A weird game was not a one-off. Not in one respect, anyway. With Tottenham reduced to nine men, their defence pushed up to halfway, affording acres of space to Mauricio Pochettino’s fast forwards, Chelsea eventually worked out how to spring an offside trap. They scored four goals.
And then, for the second time in a week, they did it again. Against 11 men. Of Manchester City, the treble winners, the team who had not conceded four in a match for more than three years, who had only been breached four times in a match once since January 2018.
