Jose Mourinho made it very clear that Tottenham Hotspur travelled to Chelsea on Sunday looking to come home with all three points.
However, there were occasions during the game when the Spurs boss showed that coming away with the point was more important than attempting to nick all three while leaving themselves exposed.
The point was better for the visitors than it was for the hosts, although both free-scoring teams played it safe far too often in a match with little attacking quality.
Two players who were among the better performers for Tottenham, full-backs Sergio Reguilon and Serge Aurier, did not escape the wrath of Mourinho and neither did new boy Joe Rodon.
During the previous weekend's win against Manchester City, Aurier was clearly instructed to curb his attacking instincts and concentrate on the defensive side of his game.
Speedster Reguilon embarked on a couple of forward runs but on the whole also focused on defending against City's attacking threats.
Against Chelsea, however, both players had moments when they got forward in an attempt to get at their hosts and sometimes it resulted in dressing downs from either Mourinho or their team-mates.
On one occasion in the second half, Reguilon burst down the left, got to the byline and put in a cross that did not materialise into anything for Spurs.
Although Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg had got across to cover the left-back, Reguilon received the wrath of Mourinho as he trotted back past the technical area.
Rodon received a similar dressing down from Mourinho and his assistant Joao Sacramento for one foray from central defence that left him out of position near the halfway line and culminated with Timo Werner putting the ball into the net before VAR ruled him offside.
The young Welshman also dished out instructions himself, at times shouting to Aurier to get back into position and where to move to.
Moussa Sissoko, who was covering when Aurier did get caught upfield, appeared to be having a heated conversation with the Ivorian, which appeared to be over positioning, as the two close friends walked off at half-time.
It wasn't just about being happy with a point though for Mourinho, who coined the term 'parking the bus' about Tottenham's 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge against his Chelsea team in 2004.
He did also unleash his fury at Giovani Lo Celso late in the game for a failure at the other end of the pitch.
A loose Kurt Zouma pass was seized upon by Spurs outside the Chelsea box in the game's final moments and it was a big opportunity for the visitors to grab all three points.
However, Lo Celso, who struggled with his pass accuracy after coming off the bench, messed up in the crucial moment, neither launching a shot at goal nor a pass to a team-mate, instead hitting the ball out of play to nobody.
Mourinho unleashed an angry verbal volley at the Argentine for fluffing his lines and he said after the game that he wanted the win.
"I share with my players this mentality that we have. We are totally on the same side," said Mourinho.
"We came here to win and we didn't. We didn't because the opponent was defensively very good, they didn't take risks.
"They were solid and they didn't project many players in attack like they normally do and also because we need to do little bit better.
"We built well from the keeper, we were very comfortable on that. We arrived at the midfield line many, many times with the ball controlled and with our midfield players with the ball at the feet. Then we didn't transform that on occasions. That was basically our problem."
Mourinho made much of Chelsea playing without much risk, and that was certainly true for large periods, and that being a problem for Spurs' counter-attacking plans, but the Portuguese certainly made sure that his defenders did not see too much of the opposition half.
