Tottenham Hotspur had a day the fans will want to forget quickly with their miserable 1-0 home defeat to Newcastle.
Joelinton scored the only goal of a game which saw Spurs have 80 per cent of the possession but barely come close to hitting the back of the Newcastle net.
This was a match about those who played, those who didn't and Mauricio Pochettino's words after the game when he spoke about this being the most unsettled Spurs squad since he arrived at the club in 2014.
The performance at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was arguably the worst witnessed there since it opened about five months ago.
Here are our winners and losers from the day:
Christian Eriksen
The Dane actually was very ordinary when he came on. If anything Giovani Lo Celso contributed more with less touches of the ball.
However, his absence from the team from the start showed that once again Spurs missed him pulling the strings in the first hour.
Pochettino was not as convinced.
"Should the result be 3-0 or 4-0 you're not going to ask me that question but of course I accept it," he said. "The players who are out are always good when you don't win."
Spurs didn't win 3-0 or 4-0, they didn't look like they could score a single goal and you can't help but wonder whether the Dane could have produced a higher quality in the attacking areas, particularly in the early stages when Spurs swept forward.
Jan Vertonghen
At the start of the match Pochettino had some justification for sticking with the Davinson Sanchez and Toby Alderweireld partnership and leaving Jan Vertonghen, complete with his mystery black eye, on the bench.
On paper, Spurs had not lost yet and the duo had done well on the whole at the Etihad Stadium in the face of wave after wave of Manchester City attacks.
However this performance betrayed the lack of balance in the Spurs back line with Sanchez playing out of position on the left. He looks shaky alongside Danny Rose who offered him little support in key moments.
Unless whatever Vertonghen has done to offend Pochettino is truly awful, he needs to come into the backline for the north London derby.
Dele Alli
Rarely appreciated in recent seasons, Dele Alli is one of those players who you don't realise how important they are until they're out of the side.
The 23-year-old had a quiet season by his standards in a campaign fragmented by injury yet despite the criticism that came his way, he scored or assisted 15 goals in 38 matches. He contributed to Spurs hitting the net on average in almost every other game in a sub-par season.
Spurs miss his attacking movement right now and his ability to link up the midfield with attack. He's back in training and he'll be needed on the bench next weekend at the Emirates.
Steve Bruce
Credit to the Newcastle boss. He was under fire but came to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and set his team up with great organisation and in a compact shape.
If we're going to criticise Spurs for their lack of creativity then the visitors and their manager have to also be praised for barely giving them a sniff at goal.
Losers
Davinson Sanchez
Pochettino is a big fan of the Colombian and won't hear a bad word said about him, but this was a poor performance from the 23-year-old and his positioning was suspect at times.
With Rose sticking out wide on the left rather than tucking, Newcastle's primary attacking plan was to exploit the gaping chasm between the two men with three balls into that space and they could, and perhaps should, have scored from all of them.
I asked Pochettino if he was worried about that left-sided pairing of Sanchez and Rose after the game, bearing in mind the same two players were at fault for Villa's goal in the same stadium in the opening weekend.
"Only if you see the end of the situation. We need to analyse, like VAR, we need to go back and see maybe 10, 20 or 30 seconds before what happened and why this situation arrived," he said.
"We cannot blame them. First of all it's to blame me and then blame the collective performance when you concede a goal like this."
Erik Lamela
The Argentine was coming off a goal and an assist in the reigning champions' back yard but this was another chance to show that in his natural number 10 position he could make up for the absence of Eriksen.
He didn't. He certainly wasn't any worse than Lucas Moura or Son Heung-min, but Spurs needed Lamela to produce the brave through balls to unlock a compact defence and he didn't delliver.
Kyle Walker-Peters
The young right-back didn't put in the worst performance, although his attacking play lacked the thrust to drive at the Newcastle backline.
The reason he is in this section is the hamstring injury which forced him off in the second half.
If it proves to be any more than a knock then it's come at the worst possible time for Walker-Peters, just as he was starting to get a run of games and lay his claim for the shirt.
Mauricio Pochettino
The Spurs boss said himself that he is the first to be blamed for the defeat and while his players certainly let him down, ultimately he failed to impact the game tactically with his starting XI or his substitutions.
There are reasons behind his selections, but ultimately he couldn't find a way around Newcastle's stubborn defence and if Steve Bruce is a winner, that Pochettino has to be a loser.
