The jury’s still out on what type of season Spurs are looking ahead to.
The Lilywhites have got back to winning ways - most recently with an away victory at struggling Huddersfield Town - after a tense period of suffering three successive losses that made many question the club and the coach’s credentials to challenge for honours.
That run was the first and worst of manager Mauricio Pochettino’s tenure as team chief at the club, and an unwanted record that hadn’t been breached since 2014 when Tim Sherwood was at the helm.
A tough meeting with Barcelona awaits this week in the Champions League and this will no doubt provide a better opportunity to see the measure of this Spurs side.
However one man who won’t be taking to the pitch at Wembley is the England midfielder Dele Alli, in what is likely to be a severe blow to Spurs’ aspirations.
Per BBC Sport, 22-year-old Alli has suffered a recurrence of a hamstring problem which means he will sit out the match against the blaugrana.
Alli didn’t feature at all in weekend’s 2-0 win at the Terriers, having not recovered to make the squad. He has also not scored in the brand-spanking new 18/19 Premier League season since Spurs’ opening day victory over Newcastle United.
Defender Jan Vertonghen and Moussa Dembele remain doubts to play Wednesday night’s game.
Ideally Pochettino would like to field a full-strength side with all guns blazing against a team that have lost just one of their last 11 Champions League matches against English opposition, and a team that he himself has only beaten once.
Spurs got their Champions League campaign off to a stuttering start in a reunion with old foes Inter Milan.
The Premier League side threw away a 1-0 lead in the dying minutes of the game at the San Siro to hand all three points to the nerazzurri and leave Tottenham - for now - outside of the knockout places in Group B.