Tottenham 0-0 Wolves
Wolves sporting their eye-catching purple away kit. One of my favs.
Here come the teams!
Sky Sports' Lewis Jones at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:
“The sheer weirdness of Spurs is summed up by the fact they have lost nine of their last 16 Premier League games but six of their seven wins this season have come by a three or more goal margin. Good luck trying to dissect that one.”
Son & Hwang factor...
There is a huge South Korean presence as always - here to cheer on Son Heung-Min. But they get the bonus of watching Son's international teammate Hwang Hee-Chan too, who starts for Wolves.
'Gimme, gimme, gimme a ginger from Sweden'
Sky Sports' Lewis Jones at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:
“As the DJ spins a bit of ABBA – Gimme, Gimme, my attention immediately draws to the man who that tune is sung to. Dejan Kulusevski has been Tottenham’s best player this season – by a mile. His attacking output has increased to match his insane workload off the ball. He’s a gem. If he plays well today, Spurs win.”
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Bentancur-Bissouma dynamic - will it work?
Sky Sports' Lewis Jones at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:
"I'm interested to see the dynamic in the Spurs midfield with both Rodrigo Bentancur and Yves Bissouma playing in there. Once again James Maddison has to settle for a place on the bench."
Dawson starts for Wolves
Wolves make three changes from the Manchester United win as Craig Dawson, Jean‐Ricner Bellegarde and Hwang Hee-Chan are handed starts.
Toti Gomes, Jorgen Strand Larsen and Gonçalo Guedes drop out.
Dragusin starts, Porro returns
Radu Dragusin has been passed fit to play for Tottenham meaning at least Spurs will have a natural centre-back playing this afternoon. He partners Archie Gray once again.
Yves Bissouma replaces Pape Sarr and Pedro Porro returns in two changes made.
Tottenham are missing Djed Spence (suspension), Micky Van De Ven (hamstring), Ben Davies (thigh), Richarlison (hamstring), Cristian Romero (thigh), Wilson Odobert (hamstring) and Guglielmo Vicario (ankle).
Tottenham team news - Dragusin starts!
Team to play Wolves: Forster; Porro, Dragusin, Gray, Udogie, Bissouma, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Johnson, Son, Solanke
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Wolves team news
Team to play Tottenham: Sa, Semedo, Doherty, Dawson, Bueno, Ait-Nouri, Andre, Gomes, Bellegarde, Cunha, Hwang
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Jones Knows: Back a heavy Spurs win
Sky Sports' betting expert Lewis Jones:
"If you fancy Tottenham, there is huge value in taking them to win on the handicap rather than just backing the 8/13 with Sky Bet for the home win. That price does look tight considering this Spurs team have won just three of their last 15 Premier League games. But under Ange Postecoglou, when Spurs win their style means they win by a big margin.
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"All their last eight Premier League wins have seen them prevail by two or more goals and, remarkably, seven of those wins have come with a three or more margin of victory.
"And although they've found a manager bounce, this Wolves defence is prone to a collapse - they have conceded an average of 2.04 goals in 2024 - the worst record of any ever-present Premier League team. Spurs to win by three or more goals, or -2 on the handicap, is the way to play at 7/2 with Sky Bet."
SCORE PREDICTION: 4-1
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No Dragusin?
Sky Sports' Lewis Jones at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:
"Although there have been some murmurings that Radu Dragusin trained yesterday, there was no sign of him as the Spurs players came out for the pre-match walk around the pitch. We'll know for sure his availability in about 10 minutes."
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Sky Sports' Lewis Jones at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:
"Always a pleasure to be reporting from this magnificent sporting venue - it’s a shame for the locals their football team doesn’t quite match up to the glorious surroundings.
"You’re always guaranteed a great time here though.
"Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs are the hottest ticket in town. This place will be packed to the rafters as usual.
"Spurs should have too much firepower for lowly Wolves but the visitors arrive in good spirits under a new manager whilst the atmosphere here at the moment is very edgy.
"Stay with us as we bring you all the action. Teams dropping shortly."
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Postecoglou searching for answers to injury crisis
Ange Postecoglou has revealed Tottenham are looking into why so many players have suffered injury setbacks this season.
Ben Davies is the latest to fall into that category, with the Welsh
international initially primed to return for Sunday's visit of Wolves but no longer available.
Davies suffered a setback in training this week, which means Spurs could be without a fit centre-back after Radu Dragusin was forced off in the latter stages of Thursday's 1-0 loss at Nottingham Forest with an ankle issue.
Postecoglou is already without first-choice central defenders Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven after both failed to make it through their comeback fixture against Chelsea on December 7.
"Yeah, that's been our major problem this year. Guys who are coming back from injury rather than us losing players as such," Postecoglou said.
"We're looking at those things and why they're happening. It's certainly happened too often this year where guys have come back and they're the ones who are missing.
"I think just about all of them, apart from Vic (Guglielmo Vicario), are recurrences of an injury.
"Even with Romero, it was a different injury but it's still a guy coming back, so it's something we're looking at."
Pereira: Ange is a manager with very offensive ideas
Wolves boss Vitor Pereira:
"I love, I love [Postecoglou's football]. I appreciate it a lot. We competed against each other in Asia. He was the manager of Yokohama Marinos and I was the manager of Shanghai SIPG in China. We played in Asian Champions League I think two or three times against each other.
"He is a manager with different ideas, very offensive ideas. It's a team that can score a lot of goals so we have to be at our best level to compete with them. The next game will be a very hard game for us."
Pereira: I eat, breathe, sleep football here!
Wolves boss Vitor Pereira:
"I remember the time when the Japanese players are very technical when you compare with the Chinese players. In the game we played the games together, the ball was always at the Yokohama Marinos' feet. They had something special and he made a fantastic work in Japan.
"Now, we face together here in England. The country of football. I said that here I can't see the sun, but I breathe, eat and see football."
Wolves braced for Cunha ban
Wolves boss Vitor Pereira:
"We are trying to prepare with other players [a team set up to be without Matheus Cunha, who is facing a potential suspension]. When it happens, we must be ready with other players. They are doing a good work and they are trying to understand this idea of what we want with and without the ball so they are waiting for their opportunity."