But within the opening minutes it was clear they were going to cause Spurs problems.
Detached, peripheral and bound for the departure lounge sooner or later, Lamela is the poster boy for Spurs' problems.
Gokdeniz Karadeniz caused Spurs problems with his raids down the right and Alan Kasaev fired narrowly over from one of his pull-backs.
A lot of Spurs' problems this campaign have been in front of goal as, with last season's top scorer Gareth Bale now at Real Madrid, only Sunderland and Crystal Palace had scored fewer in the top flight.
Spurs' problem was never about creating openings, with the first of many arriving after seven minutes when Gylfi Sigurdsson headed straight at Jamie Ashdown from 10 yards out, but taking them was a different matter.
Mr. Smith said that the guarantee has been widely in effect for only a few weeks and that he can't predict what sort of problems may spur a complaint.
Though neither Mr. Mayo's report nor the new documents contained stunning disclosures about Citigroup, any hint of deepening problems can spur nervous investors to sell Citigroup's shares, analysts and investors said.
But it is doubtful that the modern-day appointment problems can spur the outrage generated by "The Treason of the Senate," the 1906 series of Cosmopolitan articles by David Graham Phillips.
The new law, known as Reach, would place the burden of proof of safety on the producers before its sale, rather than waiting for problems to spur regulation later.
Fears of renewed tensions between Latvia's linguistic groups, even if overdone, might spur officials into tackling problems of integration they have too often ignored.If so, that would be a happy consequence of a war that has deeply unnerved the region.
