At last, amid all the gloom, a sliver of positive news for Tottenham. On a day when their injury crisis reached yet greater heights, they met an out-of-sorts Liverpool resting players for Wednesday’s Champions League tie against Galatasaray. The result was a game of very high squad numbers that for long sections had the feel of an early round of the Carabao Cup, both in intensity and quality. And that is not the league, which from a Spurs point of view makes it a much less terrifying prospect.

The point certainly doesn’t suddenly end Tottenham’s relegation fears, but it does end a run of six successive defeats – and that is not nothing. Igor Tudor has his first point as Spurs manager and they are one game closer to the end of the season and still not in the relegation zone. But Spurs will not find many opponents quite so accommodating as Liverpool. This was a weirdly ragged game, somehow littered with chances but lacking much in the way of coherence or ordered creativity, a mess that could have gone either way. And Liverpool will wonder how on earth, having gone ahead against this Tottenham, they failed to win.