Tottenham took to the training pitches at Hotspur Way to go through their final preparations ahead of the Europa League semi-final first leg against Bodo/Glimt.
With the match against the Norwegian side the huge date on Spurs' calendar to start next month, Ange Postecoglou and his coaches put the north London club's squad through their paces in the sunshine at the Enfield training complex ahead of the first leg at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Our Spurs reporter Alasdair Gold was watching the opening stages of the session at Hotspur Way as the media were allowed to observe the first 15 minutes and here's what he saw.
No Son
The obvious first observation was the absence of Tottenham captain Son Heung-min. The South Korean star has missed the past four matches with a foot injury and a fifth game out looks likely now after he was not involved in the session, certainly in those opening 15 minutes.
Postecoglou had said that Son was back on the grass last week and was improving but then sounded less positive after Sunday's defeat at Liverpool when he said it would be touch and go over whether the skipper played any part in the first leg and more feasibly could be back for the second leg next week.
If Son is out then it will be on the vice-captains Cristian Romero and James Maddison to step up in his absence to lead the team along with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario. Long-term absentee Radu Dragusin was the only other player missing from the session on Wednesday as even the unregistered players took part in the session.
Soaked Bassong
Before the players had come out, some of the Spurs content producing team were setting up an interview with former Tottenham defender Sebastian Bassong on the grass beside the training pitch.
However, the group had not accounted for a quick burst of the sprinklers on the grass to keep it slick in the hot temperatures. One of the sprinklers duly turned in their direction, sending water over them all, including the 38-year-old ex-Cameroon international.
We know people often play in sprinklers in the sunshine in their gardens, but this was not exactly the plan on this occasion.
Familiar pairings
Whenever footballers are asked to pair up for drills you can guarantee that, just like in the playground, all the friends immediately gravitate towards each other.
That meant that when the Spurs stars were asked to pair up for a cushioned volley drill, the usual duos emerged as James Maddison and Brennan Johnson quickly moved together along with the Swedes Lucas Bergvall and Dejan Kulusevski, Spaniards Pedro Porro and Sergio Reguilon, South Americans Cristian Romero and Rodrigo Bentancur as well as Archie Gray and one of his friendship group Ben Davies, while plenty of the French-speaking players paired up.
Scary Romero
After that drill and another where the players had to run and jump over mini-hurdles facing different directions, they formed rondos in a separate area of the training pitch.
There are always players you don't want to face in a rondo, essentially like a schoolyard piggy-in-the-middle with various rules, with Erik Lamela always striking fear in the past into his former Spurs team-mates and the need for shinpads.
One of the groups that formed on Wednesday in the Enfield heat was a fearsome one with powerful tacklers Cristian Romero, Kevin Danso, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall and the determined Dejan Kulusevski among others.
Romero is a purveyor of the sliding tackle in rondos, even with the media watching, but on this occasion he kept it clean, other than a little shove on Bentancur to let him know he was there. Nobody seemed to want to get the Argentinean in the middle but he did and won the ball back numerous times, with the fear factor no doubt playing a part.
Kulusevski was probably the most animated, going in hard but fair on Gray at one point as he looked to set the tone in the group.
No letting up on Lucas
He might have just penned a new six-year contract at Tottenham but there was no time for celebration for Bergvall as his team-mates ensured his feet were still firmly on the ground.
The 19-year-old was buzzing around the rondo with plenty of energy in the morning sun only to have Pedro Porro fire one pass straight between his legs to a team-mate on the other side.
Unusually in such a group, there were no celebrations from the Spaniard or banter sent the way of the Swede, which perhaps shows just how focused the players are on the task ahead.