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James Maddison and Brennan Johnson headed to the darts to let off steam but Tottenham Hotspur will need more than a night at Alexandra Palace to give their nose-diving season a lift.

Ange Postecoglou gave his squad Monday and Tuesday off after Wolverhampton Wanderers’ late equaliser made it one win in seven league games for Spurs on Sunday, with the plan always to use this rare period without a midweek fixture to try to recuperate. “The whole group probably needs a couple of days just to get away from everything and recover, because it’s been fairly intense for a real small core group of players,” Postecoglou said.

Dominic Solanke, Dejan Kulusevski, Archie Gray and Radu Dragusin have all been used relentlessly over the Christmas period