It would be just like Tottenham Hotspur to take on a side languishing near the bottom of the table coming off two wins thanks to a “new manager bounce”. That’s the situation this weekend against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Spurs will be happy to get out of 2024, but the immediate future is not necessarily any brighter.

A hitherto entertaining Tottenham attack were bereft of ideas against the inspired pairing of Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo, as Ange Postecoglou 's off-colour Lilywhites fell to their second straight Premier League defeat and an embarrassing fourth from their last five matches in the top flight.