The good news for Tottenham Hotspur is that there are no new injury concerns as they prepare to face winless Wolves tomorrow in their Premier League match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The bad news is,
apart from Pape Matar Sarr who was held out of Wednesday’s League Cup win over Doncaster as a precaution, nobody else is coming back either.
That’s the report from Thomas Frank, who confirmed Pape Sarr is fine and ready to feature tomorrow, but who also said French forward Randal Kolo Muani will miss yet another match with a dead leg. Don’t expect to see either of them anytime soon.
“The latest is that everyone who was available for the last Premier League game is available again. Midweek Pape was out as a precaution. He was good, he trained today and that is positive.
Kolo Muani is just a dead leg which is dragging on. It’s a little bit annoying. It will take a few more days so he will not be available. Dom is not available. It’s an ankle injury which has just been a little bit tricky. It’s nothing big. We are positive it will be relatively quick.
“Dom has been running a lot and done a lot, so he’s in a fine-ish place. Of course it will still take a few weeks to get up to a good place. And Kolo Muani has been off the grass for a couple of weeks and it will take some weeks after that.”
Frank also gave some more details on RKM’s injury, saying it was a substantial dead leg injury that happened in training, and that it was Pape Sarr who (accidentally) injured him.
“[It happened] in training. I think it was Pape that ran into him. I need to blame Pape, but yeah very unfortunate it’s just a contact injury. It is one of those where sometimes they can take a week or other times they can take a couple of weeks because it’s started to bleed again unfortunately.”
As a fun piece of Spurs trivia, before this point Kolo Muani’s longest stint out due to injury in his career was an adductor strain at PSG in 2023 that sidelined him for a total of 5 days. Welcome to Tottenham Hotspur, Randal.
Solanke’s injury is frustrating, but there’s no selection headache with him still out of the side — Richarlison is expected to start the match against a Wolves side that has yet to win in five matches this season, and Mathys Tel will almost certainly serve as his backup.
“Right now it is very simple and very easy. Richy is playing and doing good. As you said, scored three goals and one assist they are good numbers. Happy with Richy. He just needs to keep building and keep adding good performances. Keep arriving in the right areas in the box. So yeah, that is positive.”
Frank knows that there are no easy matches in the Premier League and while Wolves being winless in five is a stat, another true one is that Spurs haven’t defeated Wolves in their past five matchups against them either. Frank said his team are not overconfident, and are in a good place to work, prepare, and do their best on Saturday.
“We are facing a good Wolves side. I think everyone is aware that they haven’t had their best start in terms of points. When you look at their performances, they are much better. They are much tighter games. You can see the games they have lost, except the City game, is very super tight. So I expect a very difficult game. This is a team that the last five times we haven’t been able to beat. So I think we are very fully aware that this is another game in the Premier League [where] you can take nothing for granted. You can’t just think you can walk over any opponent. So we need to come flying out and be ready for it. We need the fans behind us. They need to back us every single second of the match. But I’m very confident, I’m positive that we’ll go out and perform well tomorrow.
“We always look backwards. We don’t look into the next game. Every game has got its own life. Every game has got its own story. You know, you’ve asked me these questions before in the past. I was thinking is it best to face a team that’s been unbeaten in 10 games or a team that haven’t won in 10 games? I don’t know and I actually don’t care. I just know we prepare for Wolves. We look at their strength and the areas where we think we could potentially hurt them. And then I think it’s good that our players are in a good place. They are confident but also know that we need to work very hard. It’s not going to be easy. And also, they know the stat as well that we haven’t beaten them the last five times.”
Tottenham host Wolves in the super-late slot, with the match kicking off at 3 pm ET / 8 pm BST. The match is televised on USA Network in the USA and Sky Sports Premier League in the UK.
