Harry Kane hailed one of the "greatest moments" in his fledgling Tottenham career after helping the club snatch a 2-1 comeback victory over 10-man Aston Villa with a late winner at Villa Park.
Villa's five-game and 547-minute wait for a goal ended when Andreas Weimann opened the scoring following a spell of dominance from the hosts as he collected Charles N'Zogbia's cross to slot home from close range.
Tempers flared for the second time in little over five minutes after the hour mark and Christian Benteke was shown a straight red card by referee Neil Swarbrick following a tussle with Ryan Mason in which the Belgium international raised his hand to his opponent's face.
Things started to go downhill for the hosts after that and Spurs found their equaliser with five minutes left as an unmarked Nacer Chadli fired home Lamela's corner, before substitute Kane's deflected last-gasp free kick claimed all three points for the away side.
Kane told Sky Sports 1: "Without a doubt it was one of the greatest moments for me in a Spurs shirt in my career so far. To be 1-0 down in an important game for us, we needed a win and to pull it back there at the end is a moment I won't forget.''
Wow what a feeling and what a win. Great spirit shown! Buzzing for the lads and the fans! Makes the journey home much sweeter! #COYS #Spurs
- Harry Kane (@hkane28) November 2, 2014
The 21-year-old striker, who was sent on by Mauricio Pochettino with just over 30 minutes left, added: "The manager said there's plenty of time left to be getting on the ball, you'll get some chances so take one, and obviously, fortunately, I was able to do that and it's all smiles in the dressing room now.''
As for taking the 89th-minute free kick, Kane said: "He [Mason] wanted it and he'd taken the one before, but I said 'this one can be mine.' And obviously it ended up in the back of the net and it was great -- a great result.''
The win was only Tottenham's second in eight league outings but lifted them to eighth, three points adrift of the top four.
Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino resisted calls to start Kane following his seven goals in cup competitions, but was pleased with the striker's winner.
He said: "We are really happy with him because in every competition he has scored, his display was good and the three points are very important for us.
"In football it's about emotional state and Harry had confidence and took the ball [for the free kick] and scored. It was a good result because we won three points. I am happy and the team showed their character.
"Our position in the table was not good. Now we are three points off the places for the Champions League. In football it can change a lot. We know the situation, we need to build something special and in that process you need time and to be strong.''
Villa manager Paul Lambert, meanwhile, was disappointed with Benteke's red card which marked a turnaround in Spurs' fortunes.
He said: "There's things on the pitch which were a bit nasty, I thought. I'm not condoning what Christian done, you can't raise your hands and get away with it. But if you look a few frames before that, you see that the lad's [Lamela] actually bumped him -- but Christian can't react to that, but he's provoked him as well.
"[Before the red card] I thought we were really comfortable and well in the ascendency of the game. I thought Benteke was excellent and he and [Charles] N'Zogbia were playing ever so well together. It changed the game in the sense that it gave Tottenham the ascendency to play against 10 men.''
Lambert's Villa side had not scored in their last five games -- all of which were defeats -- and although they broke the deadlock here, the defeat marks their sixth straight loss and leaves them just two points above the relegation zone.
The Villa boss added: "I thought we were excellent, we could have won the game. The chances we had in the first half, I don't think they could cope with Benteke and I thought N'Zogbia was excellent, but with 10 men we gave it everything we had.''