Wolves boss Vitor Pereira is a big fan of Ange Postecoglou’s fashion of play at Tottenham and is relishing Sunday’s conflict in north London.
Postecoglou’s future has been referred to as into query on the again of successive Premier League losses, seeing Spurs slip to twelfth within the desk.
Many have criticised the Australian’s stubbornness almost about altering his attacking fashion of play, however Pereira believes he ought to keep it up.
“I like it. I respect it quite a bit as a result of we competed towards one another in Asia,” Pereira mentioned. “He’s a supervisor with completely different concepts.
“He has very offensive concepts and it means they’re a crew that may rating a number of targets.
“We must be at our greatest degree to compete with them. The sport will probably be very laborious for us.”
Spurs on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/lyli6I8kuq
— Wolves (@Wolves) December 28, 2024
Pereira is aiming to turn out to be the primary Wolves boss to win his first three matches within the prime flight, having to this point overwhelmed Leicester Metropolis and Manchester United since succeeding Gary O’Neil.
These wins have lifted Wolves out of the relegation zone, whereas Spurs at the moment are 11 factors adrift of the highest 4 after shedding to Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Tottenham are with out no less than eight gamers for the house conflict with Wolves, however Postecoglou is bullish heading into 2025.
“Our league place is just not nice but it surely’s tremendous tight and we’re not that far off,” he mentioned. “We’re within the semi-final of the Carabao Cup and nonetheless in an incredible place in Europe and there’s additionally the FA Cup.
“There’s nonetheless the whole lot to play for. For us this yr to make it a season the place we are able to have success, however we want some assist.
“The gamers want some assist and, extra importantly, the membership is working actually laborious to strive make that occur.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Tottenham – Dominic Solanke
Solanke has struggled for away targets of late, most not too long ago firing a clean towards Nottingham Forest, however he has been concerned in seven targets in his previous six house matches in all competitions (six targets, one help).
The England worldwide is now aiming to attain in 4 successive house appearances for the primary time since October 2021 when doing so in six straight video games for Bournemouth.
Full give attention to Sunday.
@Castrol pic.twitter.com/aOinrvxOYq
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) December 27, 2024
Wolves – Matheus Cunha
Cunha scored within the win over Manchester United to make it three targets in his previous three matches, whereas going additional again he has been concerned in 11 targets in his previous 10 Premier League outings.
In actual fact, he has had a hand in 22 targets in 2024 (16 targets, six assists), which is the second most by a Wolves participant in a calendar yr within the division after Raul Jimenez (24 in 2019).
MATCH PREDICTION: TOTTENHAM WIN
Tottenham have misplaced every of their previous three Premier League video games towards Wolves, which is their longest ever such streak on this fixture.
Certainly, Wolves have gained 4 of their previous 5 league matches towards Spurs – as many as of their earlier 19 video games towards them.
The 4 Premier League losses suffered by Postecoglou’s facet for the reason that begin of December can also be their most in a calendar month since December 2003 (additionally 4).
Nevertheless, Tottenham have solely misplaced their closing league recreation in one of many previous 15 calendar years, albeit coming towards Wolves in 2018.
Not since 2017, in the meantime, have Wolves gained their closing match in consecutive calendar years, which they want to obtain after beating Everton 3-0 12 months in the past.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Tottenham – 53.9%
Wolves – 25%
Draw – 21.1%
