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Full Record of Spurs -v- Wolverhampton Wanderers

Prem         Pl   W   D   L   For- Ag  Pts
Home         11   4   2   5   18 - 17  14
Away         11   5   2   4   17 - 15  17
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Total(Prem)  22   9   4   9   35 - 32  31  1.41 Pts per game
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Div 1
Home         31  21   6   4   76 - 40  50
Away         31   9   7  15   46 - 60  27
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Total(Div 1) 62  30  13  19  122 -100  77
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Div 2
Home          6   5   1   0   18 -  9  11
Away          6   1   0   5    6 - 16   2
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Total(Div 2) 12   6   1   5   24 - 25  13
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Total(Prem)  22   9   4   9   35 - 32  31 
Total(Div 1) 62  30  13  19  122 -100  77
Total(Div 2) 12   6   1   5   24 - 25  13
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GRAND TOTAL  96  45  18  33  181 -157 121
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Last Six Premier League results:-

Spurs       -     LWWLWD
           
Spurs      1-4    Brighton
Spurs      3-0    Burnley
Man City   0-2    Spurs
Spurs      0-1    B'mouth
West Ham   0-3    Spurs
Brighton   2-2    Spurs

Wolves      -     DLLLLL

Wolves     1-1    Brentford
Wolves     0-4    Man City
B'mouth    1-0    Wolves
Wolves     2-3    Everton
Newcastle  1-0    Wolves
Wolves     1-3    Leeds

Pos         P  W  D  L   F-A   GD  Pts
 3. Spurs   5  3  1  1  10-3    7   10
20. Wolves  5  0  0  5  3-12   -9    0

A golden opportunity for Spurs

The visit of bottom club Wolves tomorrow night (8pm - SKY) is surely a golden opportunity for Spurs to maintain their top four place and to improve their already healthy goal difference. Spurs drew their first league game in 8 such matches last week and their six-game form guide has improved radically since the start of the season. Wolves will be desperate to gain at least a point having lost all five league games played so far, and in fact 8 of their last 9 league games.

Wolves haven't won a Premier League game since beating Leicester 3-0 at home in April. That win ended a run of six consecutive league wins including our own 4-2 defeat at Molineux.

Of the five other teams to lose their opening five Premier League matches, three finished bottom. Last week, when they lost 3-1 at home to Leeds, Wolves home fans chanted "You sold the team, now sell the club!" The source of such frustrations is probably many high profile departures in recent years including Ruben Neves (still playing in Saudi Arabia for Al-Hilal), Matheus Nunes (Man City), Pedro Neto (Chelsea) and most recently Matheus Cunha (Man Utd) and Rayan Ait-Nouri (Man City).

The quality of incoming players does not match up, although Jorgen Strand Larsen, who had a successful loan season last year has signed on full terms. Another striker - Nigerian Tolu Arokodare - signed from Genk after finishing last season as joint-top scorer in Belgian Pro League. Arokodare scored his first club goal against Everton on Tuesday night.

Despite their atrocious start to the league season, Wolves have beaten two Premier League sides - West Ham and Everton - to reach the fourth round of the Carabao Cup. Vitor Pereira's side will arrive at Tottenham in a more positive frame of mind after Tuesday's defeat of Everton. Wolves have drawn Chelsea at home in the next round, whereas we face a difficult trip to Newcastle.

This game was originally scheduled to be played on Sunday, but as we travel beyond the Arctic circle for Tuesday's Champions League game, the fixture became an 8pm Saturday match, which sadly is becoming a new SKY "norm." Our home match with Fulham has been moved to the same time at the end of November.

Both our games against Wolves last season were played after the appointment of Vitor Pereira, who proved to be instrumental in Wolves retaining their Premier League status, now in their eighth consecutive season, after two previous spells which lasted one and three seasons respectively.

Under Gary O’Neil last season, Wolves managed just two league wins. Pereira's side won a further 10 games. The Wolves coach was recently given a new three-year contract.

When they beat us on 13th April, Wolves won four successive top-flight matches for the first time since January 1972. That was during the time when, with Bill McGarry at the helm, Wolves competed with any team. They reached the 1972 UEFA Cup Final, when they lost the two-legged affair against Tottenham. Ait-Nouri's second minute goal against Spurs in last season's away game was Wolves' earliest in the Premier League (85 seconds).

Wolves are now unbeaten in five consecutive league games against Spurs something which hasn't happened for 50 years. The last time Spurs lost three consecutive league games at Molineux was in 1968. The last time (before April) Wolves scored four goals against Spurs in a match was 1957 when Wolves were a top team. Last season's home game ended in a 2-2 draw.

Jorgen Strand Larsen became just the second Wolves player to find the net in four consecutive Premier League games in our 4-2 defeat, emulating Henri Camara who scored in five successive matches in 2004. Camara only played in one season for Wolves and scored 7 league goals in 30 appearances. He subsequently played top flight games for Wigan, West Ham and Stoke City.

Spurs' one Premier League double over Wolves was in their first Premier League season in 2003/04. Glenn Hoddle was sacked early in the season. Glenn's one remaining managerial appointment would be with Wolves between December 2004 and July 2006 when he failed to get them back into the top flight.

Those double wins were a 5-2 at White Hart Lane in December 2003 when Robbie Keane scored a hat-trick against the team where he started his career. Robbie also scored in the away game on the last day of the season.

I am posting this preview before seeing any team news, but several key players were rested on Wednesday and all should return tomorrow, including Pape Sarr who missed the Doncaster game because of a slight thigh stretch. I feel confident that we will see a home win, perhaps by a 3-1 scoreline.

Michael Salisbury is our match referee. It will be his fifth Spurs game in the middle. Mr. Salisbury last refereed Spurs when we beat Southampton 3-1 in April. His one Premier League game this season was Burnley v Sunderland. Mr Salisbury was stood down for the Liverpool-Arsenal game after the PGMOL announced that as VAR he had incorrectly disallowed a Fulham goal against Chelsea.

Did you know? - Mark Lazarus, who died in July, played 9 times for Stan Cullis's Wolves in 1961, scoring three goals. He didn't get on with the "regimental" Cullis, and was signed for the second time by QPR. In his third spell with QPR (managed by Alec Stock), Lazarus scored the winning goal in a 3-2 win over West Brom in the 1967 League Cup Final. That QPR team included Rodney Marsh and future Spur Roger Morgan.

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