It was a case of two points dropped in the fight to avoid relegation from the Premier League for Tottenham on Monday night.
Spurs could only draw 1-1 with a Leeds United side who were already safe from relegation and with little to play for at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Victory would have taken Spurs four points clear of West Ham at the bottom of the table and all-but safe from the threat of relegation to the Championship.
As it was, Roberto De Zerbi's side were indebted to an incredible fingertip reaction save from Antonin Kinsky deep into injury-time at the end of the match to preserve the point.
Late drama at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
That means Spurs are just two points ahead of the Hammers in the battle to avoid the drop, with the two teams having just two games left to play.
The performance against the Whites was quite the come down from the one they produced in beating Aston Villa, although Spurs did create enough chances to win the game before that wonder save.
They also felt they should have had a penalty even deeper into injury-time when substitute James Maddison went down in the box under the challenge of Lukas Nmecha, with the Leeds star getting the faintest touch on the ball.
Maddison was making his first appearance of the season, having suffered an ACL injury during pre-season, and his cameo will come as a huge boost to De Zerbi ahead of the final two weeks of the campaign.
What will be an even bigger boost than that, however, is the fact that Maddison got more minutes in his legs than he was initially preparing for.
The England man has been on the bench for the last few games, although not taking any part in the action. Against Leeds, however, with Spurs needing a goal, De Zerbi felt the time was right to give him a few minutes at the end of the match to see if he could make any impact.
Maddison was introduced to a roaring crowd with 82 minutes already on the clock, expecting to get 10 to 15 minutes in the tank.
However, upon the end of the 90 minutes, the fourth official revealed that a whopping 13 minutes would be added on at the end of the match.
And because of the penalty incident and other substitutions, play actually went on until 106 minutes were on the clock.
That meant Maddison did not get the eight minutes he was planning, nor the 10 or 15 minutes he would have got with a normal amount of injury-time. Instead, he got 24 minutes into his legs.
Maddison was not supposed to play as much
De Zerbi said afterwards: "Great news for us. He is a different player as a quality, as a guy and he will be I hope crucial for us. Yesterday I spoke with him about his physical condition and about how many minutes he could play. He played more than what he said yesterday. We are happy for him."
That will prove to be a huge boost for De Zerbi, who would have been planning on building up his minutes as the games go along. Having amassed 24 minutes in the first game, Maddison could look to have at least a half in the next game against Chelsea, or potentially go to an hour, with a look at getting closer to the full 90 minutes against Everton on the final day of the season.
If Maddison is trusted to get a half or an hour under his belt, De Zerbi could shake up his forward line to give him more creativity against the Blues at Stamford Bridge next Tuesday, which could see Conor Gallagher dropped to the bench.