You can’t play Leeds every week, Antonio. It was always likely that Saturday’s 4-0 stroll at Elland Road was something of an illusion when it came to assessing the return to form of Antonio Conte’s Tottenham.
And so it proved during this FA Cup exit to Championship Middlesbrough, for whom teenage substitute Josh Coburn smashed a deserved winner in extra time.
Spurs, though, were poor, reverting to the clueless bunch who had lost four in five before their weekend reprieve.
Conte came into this game claiming his threats to quit last week were a strategy designed to bring about improvement in his team.