Chelsea have rarely needed invitation to pile misery on Tottenham in this fixture, the visitors having claimed just one win at Stamford Bridge in 35 years.
This was as lifeless an iteration as Spurs can have fielded in that window, and yet here, in the opening 45 minutes in particular, the Blues came dangerously close to letting them off the hook, twisting, turning and teasing, but stubbornly declining to land a blow.
