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Sun. December 29, 2024, 5:10 p. m. | Tottenham Hotspur
A late draw prevented victory on Sunday afternoon when we finished 2024 with a 2-2 draw against the Wolves at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Having fallen behind to an early Hwang Hee-Chan opener for the visitors, we showed great resolve and character to battle back and lead by half-time. Rodrigo Bentancur netted his first goal back following his lengthy suspension and, although Heung-Min Son saw a penalty saved by Jose Sa, Brennan Johnson scored to put us 2-1 up going into the interval.
Just when it seemed that we were going to endure a well -deserved victory, the substitute for the Wolves, Jorgen Strand Larsen, tied in the 87th minute and we had to settle for a point as the calendar year came to an end.
There were only seven minutes left when the visitors opened the scoring in the third adjustment of the new boss of Vitor Pereira, in a loose kick from 22 meters through Andre in Rayan Ait-Nouri, who placed himself in front of Hwang to a whole law of shots . . Shooting off the post. Fortunately, we temporarily equalized, Bentancur crossing his marker to power a near post header in front of José Sa from Pedro Porro’s corner 12 minutes from time. And it’s a corner that almost gave up our second and lovely delivery found through Radu Dragusin at 8 meters, but his head just got.
Matheus Cunha caused Ford Forster 4 minutes before halfway, Andre. Driving Johnson while they went to the ball of Dejan Kulusvski. He intervened to kick, through the delirium to the right of the goalkeeper, but José his Devina and drove the ball with a wide stop.
The former Spur Matt Doherty later denied his son in the part -time blow, sliding to block the pattern’s shot at the end of a driving race and seemed to go at the break. Up to 3 minutes after unemployment when Bentancur picked up the ball and discovered Johnson, played in Kulusvski and continued his career towards the box to hold on to the cut of the Swedish international and hit the house in the second.
The second part took a long time to start with injuries and replacements disturbing the team and only in the 66th minute we saw a true goal opportunity, James Maddison jumping over the transverse crossbar from the edge of the surface. Once the attack calmed down again, we almost added a third when the mocking center of Timo Werner escaped the tense of Dominic Solanke’s start in the second post, before Solanke escaped a few moments later and released Kulusevski to the goal, passed overlooked José. However, from a closed angle and with the right foot, it is possible that he has not downloaded enough and his shot came out from inside the criminal area.
At a time when it looked like we would gone on to add to the scoreline, instead it was Wolves with the next goal to draw the game level with just three minutes left. Ait-Nouri slipped a ball inside for Strand Larsen and, from a very tight angle, he rifled a shot high past Forster and into the roof of the net.
There were eight minutes added on at the end and we almost regained the lead but Pape Matar Sarr headed Kulusevski’s cross wide from six yards out, while we had a few attacking opportunities that we didn’t quite make the best of and in the end had to make do with the draw.
Targets: Spurs – Bentancur 12, Johnson Forty-five 3; Wolves – Hwang 7, Strand Larsen 87.
Yellow cards: Spurs – Bentancur; Lobos – Bellegare, Semedo.
Referee: Chris Kavanagh.
Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Climate: soft clouds, soft winds, seven degrees.
Attendance: 61,284.