TOTTENHAM will be hoping to capitalise on their monumental first-day win over Manchester City by beating Wolves when they travel to Molineux this afternoon.
Spurs boss Nuno Espirito Santo will return to the Midlands for the first time since he left Wolves, while Harry Kane will start from the bench for the Portuguese manager.
- Start time: 2pm BST
- TV/Live stream: No broadcaster
- Wolves XI: Sa, Semedo, Kilman, Coady, Saiss, Marcal, Moutinho, Neves, Trincao, Jimenez, Traore
- Tottenham XI: Lloris, Tanganga, Sanchez, Dier, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Skipp, Dele, Lucas Moura, Bergwijn, Son
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LONDON CALLING
That’s all we’ve got time for at Molineux.
We’ll be back on Thursday night to see if the Spurs youngsters can overhaul a one-goal deficit against Pacos de Ferreira in the Conference League.
Now, we’re heading off to Spurs’ North London rivals Arsenal to see how they can get on against Chelsea and Romelu Lukaku.
KANE-D
So here’s how Harry Kane’s afternoon went.
He will be delighted with the reception from the Spurs fans though.
FORWARD THINKING
Nuno Espirito Santo has had his say on a potential injury for Son Heung-min and opened the door to Harry Kane staying at the club.
The Spurs boss said of Son: “I am sorry I cannot answer. In the warm up he had a strange feeling and he was OK to play. Let’s assess him now.”
And of the England captain, he commented: “He can still improve, we are not putting a bar on it. He is getting better.”
DOUBLED DUTCH-ED
Here’s the moment Steven Bergwijn took two Wolves players out of the game before setting up Harry Kane.
A really good effort from the Dutchman today.
HAR RAISING
If it was a final appearance for Harry Kane, he will be pleased it has ended with a win.
The England captain was given rapturous applause from the Spurs fans at the end of the match.
Could he yet stay?
HEUNG IN THERE
Tottenham have the win but fans may have been concerned by quite a rare sight – Son Heung-min being replaced by Harry Kane.
The Korean was moving awkwardly as he was taken off and would be a huge loss if he were to face a spell on the sidelines.
It will be interesting to hear what Nuno says.
EXPECTED GOALS
The expected goals from Molineux show Wolves should have been able to earn a draw.
They will no doubt look at Adama Traore’s one-on-one which was saved by Hugo Lloris as the moment they should have taken something from the game.
MATCH STATS
Wolves had an incredible 25 shots at Molineux today but it’s Spurs who come away with the points.
Bruno Lage’s men drop to 17th in the table after a second successive 1-0 loss and know they need to improve their final ball and finishing.
Tottenham move up to third, where they will stay if Chelsea fail to beat Arsenal.
BACKS TO THE WALL
It’s a Tottenham victory that Nuno’s predecessor Jose Mourinho would be proud of.
An early penalty from Dele Alli proved decisive as Spurs dug in and clung on for the rest of the match.
Nuno will be disappointed to have seen his midfield so frequently overrun by Wolves but delighted with the way his defence hung in there and restricted the home side to very few clear cut chances.
Wolves look good enough to stay up but nothing more unless they can get things clicking in the final third.
FULL TIME: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
89: TOTTENHAM SUBSTITUTION
Steven Bergwijn is replaced by Harry Winks.
Just three minutes of stoppage time are added on, to boos from the home crowd.
87: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Adama Traore beats two men again and finally aims a cross exactly where he wants it, at Raul Jimenez’s feet.
However the Mexican steps on the ball and can only fire into a defender.
84: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Eric Dier with a fantastic chance to make the points safe.
The England international latches onto a corner to aim a close range header towards goal but Jose Sa keeps it out.
82: WOLVES SUBSTITUTIONS
Roman Saiss is replaced by Fabio Silva.
Francisco Trincao is replaced by Rayan Ait-Nouri.
80: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
A first chance for Harry Kane.
Brilliant work from Steven Bergwijn who produces an excellent shimmy to take two Wolves defenders out of the game.
The Dutchman then plays the England captain through but Jose Sa comes out quickly to save.
If he had scored, VAR may well have ruled it offside.
78: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Dele Alli is tackled cleanly and tries to buy a foul but the referee rightly waves play on.
Marcal then fires just wide from range.
75: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Another chance for Wolves as Dendoncker heads just wide.
Adama Traore still having a free reign down the left hand side but he can never quite get his radar right with the crosses.
HARRY UP
The moment Spurs fans wouldn’t have expected to see again.
Harry Kane takes to the field in a Tottenham shirt.
72: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Harry Kane replaces Son Heung-min while Leandro Dendoncker comes on for Joao Moutinho for Wolves.
🚨HARRY KANE IS ON FOR SPURS!
69: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
It looks like we’re about to see Harry Kane…
The England captain is off the bench and warming up.
A very positive reception from the visiting Spurs fans as they belt out ‘Harry Kane, he’s one of our own!’
67: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Another chance for the hosts.
Traore causes havoc down the left and almost lulls Giovani Lo Celso into giving away a penalty.
He overcooks the cross but finds Trincao, who squares for Moutinho to blast just over from the edge of the box.
66: TOTTENHAM SUBSTITUTION
It’s a South American for a South American.
Lucas Moura is replaced by Giovani Lo Celso
64: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Lloris finds Bergwijn on the left, who fires a powerful shot towards Sa’s left-hand corner, which is saved by the Portuguese goalkeeper.
Son pops up for the rebound but the former Olympiacos stopper is equal to that as well.
63: WOLVES 0 SPURS 1
Harry Kane looking on from the bench.
At what point does Nuno consider bringing the England captain on to relieve the pressure.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
