Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Palhinha 82′)
MOLINEUX STADIUM – The prospect of this being a Championship fixture next season was unthinkable in September, when a third-placed Tottenham Hotspur drew with bottom-club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Now Tottenham are desperately fighting to prevent that from becoming the case, a gritty 1-0 win their first in the Premier League of 2026, and only secured thanks to a worldie Antonin Kinsky save keeping out Joao Gomes’ free-kick in the final minute.
A rare victory, then, and one only slightly soured by the fact relegation rivals West Ham United won against Everton as well.
It means Spurs remain in the Premier League relegation zone with four games to go, but their prospects are brighter than they were at 4.15pm on Saturday – when there was a four-point gap between themselves in 18th and West Ham in 17th.
At that point, Wolves fans revelled in singing “You’re going down with the Wanderers…” and “Premier League you’re having a laugh…”, but it was then Spurs supporters basking in the Wolverhampton sun after Joao Palhinha bundled the ball in from a corner in the 82nd minute.
And, what a shock, that is what can happen when you put corners in the box.
Somehow, in this game of probabilities, Spurs opted to send a first-half corner to the edge of the area, where Pedro Porro met the ball thinking he was Paul Scholes. The volley was as high as it was wide and a reminder the Spurs full-back does not quite boast the technique of the ex-Manchester United midfielder.
So when Spurs did find the breakthrough, it arrived in basic fashion, a messy corner resulting in Palhinha poking home the loose ball.
Few saw it coming. Spurs had look clueless in attack, had lost both Dominic Solanke and Xavi Simons to injury either side of half-time, and utterly lacked a creative spark with a starting midfield of Rodrigo Bentancur, Conor Gallagher and Yves Bissouma.
Dominic Solanke limped off for Tottenham (Photo: Getty)Sometimes then you just have to put it in the mixer. It wasn’t pretty, but it doesn’t matter.
West Ham winning means the gap remains two points, and going forward the main worry for Spurs will be that no club they face after this – Aston Villa, Leeds United, Chelsea and Everton – are quite as bad as already-relegated Wolves.
The second worry: injuries. Again. Solanke and Simons limping off means Spurs will have to limp their way over the line.
And at this rate, now onto 34 ponts to West Ham’s 36, the 40-point mark may not be so magic. West Ham were relegated with a record-high 42 points back in 2003. It’s unlikely that will be required this time, but it could be close.
And for Spurs, Saturday was a reminder of what they must fight to avoid. They have become the team everyone wants to lose, and should they drop down to the Championship, they would become the club every other second-tier club desperately wants to beat.
It would be relentless, and not merely because of the schedule, as 46 times they would face teams who would nothing more than contributing to their spiral.
They have four games to avoid that. It is out of their hands, but by going back to basics, they have a chance.
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