52 min Brentford are in the ascendancy now, Schade the principal danger, and he nips into the box looking to flight a ball to the back post … but puts too much on it.

51 min I don’t get why professionals aren’t working hard enough to be comfy using their weaker foot if they need to. And I feel the same way about dead-ball delivery: if you work at it, there’s no reason you can’t get good.

50 min Dmagaard leaps to get first foot to a bouncing ball before flicking outside him to Mbuemo … who might shoot but on his weaker right foot, instead looks to square, … problem being there’s no one there to collect.

48 min …but again, it’s a Spurs head making first contact, the ball eventually ending up behind for a goalkick. The visitors have defended those situations very well indeed – so far.

47 min Brentford win a free-kick out on the left and Mbeumo will swing out…

47 min It’s Bergvall’s 19th birthday today, which sounds fair enough until you realise that means he was born in 2006, the bounder.

46 min And ignore me, obviously – the change is, we’re told tactical. I’m surprised by that, but perhaps Postecoglou wants to protect what he has.

46 min We go again…

Change for Spurs: Bergvall replaces Moore, who must have a knock – I thought he was Spurs’ best player.

Half-time entertainment:

HALF-TIME: Brentford 0-1 Spurs

45+1 min The corner is cleared to edge, where Mbeumo lurks, and he hurls himself into an instashot that Richarlison heads clear. I’m not sure how much choice he had about it, but theat’s brave defending; rather him than me.

45 min We’ll have two added minutes.

45 min A ball infield from the touchline sees Lewis-Potter find Mbuemo, who whacks at the nearest defender, winning a corner.

44 min Nice from Spurs, working Richarlison free down the left, but Schade does well to get back at him and make the challenge. Spurs want a penalty, but there’s nowt doing.

44 min Someone please confirm that Kinsky’s nickname is Kinsky-y.

43 min Brentford win a free-kick way out on the left, 45 yards from goal, and send forward their units, but Kinsky’s punch is good enough and Spurs clear.

41 min Brentford work Mbuemo free and as he accelerates towards halfway, Son hauls him down and is booked.

41 min On which point I’m surprised that delivery is only just back in the game. George Graham’s Arsenal used it as their first-choice option because when done properly – and having Steve Bould there was extremely conducive to that – it’s almost impossible to defend.

40 min This time he goes near post and Kulusevski arrives first, but his flick goes over the top.

39 min Spurs win another left-wing corner…

38 min Spours almost make it two! Moore, their best player so far, carries off the right and into the box, slipping a clever reverse-pass down the side for Kulusevski. He does’t have a look across – if he had, he might’ve shot – instead screwing a square-pass to no one, Richarlison again on his heels.

36 min Richarlison overcommits to a tackle, studs up, but there’s no contact so he escapes censure.

34 min Spurs fancy this now and Kulusevski sets Moore away; he speed-weaves into the box and veers outside Collins who shoves him in the back, the kind of challenge on the ref’s blind side with which you’d get away pre-VAR. Spurs want a penalty, rightly so, but there’s no intervention. I guess for those of us who’d have binned VAR before it arrived, that’s a good thing, but I’d be keen to see the working of whoever didn’t think that was a clear and obvious error.

33 min For the first time, Brentford find space inside the Spurts box, Janelt unable to wedge a cross into the middle, then Ajer burrows into Davies and Damsgaard’s shot – a tricky one to take on, given how much the ball is spinning – is palmed behind. The corner comes to nowt.

32 min Damsgaard into Lewis-Potter, who turns beautifully and works it wide, but again Spurs defend the box well when the ball comes in, then again when Brentford hit the by-line.

31 min Immediately, Brentford win a corner of their own, but a huge header from Davies sends the ball well away. I didn’t think he’d be as good a centre-back as he is, but he’s developed into a solid option in that position.

GOAL! Brentford 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Janelt own goal 29)

28 min Spurs win a corner down the left…

27 min Moore has been Spurs’ most lively attacker and he turns up on the right but can’t force anything and Brentford counter, Norgaard working it out to Mbeumo on the right as is their wont. He control it well than cuts infield as is his wont, shooting low … and straight at Kinsky.

25 min Moore makes space down the left and whips in a decent cross, but Brentford get it away. Their centre-backs are excellent box defenders.

24 min Thinking about Postecoglou, it seems to me he’s suffering from the same ailment which afflicted Erik ten Hag at Man United. Discovering that what worked with the best players and most money in a less good league doesn’t work in the Prem, where Ten Hag was unable to find a compromise or alternative, he’s unwilling – though he was given a hint that he’d need to in advance by how poorly Celtic performed in Europe under him.

22 min Now pressure from Brentford, last-ditch defending from Spurs repelling a ball into the box, then Janelt swings in a terrific cross that Wissa heads over.

2o min Talking of Gray, he’s done so well to adapt to a roll for which he’s not obviously suited, but again I need to interrupt myself because Spurs attack down the left, Spence crossing well … only to find Richarlison on his heels, reacting once the ball has been delivered. Moore, though, intelligently works it back to Kulusevski, who shoots low and hard … but Collins blocks well.

19 min We’ve barely seen Spurs front three, the first time I’ve mentioned Son to mention he’s not been mentioned. Meantime, Schade wriggles between weak challenges from Kulusevski and Davies, left side of the box, shooting directly into Gray’s shin.