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Wolves versus Spurs LIVE: teams look to bounce back in Premier League lunchtime kick-off

Premier League / Matchday 12
Molineux / 11.11.2023
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Updated 11/11/2023 at 14:46 GMT


12:30
REMEMBRANCE
It's Armistice Day, and the occasion is marked accordingly. Molineux goes silent as a lone bugler plays The Last Post.
12:25
CLACK CLACK
Here come the players, let's get about it. The referee today is Tim Robinson.
12:21
A BIG DAY IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
It's coming up to 9.30pm in Seoul, and what a Premier League feast they're sitting down to there; it's Hwang Hee-chan up against Son Heung-min.
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin is booming around Molineux, and we're almost ready to go here.
12:16
SPEAKING OF ADVERSITY
The 100th minute penalty that sent Wolves to defeat last week was straight on the back of another inflammatory penalty against them when Newcastle United left Molineux with a 2-2 draw a week prior. If they get another penalty given against them today I daresay it will raise the temperature somewhat on this chilly day in the Midlands.
12:11
A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Yves Bissouma here, with a little window into Tottenham's impressive start to the season.
It's an interesting juncture for Postecoglou's team, as they aim to overcome the setbacks of losing not just their unbeaten record, but losing a third of their starting eleven in one match. The true test of any team is in reacting to adversity, and they could return to the Premier League summit with a win this afternoon.
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12:04
TELL ME WHY I DO LIKE MONDAYS
Here's our team today on that box of fireworks at the Tottenham Stadium on Monday night.
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12:02
ELSEWHERE ON TNT
It's UFC 295 in Maddison Square Garden tonight. Britain's Tom Aspinall takes on Sergei Pavlovich in an interim heavyweight title fight, followed by Jiri Prochazka facing Alex Pereira the vacant light heavyweight belt.
If you want to get all about that, here's how you can:
11:58
GARY TALKS
Here's the Wolves boss with his views on today.
11:55
ONE VARCE AFTER ANOTHER
This week the Wolves manager Gary O’Neil called for the clear and obvious rule within VAR adjudication to be scrapped. Elsewhere Ange Postecoglou, recent winner of a third Manager of the Month award in a row, spoke eloquently about the erosion of authority – and respect – of referees that VAR is causing. Both men have been refreshing voices in addressing the damage that technology is doing to football, a world away from some of the self-absorbed posturing elsewhere in the Premier League.
Bless this mess, eh? The game is in a bit of a state right now, and it’d be nice to get an end-to-end ding dong here where we come away from it only talking about moments of individual brilliance that lit it up. Hope springs eternal.
11:50
TEAM TALK
There’s still no Pedro Neto for Wolves as he recovers from a hamstring injury. There are two changes from last weekend, as Joao Gomes in for Tommy Doyle and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde replaces Sasa Kalajdzic
The collateral damage of Tottenham’s defeat to Chelsea on Monday was losing 75% of their back four and their playmaker James Maddison until the New Year. Richarlison is also out, recuperating from recent surgery, so it’s a new look Spurs today. Eric Dier and Ben Davies form the centre-back pairing, with Emerson Royal in at left back. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg steps in to replace Maddison in midfield.
11:45
THE TEAMS
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Sa; Semedo, Kilman, Dawson, Toti Gomes; Bellegarde, Lemina, Joao Gomes, Ait-Nouri; Hwang, Cunha
SUBS: Bentley, Doherty, Otto, Bueno, Traore, Doyle, Sarabia, Silva, Kalajdzic
Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario; Porro, Dier, Davies, Emerson Royal; Sarr, Bissouma, Hojbjerg; Kulusevski, Son, Johnson
SUBS: Forster, Phillips, Dorrington, Skipp, Bentancur, Lo Celso, Gil, Veliz, Donley
11:40
AHOY-HOY!
We’ve got a fascinating little tussle on the go at Molineux today, as both teams look to recover from chastening defeats where the heavy hand of VAR loomed large over proceedings. Wolves were submarined by a controversial late penalty at Sheffield United last weekend, while Tottenham’s game with Chelsea on Monday was…well, what was that?
Let’s see what high jinks we get in the Premier League today then; team news off the wires shortly.
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