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Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE text commentary of the Premier League clash between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Both teams have very different ambitions coming into today's game, while the hosts are looking to stay ahead of Everton in the table in their bid for a European qualification spot, the visitors still have an outside chance of finishing in the top half for a third successive season. Despite these differences the importance of the three points remains the same, making this fascinating fixture. All the team new, facts and stats to follow with kick-off at 14:05.

Premier League / Matchday 36
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium / 16.05.2021
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Pete Sharland
ByPete Sharland

Updated 16/05/2021 at 14:57 GMT

20'
Lo Celso is central to everything Spurs are producing as he wins a free kick off from a Saiss tackle. Bales takes it, but his shot is not in the corner and Patricio gets down quickly to save it
19'
Lo Celso takes the corner, but Coady marshals the box and clears the ball away
18'
Again Lo Celso reacts quickly to a loose ball, his first time shot deflects off Saiss and goes out for corner
16'
Lo Celso pulling the strings from midfield as another of his searching passes almost finds Son again. The Argentinean looks to have found his rhythm early on
14'
Lo Celso produces a wonderful pass to find Son, who breaks into the box, but his low cross is cut out
12'
Wolves doing well to keep hold of the ball as they look to have settled into the game now
8'
Moutinho corner is whipped in and Lloris just about gathers it in the air, if he got it wrong Silva was on hand to put the ball into the back of the net
7'
Traore does brilliantly to drive into the Spurs half, but his shot is blocked and it goes out for a corner which is taken by Moutinho
6'
Wolves hit the ball long to Silva who does well to break into the box. He gets his shot off, but it's a simple near post save for Lloris
4'
CHANCE! Kane makes a yard of space and releases a shot from range and it beats Patricio but comes off the post
3'
Bale does well down the right wing as he hooks in a decent cross, but Wolves manage to clear the ball away
1'
Spurs have started brightly as they work the ball from left to right searching for an opening
1st Half
1'
Martin Atkinson gets the game started as Spurs kick-off
14:00
Kick-off is less than five minutes away as both side make their way out on to the pitch
13:55
Before the game Mason made it clear his team won't be under estimating this young Wolves side "They are a very good team, young, exciting players and what you probably find when you have a lot of young players, sometimes you’ll find inconsistency but, on their day, they are a very good side and they have proved that in the last couple of seasons in the Premier League. We have to be fully prepared and fully focussed and respect them as a team to win the game.”
13:50
Mason took the Spurs job on at a time where moral at the club was low, but under his stewardship the London Club has secured victory in each of his two home league fixtures to date. The last Spurs manager to win each of their first three home Premier League games was Harry Redknapp back in 2008
13:45
Remarkably under Nuno, 87 of Wolves' 133 Premier League goals have been scored in the second half (65.4%), making it the highest percentage of goals scored in the second half for any manager to have seen 100+ goals scored in their favour in Premier League history.
13:40
Despite Wolves season falling away, Spurs will need to be at their best as records show they have lost three of their six home Premier League games against the visitors
13:35
Wolves winger Traoré has been rewarded a starting place in the squad as he begins to find the kind of form he was hitting last season. He has been involved in four goals in his last six Premier League appearances (2 goals, 2 assists) following a run in which he didn't score or assist in 35 consecutive games.
13:30
Mason will once again be looking to goal scoring duo of Kane and Son. The pair have the best shot conversion (15.3 per cent) in the Premier League despite averaging only 11.4 shots per game as a team - which is the lowest Tottenham have averaged in a Premier League season since Opta started keeping records in 2003/04
13:25
Against Brighton last week Wolves started five players born in the 2000s which was a Premier League first. In the lead up to today's match Nuno stressed the importance of youth players within his squad “We trust the young player and lets see now for the remaining matches how we’re going to balance the team. It’s all about balancing the youth with experience, even the senior players can learn a lot from the youth players, so we’re trying to make the games useful for us in the future."