Conte's chemistry
While Antonio Conte sat staring out the window on his flight back to Italy on Saturday night, preparing to spend some brief quality time with his wife Elisabetta and daughter Vittoria, three things about Spurs might just have made him happy.
After he had dried the tears from the startling realisation that he had not been able to match Nuno Espirito Santo's start to last season with the club, he would have smiled at least at the thought that they are getting points in matches they lost last time out - seven up on the corresponding defeats he oversaw in the last campaign.
