Wolves 4-2 Spurs | Ange’s verdict

Ange Postecoglou pointed to ‘uncharacteristic individual errors’ after our 4-2 loss against Wolves in the Premier League at Molineux on Sunday.

Trailing 2-0 at half-time, we got ourselves back into the game twice at 2-1 and 3-2 only for the wind to be taken out of our sails by conceding almost immediately afterwards.

Rayan Ait-Nouri put us on the back foot inside two minutes with a volley into the ground that somehow found the corner, but we responded well and had the better of the game – Jose Sa denied Yves Bissouma, Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson went close – only for an own goal to extend the home side’s lead as Guglielmo Vicario parried Marshall Munetsi's header into Djed Spence, who could do little about it cannoning into the empty net.

Mathys Tel pulled a goal back from Brennan’s cross on 59 minutes, only for Wolves to strike five minutes later as Ait-Nouri got the better of Cuti Romero and crossed for Jorgen Strand Larsen to tap in.

Richarlison, off the bench with returning Dejan Kulusevski, gave us late hope when he nodded home from close range after Cuti’s header struck the crossbar on 85 minutes, only for Wolves to wrap it up a minute later, this time Matheus Cunha robbed Lucas Bergvall, beat Ben Davies and slotted home.

Speaking to our Review Show from Molineux, Ange said: “It was a bit of a funny game for us. I thought our general football was good. This is not an easy place to come to, but we conceded goals on the back of uncharacteristic individual errors, and when that happens, it’s very hard to get a result.”

Ange on poor goals costing us, as he said at Chelsea recently...

“Yes... today was just guys making errors, who, to be fair, have been pretty good for us this year. It all happened in one game, and we got punished for it.”

Ange on us having good spells going forward in the game...

“Like I said, for the most part I thought our football was good. In the second half, we had to chase the game a bit, I thought we did that really well, got ourselves into a great position at 2-1 but conceded straight away, then back to 3-2, then we conceded again. From our perspective, we understand why we lost today, but in general, the effort wasn't too bad.”

Ange on Deki’s return after six weeks out...

“Yes, important for Deki, Richy, Matty Tel, that they all got some minutes today because they are going to be important for us on Thursday.”

As Ange eluded to there, next up, our UEFA Europa League quarter-final, second leg against Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany on Thursday (8pm UK) with the tie locked at 1-1 after the first leg.