Spurs in crisis: it is probably a tribute to the progress made at
Tottenham Hotspur that Mauricio Pochettino’s team have managed to attract this kind of talk so early in the season. But there is a tipping point to these things, and the sense of a Spurs team disappearing into itself deepened on the south coast as Brighton & Hove Albion produced a wonderful attacking performance to run out deserved 3-0 winners.
Above all, this was a tremendous occasion for Aaron Connolly, a 19-year-old from Galway who scored twice on his full league debut and was a quick-turning, two-footed menace throughout.