Jamie O’Hara has said on Twitter that Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg deserved the Man of the Match award in Tottenham Hotspur’s win over Wolves, after Gary Neville elected for Conor Coady.
Spurs boosted their chances of European football next season by beating Wolves 2-0 in North London this afternoon.
Hojbjerg set up Harry Kane for Tottenham’s opener with a brilliant lofted ball, before scoring the second to effectively kill off Wanderers’ hopes of a comeback.
But Neville, speaking live on Sky Sports, said that the Wolves centre-back was the best player on the pitch today in his view.
Here’s what O’Hara said on Twitter:
A goal and an assist would ordinarily win Hojbjerg the award, it has to be said.
But it also has to be said that Coady was magnificent in Wolves’ defence and if not for him, Tottenham probably would’ve had the game killed off by half time.
The former Liverpool centre-back produced a number of superb goal-line clearances and got his head on almost everything that Spurs put it into the box.
The win took Tottenham above West Ham and into sixth in the Premier League table.
They’re still five points behind fourth-placed Chelsea with two games to go, meaning Champions League qualification might be a pie in the sky, but they’re in pole position to qualify for the Europa League.
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