Wolves manager Gary O'Neil praised his side's "almost perfect" performance as Joao Gomes' double sank Tottenham - nudging Spurs out of the Premier League's top four.

The visitors went ahead just before half-time when Gomes was left unmarked eight yards out and rose well to powerfully head home Pablo Sarabia's right-wing corner.

But Tottenham made it 1-1 after only 34 seconds of the second half.

Wolves failed to clear a Spurs throw-in and Dejan Kulusevski ran past Craig Dawson and prodded the ball through Jose Sa's legs.

Tottenham had fought back after conceding the first goal to beat Brentford and Brighton in their past two home games and Kulusevski had two chances to put the hosts in front this time.

However, Sa made an excellent save low down to his left and Nelson Semedo blocked a goalbound effort to keep it level.

Those squandered chances proved significant as Wolves sprang a quick counter-attack with Pedro Neto pulling the ball back for Gomes to side-foot home what proved to be the winning goal.

The hosts pushed for a late leveller, but Micky van de Ven and Ben Davies missed chances late on as the visitors held on for the victory.

"We were close to perfect," said a delighted O'Neil. "I'm proud of the group. It's a tough place to come and we deserved to win.

"We knew we could get Hwang [Hee-chan] and Pedro in behind and we thought we could play through the press. We pretty much envisaged it how we got it.

"But we were more than just counter-attacking and when we had the ball we caused them loads of problems and kept missing chances. I was a little bit frustrated that we weren't more clinical but we kept going and kept threatening."

Spurs began the day in fourth place, but Aston Villa's 2-1 win at Fulham saw them move above Ange Postecoglou's side.