Tottenham Hotspur produced another week from the drawer marked 'chaos' as Antonio Conte's men went from delight to despair.
Spurs went to Elland Road and triumphed 4-0 against Leeds United, with Marcelo Bielsa losing his job the next day.
Conte then took his side to Middlesbrough and a sub-par Tottenham were dumped out of the FA Cup by the Championship side with a 1-0 scoreline in front of a rocking Riverside Stadium.
It maintained Spurs' ability to win one, lose one, which has rolled through most of 2022 so far.
"The truth is that today we are talking about a defeat. The last game we won, two games ago we lost, three games ago we won, and I think that I can't hide the reality no," said Conte.
"The reality that we are having too many ups and downs. We have to try and work, and I think this is a problem now and maybe also in the past.
"In my opinion there is only one way to try to improve, and to continue to work many aspects and to persevere. To be patient because you need to have patience in this process, and to hope in the future the situation will be much better and not to wait for a long time."
Our Spurs correspondents Alasdair Gold and Rob Guest dissected the defeat at Middlesbrough and some of the poor individual performances within it in the latest episode of their Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham podcast.
They also spoke about the future with Conte and the worrying future without him and what Spurs chairman Daniel Levy must change about Spurs to keep the Italian happy and at the helm.
You can find all of that in the latest episode of Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham by clicking right here with links to most podcast platforms.
