Premier League: Tottenham 4 Liverpool 0

A dominant display from Tottenham saw them record a 4-0 thumping of nine-man Liverpool at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

Goals from Luka Modric, Jermain Defoe and a brace from Emmanuel Adebayor were way too much for Liverpool as the visitors had Charlie Adam and Martin Skrtel sent off in a game which the home side controlled from start to finish.

Tottenham erased any memories of the drubbing to Manchester City and dealt out the misery to Kenny Dalglish’s side who were never in the running.

Adebayor was on song early but his effort after four minutes spilled just wide of the Liverpool goal.

But the hosts got their first moments later when Modric received the ball from Jermain Defoe and smashed it into the far corner of Pepe Reina’s net to ignite White Hart Lane.

The Croat caused mayhem again as he hit a low shot across the goal, forcing Reina to dive low to his left.

A surprise break in the one-way nature of the game came when Kyle Walker’s error allowed Andy Carroll to play through to strike partner Luis Suarez, whose cool finish seemingly gave Liverpool parity only for referee Mike Jones to call it back for offside against the Uruguayan.

The problems continued to mount up for the visitors as Daniel Agger received an injury – but worse was to come as Charlie Adam, who was already on a yellow, went in high for a 50-50 ball with Scott Parker and made contact with the former West Ham man’s thigh, drawing a second yellow card as he was sent on his way.

Liverpool limped towards half-time and then received another booking, this time for Suarez for sarcastically applauding when a decision went the Reds’ way.

For all their dominance, Spurs led only 1-0 at the break but they came out fired up and their advantage was reinforced when yet another yellow card was enough to see Martin Skrtel dismissed.

With Liverpool now down to nine men, the home side took full advantage as second-half substitute Rafael Van der Vaart found Defoe free to run almost unimpeded on goal.

Adebayor endeared himself to the Spurs fans a little more when a mistake from Reina allowed the former Manchester City striker to make the lead 3-0.

From there, Tottenham were happy to knock the ball around knowing that the nine red shirts could do little about it and the three points were safely in the bank.

Adebayor then made it two on the final whistle to punctuate a horrible afternoon for Dalglish’s side.