It may not be much but perhaps, at last, there is light at the end of the tunnel for this Tottenham Hotspur team.
After winning the Europa League last season and hiring a new manager, there was great hope that Spurs would, well, stop being Spursy.
That, however, has not changed. Not even a year after that continental showpiece, the Lilywhites are on their third manager in the space of barely 12 months.
How quickly things change, eh? The Igor Tudor reign had started disastrously and after that 5-2 defeat against Atletico, the Croat looked like a dead man walking.
His position looked untenable until a 1-1 draw with Liverpool. It shouldn't do much to paper over the crack but it bought the interim boss some time.
It's time that didn't look likely when another goalkeeper error threatened to derail Spurs again.
Spurs goalkeepers continue to be a problem
In midweek Tudor made the incredibly bold call to drop Guglielmo Vicario from the starting lineup. This would be a big call regardless of the time of year or opposition but considering he was handing Antonin Kinsky his Champions League debut and in Madrid no less, it felt like a seismic moment.
Unfortunately for Tudor, a 17 minute period of hell played out in which Spurs went 3-0 down after two horrendous mistakes by the goalkeeper.
Not even the most brutal of Spurs fans would have predicted what was to follow. The manager subbed him off without even a quarter of the game gone.
For Vicario, he knew his place was now safe but that did little to help his performance at Anfield on Sunday night.
Dominik Szoboszlai has been the free-kick king of the Premier League and he duly banged home his fourth of the campaign at the weekend.
Still, he did so with a little help from Tottenham's Italian calamity between the sticks. Szoboszlai's free-kick was by no means in the corner but Vicario, in his desperate attempts to stop the ball, rather made a fool of himself flailing at the shot when he could and should have got a stronger hand do it.
So, it was another nightmare in the Spurs goal but thankfully for them it did not undo them too bad. A late equaliser from Richarlison rescued a precious point in the battle to beat the drop.
Spurs defender is letting his teammates down
Tudor's team headed to Merseyside without 14 first-team players, largely due to injury. For Spurs to ever get relegated you feel the stars have to align and that is what is occuring this term.
Everything has to go wrong and it seemingly is. They cannot keep a consistent group of players fit and most importantly, aren't exactly playing very good football.
At the centre of their woes over the last few years has been the defence. Remember that game when Spurs were camped on their own half way line during the Ange Postecoglou days? It's hard to forget.
Well, Frank did initially made them more organised. Tottenham notably kept five clean sheets in their first seven games of the season but it was all down hill from there.
Now, the Londoners are without a Premier League shutout since the 0-0 with Burnley right at the beginning of 2026. It's safe to say the defence is a mess and nothing epitomised that more than what occured in that room that night.
While you can excuse a patched together Spurs backline given the volume of injuries they have, you cnnot excuse the performance of the captain on the day, Pedro Porro.
This has arguably been the Spaniard's worst term at the club since signing. He has started 24 of the 30 league matches and has missed matches with regular intervals.
Previously linked with a return to Manchester City, that transfer feels like a rather long way away now, particularly when taking into account the display he delivered on Sunday.
Fielded at right-back with the young Souza ahead of him, it was not a great night for Spain international at all who was run ragged by Rio Ngumoha.
With Max Dowman scoring for Arsenal and Ngumoha starting for the Reds, it was certainly a day for the teenagers but that was not muisc to the ears of Porro.
He will likely go to bed having nightmares of the day before with the young Liverpool winger terrorising poor Porro all game long. Several times the Reds academy graduate got the better of him, attempting a whopping seven dribbles and winning every single one of them, per Sofascore.
Six of those dribbles were up against Porro who was left in the dust on several occasions by the 17-year-old who was on fire out on the left wing.
To make matters, Spurs' captain for the day won just one of his nine duels. To put it bluntly, this was a performance right out of the Radu Dragusin playbook, out of the Vicario playbook. Essentiall, you've sadly become a liability to the football club.
For several years now, Dragusin has been delivering below par performance and despite there being so many players out injured, he does not look fit to wear the shirt.
Porro might not be quite as disastrous as that at the back, but his sad regression has been rather remarkable.
With Archie Gray coming through the ranks and Djed Spence so often preffered on the left, now is the time to invest in their futures on the right over Porro. They may well be raw but it simply cannot get any worse right now.