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Spurs fans always refer to 'Dr Tottenham' - the innate ability their team has to cure struggling team's ills. If your team is in a bad way, if they've struggled to win matches or score goals, well then Dr Tottenham will see you now.

Except at Elland Road on Saturday afternoon, Dr Leeds was already in attendance.

After a week in which Spurs threw away the positive vibes built at the Etihad Stadium on the rain-sodden pitch at Turf Moor and Antonio Conte's emotional rollercoaster swerved all over the place, Tottenham really needed the generous gifts of Leeds.

Marcelo Bielsa's team were so open that they played to Spurs' strengths and with 11 shots on target and Harry Kane conducting everything, 4-0 didn't even really reflect the game.

It could have been 8-3 with the nature of Leeds' constant pushing forward and defensive mistakes and Spurs' speed on the break.

Conte's outburst in the week had been a challenge to his players, a ploy to scare them into better ways.

After Saturday's win, he told that his questions to them had been answered.

"Today we played a really good game, good performance, good football but what I wanted to see today was the right spirit, the right character, the right desire to fight, to win the ball, win duels against a team that