Fulham clung on for a point at Tottenham after captain Tom Cairney came on, scored a deserved equaliser to make it 1-1 and then saw red for a nasty challenge on Dejan Kulusevski.
The visitors were ruing a string of missed chances and Fraser Forster saves when Brennan Johnson volleyed in his 10th goal of the season from a Spurs counter-attack on 54 minutes.
But sub Cairney fired them level from Alex Iwobi's pass with his first goal in a year.
There was controversy at that point as Cairney had come on for Sasa Lukic who had been lucky to escape a second yellow card for a challenge on Heung-Min Son. But referee Darren Bond was swift to show Cairney a red when VAR advised him to watch the midfielder rake his studs into Kulusevski's calf.
That left Fulham needing to see out the final five minutes of normal time and seven minutes added on and, despite Spurs piling forward, Marco Silva's men managed to leave north London with a point.
It made for another frustrating result for Tottenham, who have won just one of their five Premier League games after Europa League fixtures, but they were far from their best here, with Son and Radu Dragusin both denied by Bernd Leno in the first half.
Tottenham sit seventh, three points off the top four. Fulham are a point back in 10th.
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