Tottenham Hotspur vs Wolves: Four moments - Maddison's heart, Kulusevski's toe and van de Ven's sprints

Despite protracted pressure, Spurs could not find the incision needed to outgun Wolves - and could not contain the visitors on the break.

The visitors are fast becoming a bogey team for Tottenham and took this one 2-1.

Spurs were without their full-backs, Pedro Porro and Destiny Udogie, who have been two of the stars of the season, essential to manager Ange Postecoglou's tactics, 'inverting' to provide extra bodies in the centre of the park.

With both out with minor injuries, in came Emerson Royal and Ben Davies, who, before Christmas, were filling in at centre-back. Both worked hard but the drop in quality was clear.

In addition, Yves Bissouma came in for Rodrigo Bentancur and Hueng-Min Son for Timo Werner

Tottenham dominated the first half but struggled to create good chances, with Wolves looking as likely to find a lead on the break. That they almost didn't was in large part down to another towering performance from Micky van de Ven.

But on 42 minutes an unmarked Joao Gomes rose to meet a corner and head in.

The equaliser came immediately after half time, the magic feet of Dejan Kulusevski wriggling free and a toe-poke through the legs of goalkeeper Jose Sa.

Just as Spurs were ratcheting up the pressure, and soon after a Kulusevski shot was well blocked, a loose touch from Bissouma after an hour left Pedro Neto running three quarters of the length of the pitch before pulling back into the box for Joao Gomes to sweep in his second.

On 70 minutes Bentancur, Werner and Brennan Johnson came on for Richarlison, Sarr and Bissouma. But those changes did not bear fruit and, with five minutes to go, Giovani Lo Celso and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg were thrown on for Royal and James Maddison.

But it was not to be enough. Clear-cut chances were hard to come by and on the 90, Micky van de Ven could not get the direction on a header from a corner to beat the keeper.

It was Ben Davies who really should have levelled at the end, getting a free header from a Kulusevski cross all wrong with the goalmouth gaping.

Dejan Kulusevski's toe

Is a toe-poke the sexiest shot in football? No, but it's pretty satisfying nonetheless.

'A very special moment for Samuel' (and James Maddison)

Ben Davies sniffs a worldie

It was 13 minutes in that the ball fell in the box for Ben Davies, who swung a big left foot at it. But the utility defender is not known for his goals and, despite a good connection, the ball flew over (for context Pape Sarr didn't even connect with his volley later in the half).

But forget the worldie - he will be haunted by his missed header in injury time.

Proud Lilywhites

Tottenham's LGBTQI+ supporters' association was celebrated at half time. Proud Lilywhites is marking 10 years on Thursday and has more than a thousand members.

Micky van de Ven outpaces everyone

Midway through the first half, not only did Van de Ven beat Pedro Neto to the ball in a foot race but he also managed to get the pass back to the keeper and stop himself from crashing over the barrier.

Later in the half he came over to the same touchline to snuff out danger with pure strength.