Spurs are veering from one extreme to the other this season - they must make sure their thrashing of the champions is not another false dawn

James Maddison scored twice inside the first 20 minutes to put Tottenham 2-0 up at a stunned Manchester City. After losing four games in a row in all competitions for the first time in his managerial career, Pep Guardiola will have expected a reaction from his side after the international break.

If the first scarcely left City distraught, with Guardiola unworried by exiting the Carabao Cup, the latest was more emphatic, more dramatic, more chastening, more stunning. Guardiola’s joint heaviest defeat became an embarrassment.