A brace from Christian Eriksen helped ease Spurs to a 3-0 Premier League win over Hull City at White Hart Lane.

The Dane opened the scoring with less than a quarter of an hour played, before grabbing his second of the game with a poacher’s effort after half time.

He almost had a third shortly after, but his freekick was turned onto the post and into the path of Victor Wanyama, who secured three points for the home side.

Dele Alli fired a warning shot early on- his low drive on the five-minute mark seemed to be heading goalwards until Tigers centre back Curtis Davies intervened.

But Spurs were ahead soon after, when Eriksen captialised on superb play by Danny Rose to fire past David Marshall in the Hull net.

Rose’s trickery wrong-footed Ahmed Elmohamady and the England international’s cutback found Eriksen, who finished with aplomb from eight yards.

A switch in formation saw Tottenham play from the start with three at the back, but Hull gave Eric Dier, Jan Vertonghen and the returning Toby Alderweireld little to do in the first half.

The visitors finally tested Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris after half an hour, but Jake Livermore was unable to make clean contact with Andrew Robertson’s ball into the box.

The Tigers looked less toothless after the break and Tottenham old boy Livermore almost found an equaliser on the hour mark.

His shot rebounded back off Rose, before a second attempt was saved by the foot of Lloris.

Spurs doubled their advantage after an hour through Eriksen’s second goal of the game, this time assisted by Kyle Walker.

Walker made a surging run down the right before playing a dangerous square ball across the face of goal, leaving the Tottenham’s number 23 a tap-in at the far post.

Victor Wanyama put the game beyond doubt ten minutes later, after he was first to react to the rebound when an Eriksen free kick came back off the post.

Marshall made a fingertip save to deny the midfielder his hat trick, but could only push ball onto the woodwork before Wanyama pounced to put Spurs three up.

The win leave Tottenham three points off the top four.

Spurs will now welcome Burnley to White Hart Lane on Sunday in their final game before Christmas.