Wolves 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – as it happened

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Right then, that’s us done for another weekend – join us for more football, er … tomorrow, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Friday, and on and on and Ariston. Here’s our match report – ta-ra.

Romain Saïss thwarts Tottenham with late header to earn Wolves draw

4.26pm EST 16:26

Gosh, Spurs didn’t have a shot on target after the 21st minute. That’s not at all good, especially against a team famous for coming on strong in the second half.

Harry Kane trudges off. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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Roman Saiss tells Sky his team should be disappointed because they conceded early, played well and created lots of chances, but only scored one. I’m not sure about that chances, but otherwise he’s right, and when he’s encouraged to blame Fabio Silva’s late miss, does a good job of wriggling out of it. His team need to be more consistent, he says, and need to carry on this performance into their next game at Manchester United.

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No Premier League side has tossed as many points from winning positions as Spurs, but you just know that if they take the lead in their next game, they’ll try to sit on it. I wonder if the players are still as happy to go along with him.

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Spurs move up from sixth to fifth, level on points with Man City, but with a better goal difference having played a game more. Wolves move above Leeds into 11th.

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Full-time: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

Spurs led for 86 minutes but in the end both sides got what they deserved.

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90+6 min Wolves are going to win this! Neves clips a luscious pass over the top for Fabio Silva … he’s alone and palely loitering … but he can only head weakly into the ground, ducking into rather than with the ball, and Lloris collects easily! That’s a bad miss, dearie me.

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90+5 min Neto has been good in the second half and he dashes around the outside of Doherty before slamming over a low cross that Lloris reaches before Traore.

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90+4 min I get sitting on a 1-0 when you have Cech in goal and Carvalho, Terry, Cole and Makalele in front of them, but with these? It makes no sense at all, and is actually a far riskier option than trying to score again.

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90+3 min Spurs will go third if they win this, but if they don’t it’s four league games without a win.

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90+1 min Vitinha replaces Podence, who’ll have better days but who put in a monumental shift. I really like him, but I think he’s better coming from out to in at the moment.

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90 min Suddenly Spurs are playing on the front foot, as they could’ve been for the last 89 minutes.

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89 min Winks lifts a pass over the top that puts Kane in a race with Saiss and the ball. The second it becomes clear the ball’s going to win, the captain of England hurls himself to the ground and beseeches for a penalty. The ref ignores him, but he’s lucky to avoid a booking for that.

Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur goes down in the area with Romain Saiss of Wolverhampton Wanderers. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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GOAL! Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Saiss 87)

People never change, and Jose Mourinho will never learn! Neto’s corner is much better than Moutinho’s have been and Saiss meets it with an excellent header at the front post, getting in front of Davies. That’s what happens when you put faith in your ok defenders rather than in your wonderful strikers.

Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Romain Saiss scores their first goal. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters Saiss celebrates scoring. Photograph: Carl Recine/AFP/Getty Images Delight for Wolves. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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86 min Wolves have really stuck at this, but they’re just lacking a bit in attack and their set-pieces have been dreadful.Here comes another corner though…

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84 min A change apiece, Wolves sending on Otasowie for Moutinho and Spurs replacing Son with Lamela. He and Kane have been poor today, but I’m sure Wolves will be glad to see the back of him

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3.57pm EST 15:57

83 min “I think we should just enjoy McLean, and Clough, and Ferguson for what they were, and what they achieved,” says Simon McMahon. “No doubt in 30 years we might look back and wonder whether Mourinho, Guardiola and Klopp would survive in the modern game. Managers, and players, by definition belong in their own era. McLean was, in many respects, actually ahead of his time, and as a person was in actual fact nothing like his managerial persona. Anyway, cheers to you and all football fans. Hope you are well, and stay safe! Here’s to 2021!”

The greats of any era would be great in every era, more or less. And agreed, tactically Wee Jim was ahead of pretty much all of his contemporaries.

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82 min Wolves win a corner down the left and Moutinho dutifully clips it into the middle, but no one’s arsed to attack it and Winks heads clear under nae pressure.

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80 min Neto runs out of position skating a cross the face of the Spurs defence but Son then gives the ball away to Neves, who has time to pick a pass but instead drills a low shot that has Lloris scurrying but which he’s always gathering.

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79 min After Podence can’t find a decent cross, Berwign looks to have skipped away down the left, but a poor touch allows Neves to come across and collect possession.

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78 min “The colour of the referee’s shirt is ‘Real Madrid Away 2017’,” reckons Matt Dony. I think there’s a more luminous quality to it.

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77 min Wolves have played well second half, but they’ve not created much in the way of chances. Which I guess means that Spurs have defended pretty well.

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76 min Traore stands up Davies, then sticks the ball one side and goes down the other as yerman does everything he can to insert his body in the road. He just about does enough, but has a proper result when the ref appraises a free-kick.

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74 min Kane finds himself down the left and swivels into a cross that Saiss does really well to clout clear, given the speed of the ball and his proximity to his own goal.

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73 min “Jeez, Mourinho has just spent an age giving Bergwijn a page-by-page run-through of what appears to be the illustrated version of Jonathan Wilson’s Inverting the Pyramid before sending him on. Hope he has a good memory” emails Justin Kavanagh.

I guess this kind of thing is pretty common in the NFL and NBA, so there’s no reason to think footballers can’t cope, even if the game if less formulaic.

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72 min Marcal looks to ease away from Son but slips and looks to have strained something. On comes the physio to administer treatment and Marcal has a stand at the side, but is quickly back running again.

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70 min Spurs send Sissoko on for Ndombele. Mourinho is backing his defenders to see it out again.

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69 min Semedo sticks out a go go Gadget leg and leaves one on Ndombele; he’s booked.

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68 min Neto finds space outside the box and fairly rattles a shot that’s deflected behind. The corner comes to nowt, but Wolves are taking it to them.

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68 min Spurs break down the right but Son is too late to square to Kane, who then prods through a set of legs when he might’ve shot and can’t collect around the other side. That’s rare for him – usually he pops off so early it’s almost before the game started.

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67 min I absolutely love the colour of the ref’s top – this is the only photo I can find and it doesn’t do it justice. But what colour do we reckon it is? Mauve?

Adama Traore of Wolverhampton Wanderers fails in front of the ref. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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65 min Wolves win a free-kick 40-odd yards out and close to the right touchline, so Moutinho takes it quickly, clipping a clever pass in between Lloris and Neto … but the keeper is paying attention and gets out first to improvise a clearing fly-kick.

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63 min Reguilon, who ended up playing left-midfield, more or less, is replaced by Bergwijn. Mourinho must want his team higher up the pitch and rightly so – the pressure isn’t wild, but another 30 of this and you’d expect Wolves to find an equaliser.

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62 min It’s been all Wolves this half, and Mourinho looks to be bringing on Bergwijn as the physio comes on to treat an irritated Dier, who has to step off the pitch as a consequence.

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60 min Excellent from Neto, skirting around the outside of Doherty and driving a low cross that hits Reguilon and bounces into Silva’s path. But Lloris is out quickly, wearing a toe on the phizog as the men contest the ball. He’s fine.

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59 min I’m not sure why, but Kane allows Dier to take the free-kick, 25 yards out, left of centre, and he duly clips it wide with unarguable authority.

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58 min Coady tries to clip the ball over Ndombele’s challenge but Ndombele just runs through him so Coady has no choice but to bring him down. Kane wants a red card, seemingly telling the ref that his mate with in, but there was defenders on the cover so a booking is the correct call.

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57 min Spurs sat on a one-goal lead against both Palace and Liverpool, getting caught both times. It might work here, but it can’t be the best way of going about things given Spurs’ defenders and attackers.

Marcel and Ruben Neves of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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3.30pm EST 15:30

56 min Traore really looks in the mood – Wolves need to get him on the ball as often as possible. But this time it’s Semedo raiding down the right, only to wallop a cross miles away from anyone.

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55 min Reguilon nashes down the left but can’t find a crossing angle and Wolves are soon back in amongst them.

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53 min Podence has real chutzpah, turning up outside the box to prompt. He needs to work out what kind of player he wants to be because his team need men in the box, but he’s so sharp outside it, though his combination with Neto doesn’t quite work out here.

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52 min Moutinho clips flat to the near post, where it’s summarily headed away.