Tottenham could be in for a tough couple of months.
Spurs’ 2-1 defeat to Wolves, who scored both goals in stoppage time, was a dreadful end to a nightmare week that implies they will struggle to retain their good start and apply Ange Postecoglou’s gameplan without James Maddison, Micky van de Ven, and others.
Spurs deserved what they got after Brennan Johnson’s third-minute goal when substitute Pablo Sarabia and Mario Lemina ghosted into the box and finished from close range.
It was a performance more in keeping with Antonio Conte’s back-foot side.

Spurs were missing five players from the squad for Monday’s 4-1 defeat to Chelsea, which increasingly feels like it could be a sliding door moment for their season.
Without center-backs Van de Ven and Cristian Romero, who served the first of a three-match ban, in came Eric Dier and Ben Davies, while Emerson Royal deputized for Destiny Udogie, also suspended, and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg replaced Maddison.
Richarlison, too, was missing from the bench following surgery on a groin problem.
It took just two minutes and 15 seconds to suggest Spurs would not allow the fallout from Monday night to completely upend their season, with Johnson converting Pedro Porro’s cross at the near post before Wolves had managed a meaningful kick.

Thereafter, however, the Spurs were second-best and far too unassertive.
Towards the end of the first half, when Molineux briefly fell silent, Postecoglou could clearly be heard bellowing at his players to ‘get up’, reflecting a sense that Spurs were sitting off Wolves in a manner that is anathema to the Australian.