Enzo Maresca appeared to have worked out by half time that it is not necessary to take undue risks against Tottenham to create chances. They will come regardless. They always come because that’s the way Spurs play.
Caution thrown to the wind in storm season. Not only do they pour players forward and offer great, tempting, wide-open spaces in transition, but Ange Postecoglou does not like to see them playing safe on the ball.
His team are crammed with players such as Pedro Porro, Destiny Udogie and Yves Bissouma who are not defensively astute despite being relied on to occupy defensive positions, and thus never far removed from a costly error in a dangerous area.