Tottenham was able to capitalize on the results of the favorites on this post-Christmas day in the Premier League, but at the last minute the victory slipped away.
At the home of Wolverhampton and with Dávinson Sánchez as the starter, again, the result was a 1-1 that knows little, not because the local did not deserve it, which in the end did everything even to win, but because there were five minutes to go to that Mourinho had left with a smile and not with the annoyed face with which he entered his dressing room at the end.
Ndombele opened the account in the first minute of play, a rebound that Davies gave him and a shot from outside, down, impossible for Rui Patricio.
But Tottenham fell back very soon and Wolverhampton gradually approached until Fabio Silva’s spectacular occasion at 27, when he escaped from the mark on the left wing and, although it was spectacular, Dávinson came to the close.
The Colombian Neto made a foul that should have been for yellow and he himself had to give up a corner kick at 29 in another dangerous arrival from the premises. If Mourinho had the notebook at hand, at that point the Cauca should have a green rating.
Podence was testing Lloris, they beat the Colombian by above at 39, but his French friend saved him.
In the second half it was a little more of that same siege of Wolverhampton, very much on the goal of Lloris but without enough clarity to overcome a very close mark and the very Kane and Son appeared again and again rejecting balls from their premises. Just in one of these, the Korean served Neves the ball for an outside shot at 79, which the goalkeeper controlled well.
But the resistance would fall on the end, at 85, Saiss was ahead of everyone, Davies his marker and Kane who saw him pass the attacker like lightning, and justice was done on the scoreboard with the team that did the most.
Inevitably a misstep for Tottenham starters, including Dávinson, who held the score as long as they could but did not hold out in the end, not even when at 8 they called for a penalty on Kane who was not. Fortune, nothing more, made Lloris save the second when Dávinson stayed in the race and could not avoid the center after 95 minutes of play.
In the end, strictly speaking, Tottenham ended up asking for time and defending with his life the dot, which has it fifth in the Premier, behind Liverpool (leader), Everton, Leicester and Manchester United.
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