Highs and lows in October

I regret that due to the fact that in May 2018 I discovered that I had mistakenly overwritten my original account of October this summary does not have the freshness of the original article. The statistics, including the accumulated appearances and grades of individual players up to this point have been retrieved and are accurate to the best of my knowledge.

For the record (and you can find the individual match reports here) October featured the absolute highs of a magnificent away team performance in the Champions League game against Real Madrid where Fernando Llorente got a rare start (only his second of the season) and played really well next to Harry Kane.

The opening game of the month for us was against Bournemouth at Wembley and this saw our first Premier League win at our temporary home. The "Wembley Hoodoo" was surely laid to rest the day that Liverpool came to town and we took them by storm, winning 4-1 with goals by Kane (2), Son, and Dele Alli. Writing now with the benefit of hindsight, and the knowledge that we would beat Real Madrid at home on 1st November, I can say that we beat both the eventual Champions League finalists (and well) this season.

The real low point of the month was surrendering a two goal lead to West Ham who beat us 3-2 in the Carabao Cup at Wembley. The trend of lack of intent and focus on the domestic cup competitions continued, and we had to suffer the gloating of an enemy and a poor team this season. Harry Kane was out, and missed for both the West Ham game, and defeat at Old Trafford, where Martial scored a late winner after Dele Alli had failed to convert a good chance set up by Eriksen.

Hugo Lloris was your chosen player of the month following man of the match performances against both Bournemouth and Real Madrid. Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Davinson Sanchez, Harry Kane and Harry Winks all scored highly this month. Kane scored twice in just the one game against Liverpool, but at the end of this month topped the Premier League score charts with 8 league goals. He had by this time already scored 17 goals for club and country.

That Liverpool game saw us get a record Premier League crowd at the time of 80,827 (we would beat that later in the season), and have our best start of a Premier League season with 20 poin ts after 9 games.

· Review the 2017-18 Premier League season here

Don't forget to check out the players' current figures re. appearances, cards, goals scored and accumulated ratings to date at the bottom of this page.

...if you want to read reports of the matches played during this season, then links are on the Spurs Odyssey Fixtures/Reports page here. By working your way back through the previous month's figures, you can review the performances over the last 17 years!