I find it interesting that there's such a big difference between how Wolves fans think at the minute. I've tried to step away from looking at comments after every game this season so far because i think the criticism of both the team and players in general is getting out of hand and doesn't really look rational most of the time. Personally i thought we would finish in the top half this season and probably in the top 8 if we perform as we can and get the luck you undoubtedly need throughout the season and i'm more than happy with where we are right now.
We aren't perfect and as yesterday showed our problem isn't playing against the teams below us or the "poor" teams but more a problem of playing against sides that sit back and restrict the space our fullbacks get, particularly Doc. We then have a real reluctance to play through the middle at times which had changed when Jota hit form but yesterday in the first half in particular we again refused to go through the middle. This changed after half time and if you look at the goal that's where we need Costa, Cav, Jota, Traore etc, within the width of the box. Nuno and the players are still learning, most of them have never played at this level and at this intensity, yes they have played a high level but the Premier League is a different beast and players have said as much, Patricio mentioned this not long ago.
On yesterday's game, Fulham aren't the team they were under Jokanovic and won't be under Ranieri. They are going to try and be defensively solid while looking to counter and i'm not sure they are going to be good enough to stay up doing it but they aren't going to be leaking goals left, right and centre as they were. We started quite well to be fair and had the ref done his job we would have possibly been a goal up through a penalty and then the game changes. We then let Fulham in by not penetrating and they got a bit of confidence but couldn't score and their goal came completely against the run of play.
We do need to find better solutions of breaking teams down and we do need to find better ways of dealing with big, physical strikers getting up against Coady but we're 19 games in to our first Premier League season with this squad and a young one at that. Fans expecting us to go away from home and routinely beat teams just because they are below us are watching the wrong sport and aren't thinking rationally. Sport, football, the Premier League just isn't that simple, if it was it would be boring and it wouldn't be what it is.
I think criticism is fine but you have to have reasons behind that criticism to be taken seriously in my opinion and there's a real lack of reasoning in most fans criticism, it's just that we should be beating these teams. Break the game down, what should we do better, what did the other team do well because there's another team out there trying to beat us and we aren't good enough to just turn up and expect to win.
