(Football news) Brentford put Gary O’Neil’s team to the sword 2-0 last weekend, while the Lilywhites pulled off a thrilling 2-1 comeback victory over Brighton & Hove Albion.
A Pascal Gross penalty sent the Seagulls into the tunnel last weekend with a one-goal advantage to defend, but Brighton dominated a lackluster Tottenham team in the first half of their match in the English capital, even without Roberto De Zerbi yelling his normal orders from the touchline.
However, Tottenham Hotspurs pulled level just past the hour mark when Pape Sarr finished from close range. Then, with Brighton seemingly the more likely to win in the closing minutes, Son Heung-min, making his first appearance since leaving for the Asian Cup, squared for Brennan Johnson to score with the game’s final attack in injury time.
Following the Lions’ defeat to Manchester United the following day, Ange Postecoglou’s team leapfrogged Aston Villa back into fourth place in the Premier League table, a position they have now held for the past week. Johnson’s finish at the back post caused unrestrained chaos inside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Tottenham took advantage of a late goal against Brighton to extend their winning streak to five Premier League home games. In those five games, they have scored multiple goals. Two weeks prior, they had lost to Everton due to a last-minute goal.
Due to their home defensive shortcomings, Tottenham has been forced to score at least twice in those five games. As a result, the hosts have now gone eight games without a Premier League clean sheet at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where only Fulham and Manchester United have failed to score in 2023–24.
While Tottenham rejoiced in a fifth-straight Premier League home win last weekend, Wolves were condemned to back-to-back losses in front of the Molineux faithful, who witnessed Brentford return to the capital with a comfortable two-goal win under their belts.
Christian Norgaard’s header and Ivan Toney proved telling for Brentford, who survived one brief scare when Craig Dawson had seemingly drawn Wolves level, only for a VAR review to show that the defender’s left boot was marginally offside as Gary O’Neil’s men failed to score at home for the first time this season.
After scoring a terrific hat-trick in the recent beating of Chelsea, Matheus Cunha’s devastating first-half injury rubbed salt into the Wolves’ open wounds, and O’Neil’s men have now dropped below mid-table rivals Chelsea into 11th place, but European qualification is not out of the picture just yet.
After winning their past five away games in all competitions, including victories over Brentford and Chelsea in the capital, the visitors to Newcastle United on Saturday have just four points less to make up to Newcastle United in seventh place.
On August 20, 2022, Wolves traveled to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and lost 1-0. However, since then, they have defeated the Lilywhites twice in a row at Molineux, and they are only 90 minutes away from defeating Spurs in three league games in a row for the first time.
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