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Graeme Souness has shot down claims that Tottenham Hotspur are out of the Premier League title race.

Spurs' 3-1 defeat to Wolves on Saturday left them nine points adrift of leaders Liverpool and two behind second-placed Manchester City, with the top two playing each other on Thursday.

However, former Liverpool legend Souness believes Spurs are far from out of the race and the Sky Sports pundit backed Mauricio Pochettino's team to bounce back quickly.

"I come back to it, when we saw them play against Everton, eight, nine days ago, they weren’t good, they weren’t very good, they were absolutely brilliant, in all aspects of their game and if they come anywhere near that today, and between now and the end of the season they’ll be back challenging again," he said.

"One bad result and people are putting a line through their name. Football is not like that, these are good players and they were playing with their tails up until they met Wolves, and these games they can happen to you, you have one bad day at the office where everything seems to go wrong."

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He explained what he wanted to see from Spurs in their first match of 2019 against Cardiff.

"I’m looking for Tottenham to show a real reaction," he explained. "When you’ve got aspirations to be successful at the highest level, when you get beaten it really hurts you and the next time you want to be bang at it and show the manager and supporters that what happened against Wolves was just one of those things that happens in football.

"When you get beaten you’re so angry with yourself you want to play the following morning, they hurt. Lesser players don’t hurt so much when you have a bad result.

"Everyone was talking about them as potential champions, how wonderful they were and all of a sudden here’s a little reminder you’re not so fantastic, so for that group they’ve got to go and prove it all again, build momentum again and have people talk about them as potential champions again."

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