Tottenham head into the international break without a win in the Premier League after losing 3-2 at home to Aston Villa.
Roberto De Zerbi's expensively assembled side were hit by goals from Johan Manzambi, Nicolas Jackson and Emi Buendia which handed Villa an important win - their first of the season.
Both clubs had made slow starts to the new campaign after summer rebuilds and while Spurs had failed to score in four league fixtures.
Conor Gallagher at least got Spurs' first goal of the season late on, followed up by a Jan Paul van Hecke header, but it was nothing more than a consolation and too little too late.
After a bright start from Spurs where they forced Zion Suzuki into four saves inside the first 20 minutes, Villa hit Tottenham with a sucker punch - with captain Micky Van de Ven off the pitch after he took a whack to the face from Tyrone Mings, Manzambi fired in.
Spurs' goal drought appeared over on the hour mark when Sandro Tonali played in Andy Robertson and Mohammed Kudus poked in his cross, but VAR ruled it was offside.
Jackson then made it 2-0 by finding the bottom corner.
A wonderful effort by Buendia from 25 yards made the victory safe for Villa and sparked 'you're getting sacked in the morning' chants by the away faithful.
Ahead of the extended break, Spurs find themselves in the relegation zone and have only won five of their last 36 matches at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
"The pressure heats up," said former Tottenham defender Michael Dawson on Soccer Saturday.
"That's what happens when you finish 17th twice, you spend all this money, there's a huge expectation around the football club. I believed there was going to be a shift but when there isn't, it breeds and now, unfortunately, for Spurs, they've got three weeks to wait until the next game."
Spurs boss Roberto De Zerbi on the timing of the international break:
"Maybe it's better, I didn't speak with the players today because I didn't want to say anything.
"But the players who go with the national team they have to play, they have to work and the other players like Gallagher, Solanke, Tosin, Senesi, Savio for sure we have to work more because of the physical condition I didn't like in this game."
He added: "I'm very disappointed, very sad, very frustrated for the performance because we can't lose this game in this way, absolutely. We can't concede the second goal, we can't lose balance just because in the first half we are losing in the beginning of the second half.
"I spoke with the four attackers to use their heads calmly, play calm, play, enjoy, don't take risks. When we conceded the second goal it was incredible."
Villa boss Unai Emery speaking about the performances of Zion Suzuki and Nicolas Jackson:
"They are here for it. Their commitment to us, challenging themselves to achieve what we did before and replacing important players, is fantastic. But every player needs to understand how we can feel better collectively and how they can help us with their qualities, exploiting our best performance.
"Today, we made a clear step forward in improving that. Zion is maintaining the performance he showed before, and Jackson clearly improved from the previous matches. This is the way and the example of how he played."
