3 Defeats On The Spin & Spurs Fans Will Be Asking About Team Selections – Match Stats

Tottenham Hotspur had the interesting task of trying to keep the Wolves at bay earlier today as we welcomed Nuno Espirito Santo’s impressive side to White Hart Lane.

Jose Mourinho’s selections for the match saw both Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen take up places on the bench, with Eric Dier brought into the middle of the defence, but whatever Jose’s plan was – ultimately it didn’t work out.

We dominated possession and in terms of chances it was a pretty even game, but with Steven Bergwijn and Serge Aurier finding themselves on the score sheet, we went into the break with a 2-1 lead. Defensively we were again questionable though and the second period saw the visitors improve, and with two goals coming for them in the final 45 minutes, we fell to a 3-2 defeat.

Had Dele Alli made his chance count to make it 3-1 to us, we’d have undoubtedly come out with the win but as it is we now slip to three defeats on the spin across all competitions and Wolverhampton Wanderers move ahead of us into sixth place.

Speaking to the BBC following the full time whistle, Mourinho felt it was a very undeserved defeat.

“I think unfair. The players didn’t deserve the defeat. We were punished by, I would say, mentality mistakes. You have to be ruthless against teams like Wolves that plays fantastically well on the counter-attack. We deserve much more than these results but this is what it is. Attack combined well, they did what they can. They did the plan that we worked on in the week. We had lots of arrivals in dangerous positions, but it is quite frustrating to see they don’t have that feeling.”

As for the Toby and Jan question, he said.

“I think Eric Dier played very, very well, so when the player you bring in as a replacement plays very, very well the question could be why did you play Dier and not why did you leave out Toby and Jan. I tried to play with Davinson and Tanganga, which are the two fastest players. Dier is because he is a midfield player, he has the possibility to come out with the ball and play as an extra midfield player. I thought they did very well apart from the goals, which are collective responsibility, not individual responsibility.”

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Tottenham Hotspur				Wolverhampton Wanderers
Bergwijn (13), Aurier (41)				Doherty (27), Jota (57), Jimenez (73)
Gazzaniga				Rui Patricio
Sanchez				Boly
Dier				Coady
Tanganga			76	Saiss
Aurier			82	Doherty
Lo Celso				Neves
Winks				Joao Moutinho
Davies			91	Vinagre
Lucas Moura				Traore			74
Alli				Jimenez			92
Bergwijn				Jota			79
Substitutes
Alderweireld				Neto			74
Vertonghen				Castelo Podence			92
Vorm				Gibbs-White
Ndombele			76	Ruddy
Skipp				Dendoncker			79
Gedson Fernandes			82	Kilman
Parrott			91	Buur

Game Statistics
13	Goal attempts	14
5	On Target	4
4	Corners	5
12	Fouls	14
3	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
65	%	35