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Tottenham vs Wolves


Tottenham Hotspur entertain Wolves on Saturday, as Spurs look to keep tabs with Manchester City and Liverpool for the top places.

Spurs have had a fantastic week and have been dubbed as potential title challengers after recent results.

Whereas Wolves will be looking to regain some form that they showed before their loss to Liverpool last Friday.

 

Team News

Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli will undergo a late fitness test on the hamstring injury he sustained against Everton recently.

Serge Aurier is back in training - however, Mousa Dembele, Eric Dier, Jan Vertonghen and Victor Wanyama are all unavailable.

Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo has confirmed Diogo Jota is not fit enough to return just yet.

Leander Dendoncker and Kortney Hause will both be assessed after they missed the match against Fulham with an illness.

 

The Managers

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has admitted his team need to prepare physically and mentally for the second-half of the season.

"We need to prepare not only physically but also our minds to be strong because it's going to be tough to compete in the second-half of the season," Pochettino said.

"It's so important for the team that we are fighting in a very good position. We were talking last season was a fantastic season. Now we're in four competitions, when last season we were in three (at this stage)."

Wolves head coach Nuno Espirito Santo has insisted his team won't "change their identity" despite coming up against an in-form Spurs team.

"We've played already many games against top teams where we have shown that we don't change our identity," Santo insisted.

"We are trying to build something, so when you try to build you do not look at the game like, what is the best way to get a result.

"We've shown in previous games that we attack, we have shots on goals against heavy teams, even so the building process goes this way so the way we approach against Tottenham is going to be the same."

 

Match Stats

- Wolves have only won two of their previous nine Premier League matches against Tottenham.

- They are without a win in their last five league meetings; with a 1-0 win at Molineux in 2010 being the last one.

- Wolves have just one win in their last 12 away league matches against Spurs in all competitions.

- Tottenham are undefeated against a newly-promoted team since 2012 - a run that stretches back 39 matches.

- Matt Jarvis was the last English player to score a Premier League goal for Wolves, also back in 2012.

 

Betting Odds

- Tottenham Hotspur: 2/5

- Draw: 19/5

- Wolverhampton Wanderers: 17/2

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