Bentancur usually rotates ownership of the holding midfield role with Yves Bissouma but they both started against Wolves and it offered Spurs a more solid base in midfield and they would take it in turns to push further forward.

A home game against relegation-threatened opposition ought to mean only one thing for Tottenham. Instead, there was an impossible-to-ignore sense of foreboding before and during plenty of this one. It is simply the period that Ange Postecoglou and his players are living.

Tottenham Hotspur must reinforce the squad in January to deal with the club's ongoing injury crisis, manager Ange Postecoglou said on Friday, with the North London side languishing in 11th place in the Premier League.