Real Madrid will have plenty of excess baggage when they check-in for their flight to London this week.
They arrive with the worst start to a league season since 2012-13 – they have picked up just 20 points in 10 games and are eight behind leaders Barcelona.
The last time they started this badly things ended badly too. The team won nothing and Jose Mourinho lost his job. Zindedine Zidane still has credit in the bank but Mauricio Pochettino could change that on Wednesday.
Spurs might be missing Harry Kane but Real Madrid are wondering where the real Cristiano Ronaldo has gone and are also missing the injured Gareth Bale, Dani Carvajal and Keylor Navas and the out of sorts Marcelo and Karim Benzema.