Strand Larsen levels late for Wolves to deepen Postecoglou’s Spurs woes
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A home game against relegation-threatened opposition ought to mean only one thing for Tottenham. Instead, there was an impossible-to-ignore sense of foreboding before and during plenty of this one. It is simply the period that Ange Postecoglou and his players are living.
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Spurs trailed to Hwang Hee-chan, who started his first Premier League game for Wolves since August. They equalised through Rodrigo Bentancur. They missed a penalty, Son Heung-min the culprit. And then they led through Brennan Johnson. All inside the first half. They had the openings in the second period to make it 3-1, to soothe the nerves that were almost audible inside the stadium.
Everybody knew that there could be a late sting and not just because Wolves have been revitalised since Vitor Pereira replaced Gary O’Neil as the manager and promptly beat Leicester and Manchester United. And so it came to pass. It was a slice inside from Rayan Aït-Nouri followed by the killer ball up to the substitute Jørgen Strand Larsen who took a touch and lashed high inside the near corner of the net.
There were boos from the frustrated home support upon the full-time whistle, who have seen their team win just once in the last seven league matches; an overall feeling of soul-searching. The result here was everything to Postecoglou and, for once, he probably did not care how it came. Once again, it would elude him.
