Tottenham 1 Wolves 2
What were we all so worried about? This team doesn’t rely on one player. They’ve proven it before and they just reminded us all again with a richly deserved win against Champions League chasing Spurs. We can sell Matheus Nunes, we can lose Pedro Neto, or Hwang Hee-chan or Matheus Cunha and the group can […]
What were we all so worried about?
This team doesn’t rely on one player. They’ve proven it before and they just reminded us all again with a richly deserved win against Champions League chasing Spurs.
We can sell Matheus Nunes, we can lose Pedro Neto, or Hwang Hee-chan or Matheus Cunha and the group can still find a way.
The key ingredient you see isn’t the talent of an individual, it’s a smart and energetic young coach, working hard with a group of players that take on board his ideas, pull together and deliver on the pitch.
Joao Gomes happened to be today’s match winner, scoring two very different but equally well executed goals to cap one of the finest midfield performances I’ve seen for a good while.
The Brazilian got through his usual mountain of work without the ball, culminating in winning possession on the edge of his own box before sprinting the full length of the pitch to finish Pedro’s smart cut back.
Much like Neto and Cunha and one or two others, the vultures will be circling overhead in the summer, desperately hoping to wrench this fine young talent out of our club.
I hope we shut the door, even if that’s at the expense of our own recruitment efforts because right now, Wolves have nearly all the key ingredients of an excellent Premier League side in place.
Yes, a bonafide striker would be nice but it’s not like we’re struggling for goals. And elsewhere, we’re pretty well stocked.
I thought the defence were particularly imperious today, much more compact and organised than we’ve seen of late.
Even the one goal Spurs managed owed as much to fortune as it did to ingenuity from the dangerous Kulusevski.
But that moment and one terrible headed miss from Ben Davies right the death aside, Wolves restricted one of the more fluent, attacking sides in the league to next to nothing.
On the counter we should have added to our tally as Gary’s latest master plan played out to perfection.
That’s a league double over Tottenham and Chelsea as the London hoodoo is well and truly consigned to the dustbin.
I don’t know where this season will end up, but I’m enjoying it.
With this group and this coach, there really is nothing to worry about.