Conte’s Tottenham evoke spirit of Nuno with goalless draw at Everton

The energetic manager watched his side fail to have a shot on target in his Premier League comeback at Goodison Park

Tributes to Nuno Espiríto Santo had been few and far between this week until Antonio Conte found a fitting way to mark his predecessor’s reign. In the Italian’s first Premier League match in charge of Tottenham, just as in the Portuguese’s last, Spurs had no shots on target. Perhaps Nuno nodded on approvingly from afar.

The paradox is that 0-0 felt the definitive Nuno scoreline, but his Tottenham never secured a stalemate in his ill-fated reign. Instead, after the breathless excitement of Conte’s bow against Vitesse came a game where, although Giovani Lo Celso struck the post, the only efforts on target came from Everton’s Ben Godfrey and Tom Davies. Suffice to say it was not quite what Conte planned.