Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head

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Wolves are unbeaten in their last four league games against Tottenham (W3 D1), last having a longer run between May 1968 and February 1970 (5).

Tottenham have lost their last two away league games against Wolves, as many as in their previous 12 (W8 D2). They last lost three consecutive league visits to Molineux between 1964 and 1968.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have won each of their last three Premier League games – with no side currently enjoying a longer ongoing winning run in the competition. Wolves last won four successive matches in the top-flight in January 1972.

Only the bottom two sides, Southampton (13) and Leicester (11), have lost more Premier League away games this season than Tottenham Hotspur (9). Not since 2008-09 have Spurs lost more away league games in a single campaign (11), while they last lost as many as 10 of their opening 16 matches on the road in a league season in 2003-04 (11).

Since Vítor Pereira’s first game in charge in December, only five sides have won more Premier League games than Wolves (7). They’ve won as many of his 15 league games in charge as predecessor Gary O’Neil managed in his final 34 (7).

No sides have seen more goals in their Premier League games this season than both Tottenham Hotspur (103 – 58 for, 45 against) and Wolves (102 – 43 for, 59 against). Indeed, only table-topping Liverpool (72) have scored more goals than Spurs (58) in the division this term, while only the current bottom three sides have conceded more than Wolves (59).

Excluding penalties, only Leicester City and Liverpool (both 4) have scored fewer goals from set-pieces in the Premier League this season than Wolves (5), who have also conceded a league-high 20 goals from non-penalty set plays in the division this term.

Jørgen Strand Larsen has scored in each of Wolves’ last three Premier League games (4 goals); the only player to score in 4+ consecutive appearances in the competition for the club is Henri Camara, who scored in five in a row from March to April 2004.

Tottenham Hotspur’s Brennan Johnson has 11 Premier League goals this season; the only Welsh players to score more in a 38-game season in the competition are John Hartson (15 in 1997-98), Nathan Blake (12 in 1997-98), Craig Bellamy (13 in 2005-06), and Gareth Bale (21 in 2012-13).

Tottenham’s Dominic Solanke leads all players in the Premier League this season for both pressures applied in the final third (496) and off-the-ball runs into the opposition’s box (273), with Wolves’ Jørgen Strand Larsen behind him in second for the latter (262).

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