By Samuel A. April 13, 2025
Wolves cruise through Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday afternoon with a stellar performance to win 4-2 at Molineux, making it their fourth successive win. Guglielmo Vicario parried an early free kick, which went onto the path of Ait-Nouri, and the Wolves’ wing back made no mistake, volleying home after 85 seconds. Spurs should have been punished again when Nelson Semedo intercepted Vicario’s pass, but Strand Larsen missed a sitter that could’ve made it two nil in the early minutes.
The second Wolves goal came in not quite one after calamitous mistake from the goalkeeper when he could only palm the ball onto Spence. The own goal went against the full back, but eyes were on Vicario, as well as the coach, who keeps hitting new lows, with 17 league defeats this season.
It was, however, a better day for Vitor Pereira, whose much improved team now have four in a row, the first time Wolves have done that in the top flight since 1972. The call to leave Cunha on the bench despite being available again after suspension was justified.
There was initially some hope for Spurs when Semedo missed an attempted flick clearance to let Brennan Johnson’s cross ricochet off Tel, but Cristian Romero’s error allowed Ait-Nouri to feed Strand Larsen soon after to make it 3-1 to Wolves. Richarlison scored from close range late on but yet another Spurs mistake – this time by Lucas Bergvall – allowed Cunha to race through on his return and beat Vicario. There were just 101 seconds between the two goals, with spurs being their own worst enemy.
The West Midlands side moved up a place to 16th with any remaining fears of relegation dispelled not just by their points advantage but their fine form. Tottenham are now only one place and two points ahead of them. Everything hinges on Europe for Postecoglou.
“A disappointing result. It was a funny game because for the most part the football was decent considering all the changes we made. We controlled large parts of it. They are always a threat going forward but we obviously conceded some pretty poor goals. Obviously, we made some individual errors which is a bit unusual for us today and we got punished for them.”
On the errors by Romero and Bergvall, Postecoglou said: “It is not like they are doing it on purpose. Those two are pretty reliable in those situations. Today, it was just a collection of events that were unusual. That makes it really difficult. Could it have been a lack of focus? I don’t think so. When you look at those things in isolation, they are unusual for us and those players in those moments. It might happen once in a game, once in a season, but for us it happened multiple times in one game. But I don’t think it’s a lack of focus.”
Postecoglou also confirmed that Heung-Min Son missed the game with a knock and there was “no point” in risking him with that trip to Frankfurt coming up. Was it the right team selection, then? “You always try to make the right decisions. We rested a few and hopefully that leaves us in a good position on Thursday.”
