Tottenham

Jermain Defoe kept Tottenham on course for Wembley and brought the curtains down on the Leeds fairytale with a hat-trick in a high octane fourth-round FA Cup replay at Elland Road. Defoe's mishit opener in the 37th minute was cancelled out by Luciano Becchio's equaliser at the end of the first half. But the England striker poached a second-half winner and then a late third to secure a 3-1 triumph and book the Londoners a fifth-round tie at Bolton the weekend after next. Leeds had put themselves back on the national stage with their third-round upset at Manchester United and won more new friends with an inspired late fightback 11 days ago in the initial tie at White Hart Lane. But ultimately Simon Grayson's League One upstarts ran out of legs against polished Champions League contenders, who will now have one eye at least fixed on the FA Cup. Defoe missed a hatful of first-half chances to put the tie to bed, just as he had done against Leeds in London, and Grayson's side harried and chased to keep most in an Elland Road crowd of 37,704 full of expectation until the visitors' decisive second goal.