Tottenham Hotspur will turn their attention to the Premier League following their 1-1 draw against German giants Frankfurt in the Europa League knockout stage on Thursday. The North Londoners supporters and Ange Postecoglou will have the second leg in mind going into this weekend’s game, but another poor performance and the team would be heading to Germany with dropped heads, which makes it important to build on the draw with a win this Sunday and follow that up with an exemplary performance in the decisive leg of the tie.
The Lilywhites will be making that 179km trip to Wolves this weekend, and sticking to the English top tier outcomes, Spurs would be looking to build on their 3-1 win over Southampton at N17 in Gameweek 31 of the ongoing campaign.
Meanwhile, Wolves come into this game with high confidence given how the hosts haven’t lost a game in their past four EPL fixtures, having won the last three. It does look like they have escaped that relegation battle given their 12-point lead over Ipswich Town in the seventeenth, but they would be looking to find more space before going into the final game weeks of the season.
Wolves vs Tottenham, Head to head (h2h)
Wolves wins: 33, Draws: 22, Tottenham wins: 52
Match Info
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2025
Kick-off Time: 2:00 PM BST
Venue: Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton
Team News
In what will come as a major blow for the North Londoners, Wolves ace Matheus Cunha will be available again for the hosts following his four-match suspension, and the Brazilian international would be fresh and gearing up to prove his credentials once again in the English top tier. Now this will put their manager, Vitor Pereira, into the spotlight, given how Jorgen Strand Larsen has stepped up in Cunha’s absence. The latter has notched goals in the past three consecutive games. We may end up seeing Cunha in a support role, like we have seen for the majority of the ongoing campaign at WV1.
For Spurs, it doesn’t appear that the Australian head coach has any fresh injury concerns from yesterday’s game against Frankfurt. However, you’d expect both Dejan Kulusevski and Kevin Danso to continue on the sidelines, given how both of them are “touch and go” for UEL’s second leg in Germany next week. There is also an expectation that the North Londoners would rest some players with a keen eye on the Europa League, and we could end up seeing the likes of Richarlison, Ben Davies, and Mathys Tel lining up from the get-go.
What to expect?
Vitor Pereira’s team are very resilient at the back. While they concede goals, they haven’t conceded more than two against a side in their last eleven games. They are a compact side that attracts presses before pushing the ball into spaces and then tries to maximise drives to get an upper hand on the game. We could see them defending in a compact manner and pushing out with drives from the flanks to spread out the Lilywhites’ backline and create space.
For Ange, it is difficult to break down the compact states of this Wolves side, and we will have to see how the likes of Bergvall or Maddison create solutions when facing such difficult-to-push-through zones in the midfield.
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Predicted Lineup
Wolves Starting XI: Sa, Gomes, Agbadou, Doherty, Aït-Nouri, André, Gomes, Semedo, Bellegarde, Cunha, Strand Larsen.
Tottenham Starting XI: Vicario, Porro, Romero, Davies, Spence, Sarr, Gray, Bissouma, Moore, Richarlison, Johnson.
