been the cause of their struggles in the first half but Herr Siewert sends them out to do the same again so when Tottenham break their lines, this time Llorente, they are totally exposed. Llorente takes the scooped cross, controls it delicately then flicks a shot over Hamer and on to the bar from 12 yards. 

Here we go again. Any fight in the Terriers? The back five retreat to the 18-yard line when Tottenham take possession. 

Huddersfield simply can't live with Tottenham who may not have their best XI out but have enough quality and understanding of the Pochettino tactics and system to have been utterly dominant so far. 

Durm bounds up the left and makes it to the corner flag with Lowe as his ADC. Walker-Peters makes the tackle at the cost of a throw-in. When Huddersfield concede possession from the throw, Lowe hacks at Walker-Peters to stop him flying off on a counter. Yellow card. 

Without Hogg, Huddersfield would be three or four down. He's the only one capable of consistently disrupting Tottenham attacks but he is too often overwhelmed. 

Sissoko sprints to the touchline to save a ball from going out for a Huddersfield throw, gets there first and turns towards goal to send in a cross but before he cam Lowe clatters into him. Eriksen sends the free kick into the box, just behind Llorente who has to arch backwards to meet it and in doing so takes precision out of the equation, arrowing his header over the bar. 

And here is Lucas Moura's second:

Speaking of the Brazil forward, he hooks on Walker-Peters' pass over his shoulder towards the penalty spot. Llorente stuns it with his back to goal, his default position, spins on to his left and fires a low shot at the advancing Hamer who manages to block it. 

Tottenham, having already won the game, stroke the ball around and make Huddersfield work. Vertonghen ends the long spell of possession by floating a cross down Hamer's throat.

Chance for Huddersfield when Stankovic steals into the box unmarked to meet a cross from the right on the volley which he scuffs wide.He attacked it with no conviction, hanging his foot out to deflect it in hope rather than strike a shot at goal. Poor effort but then he is a centre-half by trade, stuck in midfield.  Here's Wanyama rounding Hamer before scoring:

Spurs pick Huddersfield off on the break. Sissoko makes one of those driving, unstoppable runs from right-half to inside-right, the ball under immaculate control before he slipped Lucas Moura in with a flick that took Kongolo out of his way. Lucas Moura, cutting in from the right wing, took a touch then flashed a low shot across Hamer and in at the far post. Easy as ABC. 

Tottenham 2-0 Huddersfield (Lucas Moura)

Terrific finish from Wanyama who had gambled with a third-man run through the inside-right channel. Davies knocked it up to Llorente, who had his back to goal, and though he tried to trap it he succeeded in flicking it into Wanyama's path by accident. The midfielder burst past Schindler and then, with delicate footwork, sold Hamer a dummy, rounded him and rolled the ball into the net. 

Tottenham 1-0 Huddersfield (Wanyama)

Tottenham are playing 3-2-4-1 really, Huddersfield 5-3-1-1. For about 30 seconds Tottenham are trapped down by their right corner flag as town turn Terriers but Wanyama,  Foyth and Sanchez casually stroke it around until they work a pass back to Lloris who switches it swiftly so they can probe up the left. 

Something not quite right with Eriksen's timing so far, or rather his ability to adjust to Lucas Moura and Llorente as opposed to Kane and Alli. He turns one ball round the corner and through the D for Lucas Moura to run on to. Great vision but Lucas Moura hadn't anticipated it and gave Schindler the time to get there first. 

Despite Huddersfield's numbers in midfield and defence, it's like a hot knife through butter when Tottenham break. Pace undoes positional  discipline. Here's Huddersfield's best moment when Hadergjonaj beats Davies on the outside and zips in a low cross towards the 18-yard line. Grant gets ahead of Sissoko but cannot make contact. Hogg wins it back for Town when Tottenham clear but Kachunga is penalised harshly for a foul and the rare foray ends. 

Deep cross from Davies is met beyond the far post by Walker-Peters who directs a header back across goal aimed for Llorente but without the necessary precision. Spurs have had 90 per cent of possession so far.  Meanwhile, the crowd is having its ongoing battle with the stewards over sitting down or standing up. 'Stand up if you hate Arsenal' is the rallying cry to defy officialdom. 

Wanyama, invited to shoot by the crowd and Huddersfield's permanently retreating defence, obliges and scuds a daisy-cutter from 22 yards wide of Hamer's right post. 

Hamer drops another cross, this time from Vertonghen who had won it by the corner flag from Hadergjonaj but he grasped it at the second attempt. 

Bacuna drops back in to join a midfield four and Huddersfield retreat into a massed defence, inviting Spurs on to them. Wanyama and Foyth combine slickly to free Walker-Peters as the third side of the triangle. He gets to the byline and arcs in a cross that Hamer flaps at. Davies, the other wing-back, has tucked in and wins it but Huddersfield scramble it clear. 

Tottenham lump a high ball back into the box. Lucas Moura goes up with Hamer and the keeper wins the ball but only by yanking the forward by the shoulder to get ahead of him. Tottenham appeal for a penalty but Lee Mason deploys his stately backwards running to get the hell out of Dodge. 

Huddersfield are sitting very deep and Lucas Moura deploys his speed to catch them, bending a run in from the right towards the D where Hogg trips him. Free-kick 22 yards out, dead centre. Eriksen takes and fires it straight into the wall. 

Tottenham kick off and from the elevated camera position, it's easy to discern that Huddersfield are going to try to stick rigidly to a bank of five and one of three with Bacuna floating behind the quick Karlan Grant. Tottenham, who may need to go more direct today to get the best out of Llorente, begin by stroking it about in their own half. 

Huddersfield haven't beaten Spurs anywhere since 1956 - though they've only played eight games in 63 years. This was the last time, Dave Hickson scoring the winner:

But their line-up, nonetheless, has provoked ire among the big noises on the Twitter trumpet who are bemoaning the lack of adventure, particularly the absence of Son. I'm not sure it's worth the risk of starting him and if Llorente and Davies do their jobs, Llorente will have chances. 

Not sure what's going on with Huddersfield. Philip Billing has always impressed me when I've seen them and there's very little point in having Pritchard and Mooy if you're not going to play them. Obviously with Billing it's making sure the turkey doesn't break its leg before taking it to Christmas market but it's a bit pathetic even if they have a record transfer offer for him. 

Tottenham Hotspur Lloris; Foyth, Sánchez, Vertonghen; Walker-Peters, Sissoko, Wanyama, Davies; Eriksen, Lucas Moura; Llorente.
Substitutes Gazzaniga, Trippier, Rose, Alderweireld, Marsh, Skipp, Son.

Huddersfield Town Hamer; Hadergjonaj, Schindler, Kongolo, Durm; Hogg, Stankovic; Bacuna, Kachunga, Lowe; Grant.
Substitutes Coleman, Smith, Zanka, Mooy, Williams, Pritchard, Mounie.

Referee Lee Mason (Bolton). 

No surprises here. With Tottenham facing a Champions League quarter-final second leg against Manchester City on Wednesday AND City again in the league next weekend, Mauricio Pochettino rings the changes.

Harry Kane is out for the rest of the season and Dele Alli  doesn't make the squad after breaking his hand against City this week (although Pochettino is confident he will be fit to play this week).

Juan Foyth, Davinson Sanchez, Ben Davies, Kyle Walker-Peters, Vincent Wanyama, Lucas Moura and Fernando Llorente come in. That's SEVEN changes. Son Heung-min is on the bench.

There are three changes for already relegated Huddersfield, who are missing Issac Mbenza through illness.