What actually happened with Harry Kane's USA trip and what Conte told Spurs stars after Brighton

This was a day for Tottenham Hotspur to learn their lessons as the pressure mounts in the Premier League run-in. Spurs have been flying in recent weeks with goals galore but they need to learn that not every side is going to give them the space they require to thrive.

It has been a different week for Tottenham and their head coach. Antonio Conte is used to being fully involved in training sessions and getting close to his players, in and around them and working with them one-to-one. Instead this week was spent with the Covid-hit Italian bellowing - as much as he could with a hoarse throat - from afar while his staff took the sessions.

He tested negative on Friday and decided to travel separately to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday morning, even though he was fine to go on the coach, taking that little extra precaution against passing it on to his players within the tighter confines of the vehicle.

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He was back in the big changing room though and on the bench and his bout of Covid did not appear to have calmed him down at all on the touchline. He was still surging around his technical area, pointing, shouting and gesturing and the crowd were singing his name just eight minutes in.

The crowd were also pumped up, with 58,685 people in good spirits from the warm-ups before the match and ready for some good football in the sunshine. Only the Tottenham players decided otherwise.

In complete contrast to their recovered 52-year-old head coach, the 14 Spurs players were collectively and mostly individually as flat as a pancake. They failed to register a single shot on target.

That Arsenal then went and messed up their own match at