Wolverhampton Wanderers

Gary O'Neil speaking to BBC Match of the Day after Wolves' win over Tottenham: "Pretty close [to perfect]. Disappointing lapse for the goal, similar to the one we conceded in the last minute against Manchester United but that is probably the only negative I can find. We were close to perfect. I am proud of the group. It is a tough place to come and I think we deserved to win the game.

"The way we got the goal wasn't how we looked like getting it. We were more than that [just counter-attacking] and when we had the ball we caused them loads of problems and kept missing chances. I was a little bit frustrated that we weren't more clinical and we kept going and kept threatening. João was really calm and got a good connection on the ball and got us the win.

"It was really important for us to go 1-0 up and then the second one was fantastic. We worked on Pedro getting in behind on the right and then a really good pass for Joao."

• Wolves have beaten Tottenham on three of their five trips to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the Premier League (L2), with only Chelsea (4) enjoying more wins there as a visiting side.

• Tottenham suffered their first home defeat in the Premier League since December, having won each of their previous five. Indeed, since a 2-0 win over Fulham in October, they’ve conceded in each of their past nine home league games.

• Tottenham have now scored in each of their past 37 Premier League games; only Arsenal between May 2001 and November 2002 (55 games) have had a longer run in the competition’s history.

• Joao Gomes’ first goal was Wolves’ eighth goal from a corner in the Premier League this season; only Arsenal (11) and Everton (9) have more in 2023-24.

• Dejan Kulusevski has scored six Premier League goals this season, his outright most in a campaign. Indeed, two of his last three league goals for Tottenham have been equalisers in the game, after none of his first 10 were.

• Pedro Neto has assisted nine goals in the Premier League this season, only Ollie Watkins and Kieran Trippier (both 10) have more. Indeed, it’s the joint-most by a Wolves player in a season along with Adama Traore in 2019-20.

Joao Gomes scored twice as Wolves gained an excellent win at Tottenham - a result that saw Spurs drop out of the top four in the Premier League.

The visitors went ahead just before half-time when Gomes was left unmarked eight yards out and rose well to powerfully head home Pablo Sarabia's right-wing corner.

But Tottenham made it 1-1 after only 34 seconds of the second half.

Wolves failed to clear a Spurs throw-in and Dejan Kulusevski ran past Craig Dawson and prodded the ball through Jose Sa's legs.

Tottenham had fought back after conceding the first goal to beat Brentford and Brighton in their past two home games and Kulusevski had two chances to put the hosts in front this time.

However, Sa made an excellent save low down to his left and Nelson Semedo blocked a goalbound-effort to keep it level.

Those squandered chances proved significant as Wolves sprang a quick counter-attack with Pedro Neto pulling the ball back for Gomes to side-foot home what proved to be the winning goal.

Spurs began the day in fourth place, but Aston Villa's win at Fulham saw them move above Ange Postecoglou's side.

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BBC pundit Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches again this season, against a variety of guests.

For this weekend's games, he takes on rapper Songer, who is a Chelsea fan.

Sutton's prediction: 3-1

Wolves won the reverse of this fixture in November with two goals in stoppage time - but I can see Tottenham getting their revenge here.

I was right last week with my hunch that Spurs were going to beat Brighton, although my guest, actor Stephen Moyer, did even better and got the 2-1 scoreline spot on.

Spurs just find a way, don't they, with 'Ange-ball'. They never stop coming forward, which is why they keep scoring goals.

Son Heung-min is back from the Asian Cup and he will start this week. Tottenham will concede, even with Wolves forward Matheus Cunha out injured, but they are just relentless in attack and they are going to give someone such a hiding soon.

Songer's prediction: 2-1

I do not feel like Tottenham have any chance of competing for the title and I also hope they do not make the top four. I always have a bet about the top four before the season starts and I stuck Aston Villa in fourth, which meant I got odds of 150-1 for the order I went with.

So, I am hoping Spurs drop points here but I am thinking they will come out on top. I can see it being 1-1 for a long time and Spurs scraping something at the end.

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Wolves head coach Gary O'Neil has been speaking to the media before Saturday's trip to face Tottenham in the Premier League.

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• O'Neil confirmed that Hwang Hee-chan is "completely fine" and "available to start" after missing last week's loss to Brentford with calf soreness which "he's not feeling at all anymore".

• When asked if Matheus Cunha, who has suffered a "fairly significant" hamstring injury, will return before the end of the season, he said: "Yes he will. He's really optimistic and feels good with not too much pain there. He's keen to get straight to work and start pushing to get back and help the team as soon as he can."

• O'Neil said he is "really confident in the team and the group and what they try and produce" but that "Tottenham at full strength will be a real test for us."

• He knows it is one of the toughest away trips, stating: "In any Premier League game you're going to have to be 100% and as close to perfect as we can get, like we were at Stamford Bridge. We'll see if we can make it an uncomfortable afternoon for Tottenham."

• On the challenge posed by Spurs: "They will ask us a lot of questions, so we will need to be ready to answer them and respond with our attacking threat. They don't change, they play the same way a lot, really comfortable with the ball, have a lot of it, really aggressive without it. I've prepped the lads for what that might be like."

• On dealing with Ange Postecoglou's style of play: "They try and combine a lot - lots of short passes, attacking through the middle, fantastic attacking players. (James) Maddison is probably the most free player they have, the rest tend to stay in their positions. We go there with a game plan and a shape we've used before and look to use it as well as possible."

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Arsenal target Pedro Neto could cost £60m with Wolves looking to bring in a club-record fee for the Portugal forward. (Standard), external

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Here are the key facts and figures ahead of Saturday's game between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.

• Tottenham have lost three of their last four Premier League games against Wolves, including the last two in a row. They’ve never lost three consecutive league matches against them before.

• Following their 2-1 win at Molineux in November, Wolves are looking to complete their first league double over Tottenham since 2009-10.

• Since their return to the Premier League in 2018, only Chelsea and Liverpool (4 each) have won more away games against Tottenham than Wolves (3).

• Wolves have won two of their last three away Premier League games (D1), as many as in their previous 17 combined (W2 D3 L12).

• Only Liverpool (10) have won more Premier League home games this season than Tottenham (9), who have won their last five at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

• Wolves have won their last two Premier League games in London, having gone 14 without a win in the capital beforehand (D3 L11). They last won three consecutive top-flight away games in London back in September 1979.

• Since losing 1-0 to Wolves in March 2023, Tottenham Hotspur have scored in each of their last 36 Premier League matches. In Premier League history, the only team with a longer scoring run is Arsenal between May 2001 and November 2002 (55).

• Son Heung-min's 18 goals and assists this season have been worth 16 points to Spurs, with only Mohamed Salah’s goal involvements being worth more for a side in the top-flight this term (18).

• Brennan Johnson has scored in two of his last three Premier League appearances, with both coming as a substitute. The only Spurs player to score in three sub appearances in a row was Teddy Sheringham in 1994.

Wolves might sell Pedro Neto this summer to ensure they do not breach profit and sustainability rules (PSR) and give manager Gary O'Neil funds to spend elsewhere, with Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United admirers of the 23-year-old Portugal winger. (Sun), external

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Mike Taylor
BBC Radio WM reporter

We should have known it.

Having allowed Wolves a heady afternoon at Stamford Bridge, on Matheus Cunha's biggest day so far, the sporting gods were at their most cussed last weekend.

Injuries removed first Hwang Hee-chan and then Cunha from the game against Brentford, drawing the teeth from the Wolves attack. Perhaps it demonstrated Cunha's importance to Wolves even more clearly than his hat-trick against Chelsea did, although there was more to the defeat than just that.

Wolves have shown us their best side so regularly this season, especially since Christmas, that we can briefly forget just how much strife most people agreed they were in only six months ago.

They have played to a higher level than most pundits suspected they could, more often than many fans imagined they would.

In such a competitive league, though, only the elite sides can expect to win games when they don't find their highest gears.

In midfield, Wolves are capable of upsetting exalted opponents, but only when they are note-perfect. Until Saturday, they had a blank injury list - a real rarity - and most of their players in form at the same time.

"The group have done an unbelievable job maintaining a high level generally," said Gary O'Neil, taking a positive view without hiding any truths. "I'm absolutely gutted we fell below it and the players will be as well, so we'll use the elation of last week and what we managed to produce compared to how we feel now to make sure we perform better than we did."

On a more technical level, he noted Brentford slowed the game to a pace that suited them to douse Wolves' fire. "There are going to be afternoons in the Premier League where the opposition make it tough, make it slow and we need to find a way to be better at it."

That is perhaps unlikely to be the pattern this weekend, as Tottenham on their own patch will surely set a more aggressive rhythm. Wolves are more effective if the opposition come out swinging, and are happy to counter-punch.

But, while Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Nathan Fraser - both players of real promise - would benefit from more opportunities, for the moment Cunha and Hwang give Wolves a sharper edge, and news of their fitness will be eagerly awaited.

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Wolves manager Gary O'Neil has confirmed that forward Matheus Cunha sustained a "significant" hamstring injury in the first half of Saturday's defeat against Brentford.

O'Neil said: "It's a fairly significant injury to his hamstring. There's no timeline on it. I've spoken to Matheus a lot and he just wants to keep pushing to get back as soon as he can.

"He's started working on it already, so we're just going to monitor it week by week, day by day, see how far he can come and how quickly we can get him back. He's keen to get back out there as soon as possible.

"It's obviously a big blow to us, to the team and Matheus because of the work he's been doing - the form he was in was exceptional. These things happen, every team suffers injuries. Hwang Hee-Chan was gone for over a month with the Asian Cup and we managed to keep ploughing on and we need to do the same without Matheus."

Cunha is Wolves' joint-leading scorer with 11 goals across all competitions this season, a tally matched by Hwang.

Matt Cooper
Fan writer

Oh, how football can bring you crashing back to reality. Having beaten Chelsea convincingly at Stamford Bridge, losing to struggling Brentford at home just six days later does knock the stuffing out of you.

Wolves were poor on Saturday. That will have been impacted by the early withdrawal of talisman Matheus Cunha through injury, but the team did not look up to it from the start.

The first 15 minutes set the tone for how the rest of the game was going to play out. Conceding two sloppy goals and providing nothing much up the other end of the pitch meant it was a day to forget. Wolves struggled to play through Brentford, who were brilliant out of possession.

It is not a reason for concern, though. All teams have games like these but I am hoping that we will see a better performance against Spurs on Saturday. It will be a tough game but hopefully Spurs' high line will play into how Wolves want to play a lot more than how Brentford set up at the weekend.

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We asked you for your thoughts on Saturday's Premier League match between Wolves and Brentford.

Here are some of your comments:

Wolves fans

Frank: Wolves didn’t turn up. In the first half, they were very sluggish. Brentford got the goal and we didn’t improve, then they punished us. In the second half, we tried and got caught out for the second goal. Jose Sa has to do so much better. It's not often you beat a team four times in one season. Brentford were the better team so we need to learn from it and go again next week. A disappointing day.

Ian: Gary O'Neil has himself to blame, he should've put Hwang Hee-chan in the team. If not in the starting line up, he should've at least been on the substitutions bench. He should have known that Brentford were coming to get revenge for us knocking them out of the FA Cup, and that's what they did.

Mike: Second home game running where we were very poor in the first half and better in the second half. It might have been different if Dawson's goal had not been ruled out by VAR, but then we shot ourselves in the foot by giving away the second goal with a poor ball out from the back. It is not a game Dawson will want to remember.

Callum: Terrible, just terrible! Next we've got Spurs away and we've just lost 2-0 to the Bees. If we had won that one, we would be ninth [in the league]. Now we have to focus on Spurs, who are probably going to play better than the Bees. I just think that whenever we play at home now, we're just not looking as dangerous as we used to.

Brentford fans

Kyle: We played really well. You can see that Ivan Toney has really brought back the team's scoring form. I originally doubted Mark Flekken but his performance against Manchester City and his performance here [against Wolves] were both excellent. The form is back.

Gil: I wasn't at the match but this was a win we sorely needed. I’ve had a bad week myself and this cheered me up. Well done you Bees.

George: You don’t win games away against a team as lethal as Wolves are with their chances without a goalkeeper who you can believe in. Flekken has worked hard to prove to himself and his doubters why he is worthy of that very pink shirt, and it has finally paid off. A huge three points.

Phil: A much needed and good team performance. Mark Flekken is finally showing just how good he is. Ivan Toney is being Ivan Toney and we are three more points towards safety. Come on you Bees.

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Wolves' positive Premier League run stalled with a 2-0 home loss to Brentford on Saturday.

The defeat was Wolves' second in a row at Molineux, those results coming either side of an excellent 4-2 victory at Chelsea.

The hosts were not helped by top scorer Hwang Hee-chan's absence because of a calf injury and then fellow forward Matheus Cunha going off with a hamstring problem midway through the first half against the Bees.

Manager Gary O'Neil said: "We've done a really good job as a group. The group have done an unbelievable job maintaining a high level generally.

"I'm absolutely gutted we fell below it and the players will be as well, so we'll use the elation of last week and what we managed to produce compared to how we feel now to make sure we perform better than we did.

"There were factors which contributed but, if we look at the performance as a whole, it was obviously nowhere near good enough."

Wolves' Portuguese forward Pedro Neto, 23, is expected to attract bids this summer with Liverpool and Arsenal interested. (Football Insider), external

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Ivan Toney almost joined Wolves in 2014 only for the deal to reportedly fall through because of a failed medical.

They could have done with a striker with his cutting edge in this encounter, given their impressive wide play but lack of penalty-box threat.

It should be noted, though, that Wolves have played much of the season without a recognised front man and, in truth, goals haven't been that hard to come by without an out-and-out striker.

Indeed, this was their first blank after finding the net in 18 consecutive home league games since February last year - their longest scoring streak since a run of 22 games in the 1960s.

Their cause was not helped by an injured Matheus Cunha, who had been involved in 12 goals in Wolves' past 12 league games before this one, scoring seven and setting up five. His hat-trick had helped Wolves to a 4-2 win at Chelsea last time out.

Wolves fans will be relieved that the early prognosis is positive.

Here are the key facts and figures following Saturday's game between Wolves and Brentford in the Premier League.

• Brentford have won their first away league game outside of London since March 2023 (2-0 at Southampton), ending a 10-game run winless run in such games (D2 L8).

• Wolves have lost their first Premier League game across their last five meetings with Brentford (W3 D1), since losing their first game against the Bees in the competition (2-0 in September 2021).

• Brentford have kept their first clean sheet in 13 Premier League games, since their 2-0 victory at Chelsea in October, ending their longest such run without a shutout in the competition.

• Wolves had 17 shots in this match, their highest tally in a home Premier League game without scoring since October 2022 v Leicester City (21 shots).

• Ivan Toney has scored three Premier League goals against Wolves, his joint-highest tally against a single opponent in the competition.