Wolverhampton Wanders head coach Vitor Pereira says leading scorer Matheus Cunha will not start Sunday’s Premier League clash with Tottenham Hotspur despite the Brazil international returning from suspension.
Wolves have won their last three games and gone four unbeaten in Cunha’s absence after he was sent off in the FA Cup defeat to Bournemouth.
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Pereira has now taken the unusual step of confirming two days before the game that he will name an unchanged starting XI for the fifth successive game.
“Matheus is committed, working and preparing himself to help the team,” said Pereira. “But we won the last three games, playing consistently, tactically and mentally.
“What is fair? It is fair to keep going with the same team. This is my opinion. This is football, this is commitment, this is leadership. And Matheus will come on to help us. He’s committed. He understands. I had a conversation with him, but I will play with the same team.”
Cunha’s ban, which included an extra game on the sidelines for refusing to leave the field after his red card in the last-16 game, has allowed Marshall Munetsi and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde to thrive in support of main centre forward Jorgen Strand Larsen.
And Pereira says Wolves have changed their method of attacking the last four games.
“Tactically, when we are attacking, we are doing different movements,” said Pereira. “I’m asking different things. We can do a lot of things, different movements, and we are trying this, we are trying to improve our style of play, especially with the ball.”
Wolves are 17th in the Premier League with seven games left this season.
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