Chelsea come from two goals down inside 11 minutes to beat Tottenham 4-3 and cut Liverpool’s lead at the summit to four points

Enzo Maresca said it was “completely wrong” to talk of a title challenge despite Chelsea cutting Liverpool’s lead at the Premier League summit to four points after a superb comeback win at Tottenham Hotspur.

The Blues could not have got off to a worse start at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, finding themselves 2-0 down inside 11 minutes as Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski took advantage of two unfortunate slips by Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella.

Jadon Sancho reduced the deficit soon after and they were fortunate midfielder Moises Caicedo escaped a red card for a shin-high tackle on Pape Sarr, which proved crucial as Caicedo was carelessly hacked down at the start of the second period by Yves Bissouma to give the visitors a penalty.

Cole Palmer tucked away the spot-kick just past the hour mark before he brilliantly created space to deliver a deflected cross for Enzo Fernandez to lash in the visitors’ third in the 73rd minute.

Sarr then gave away a needless penalty for an unnecessary barge on Palmer, who stepped up to convert a panenka penalty with six minutes left for his 12th goal of the season.

Spurs captain Son Heung-min did pull one back in stoppage time, but Chelsea held on to run out 4-3 winners to move up to second in the table.