Tottenham continued to struggle at home after midweek Europa League games as they went down 2-1 to Stoke City.

Bojan gave Stoke an early lead after six minutes with a low drive. Jonathon Walters doubled the away teams lead with relative ease.

Nacer Chadli pulled a goal back with thirteen minutes remaining to set up a grandstand finish.

Spurs were reduced to ten men with six minutes remaining as Kyle Naughton send Victor Moses tumbling as he bared down on goal.

Spurs had failed to learn their lessons from defeats against West Brom and Newcastle as they created very little.

Harry Kane was given a starting role after many called for the young Englishman to get more game time following his rich vein of form.

The home side almost hit the front early on, a driving run from Chadli who dinked his cross for Kane at the back post but the young striker made a mess of his diving header.

Stoke’s opener was all too easy, in a similar way to Newcastle’s equaliser and West Brom’s winner at White Hart Lane; Spurs fell asleep.

Former Barcelona man Bojan picked up the ball just inside the Spurs half and breezed unchallenged towards the edge of the box before powering his low shot into the net.

The home fans grew impatient as the half wore on, an aimless long ball from skipper Younes Kaboul was met with boos as the attacking players continued to shy away from taking responsibility.

Pochettino’s sides are renowned for free flowing football but Spurs were anything but that for most of the game.

The visitors were in dreamland after 32 minutes as they doubled their lead with even more ease than they opened the scoring.

A clearance header from Ryan Shawcross on the halfway line found Mame Diouf in acres of space just inside the box who side-footed a cross for an unmarked Walters to tap home.

The complete ease of the opening two goals typified Tottenham’s performances at White Hart Lane this season so far.

Spurs continued to look lacklustre in the second half and it took more than ten minutes to register their first real chance, a flicked header from Kane which failed to trouble Asmir Begovic.

A thunderous drive from Moses on the left wing flashed past Lloris’ post.

Begovic had rarely been called into action but he produced a fine save from an Erik Lamela free kick.

Spurs found a way back into the game moments later when Danny Rose teed up a cross to the back post where Chadli fired in a rasping volley with thirteen minutes remaining.

However the comback charge never materialised and Tottenham were reduced to ten men when Naughton cynically brought down Moses.

Substitute Stephen Ireland almost made it 3-1 after a comical error from Frederico Fazio who headed the ball into the path of the Stoke man, but his well hit volley was smartly saved by Lloris.

Substitute Emmanuel Adebayor could have levelled in injury time but his attempted header was wayward.

Loud boos at the full time whistle were drowned out by rather loud music coming on immediately over the sound system.

Spurs have now won just two of their last nine in the league and are six points worse off than last season.

Pochettino's side has just five points more than Tottenham's worse start to a season in 2008, where Juande Ramos was sacked after eight games.