Premier League crisis club of the week 2023/24: Tottenham Hotspur
Another week, another Premier League club in crisis.
This time it's a team who had been flying high throughout the first ten gameweeks of the Premier League season before everything started going wrong.
That's right, this week's club in crisis is Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham Hotspur.
From the only unbeaten team in the Premier League to losing to two mid-table teams in the space of six days — it's not been a great week for Tottenham.
The Lilywhites looked like they were gearing up to wipe the floor with Chelsea last Monday in the opening half an hour of the game, scoring inside six minutes and having another soon disallowed.
But then the bad things started happening.
Cristian Romero saw red for a daft challenge on Argentina teammate Enzo Fernandez inside the box, allowing Cole Palmer to score the resulting penalty and equalise.
Micky van de Ven and James Maddison were both brought off in first-half added time with severe injuries before Destiny Udogie made things even trickier for the hosts with a red card of his own.
To top it all off, Nicolas Jackson then helped himself to a hat-trick. Yep, a lot went wrong.
All those injuries and suspensions led to a rather drab performance at Molineux on Saturday too, with Spurs succumbing to two stoppage time goals in a 2-1 defeat.
Tottenham's starting XI has been exceptional thus far this season but it was only a matter of time before the lack of quality depth reared its ugly head.
With eight players out injured, including speed demon Van de Ven and key creative outlet Maddison, and both Romero and Udogie suspended for Saturday's defeat at Wolves, it's been laid bare just how thin Postecoglou's squad is.
The forced reintroduction of Eric Dier and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg gave Spurs fans a glimpse
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