General Wolves News

[Lupo]

I have been wearing a 1974 Wembley shirt the past few games, we had a 100% win record too until that stuffy Everton goal on Saturday

 

[Johnny75]

You can't tell me our 2018-present efforts aren't yellow in comparison.

The 93/4 shirt was horrific and orange.

The new kits are what football is supposed to be played in imo.

Can't be doing with collars on football kits, they look ridiculous. You wouldn't wear a collared t-shirt to the gym or out for a run.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The 93/4 shirt was horrific

Waits until he hasn't got to see me for three months to make this statement...

 

[Mel Evo]

The 93/4 shirt was horrific and orange.

The new kits are what football is supposed to be played in imo.

Can't be doing with collars on football kits, they look ridiculous. You wouldn't wear a collared t-shirt to the gym or out for a run.

Well my tie is going to be flapping about everywhere in the gym if that's the new rule, so I don't really see how that works? Granted I'll remove my jacket but come on man, standards!

 

[Tredman]

The 93/4 shirt was horrific and orange.

The new kits are what football is supposed to be played in imo.

Can't be doing with collars on football kits, they look ridiculous. You wouldn't wear a collared t-shirt to the gym or out for a run.

Absolutely this. Sheer madness in putting some weird collar on for no reason. We'll go back to laces if we're not careful ffs

 

[Tony Towner]

So in summary Johnson came across like he was lying and MGW didn't turn up to lie. Next season against them is going to be toxic

Podence FA charge for allegedly spitting at Johnson dismissed

Wolves forward Daniel Podence has been cleared of spitting at Nottingham Forest’s Brennan Johnson following an FA hearing today. Podence was charged by the Football Association with spitting at Johnson during an ill-tempered 1-1 draw at The City Ground on April 1. But Podence attended a personal...

theathletic.com

 

[machin05]

Absolutely this. Sheer madness in putting some weird collar on for no reason. We'll go back to laces if we're not careful ffs

Wouldn't be totally against that, tbh

 

[Tredman]

Wouldn't be totally against that, tbh

There's always one, will expect to see you in one of these

 

[machin05]

Not even a laced collar is saving that colourway

 

[Alan]

Not even a laced collar is saving that colourway

On the contrary, I say that colorway saves it from the laces!

 

[Jinky]

For those of you who like reading about xG, this is fairly grim reading.

The job has only just started for Lop.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1659581399131648000

https://twitter.com/x/status/1659826618091675649

 

[Kenny]

For those of you who like reading about xG,

@Johnny75

 

[Alan]

Would be interested in how the analysis changes if you treat Brighton as an outlier.

Still, don’t think anyone will be hugely surprised that we’re a bit shit at attacking.

 

[Jinky]

Would be interested in how the analysis changes if you treat Brighton as an outlier.

Still, don’t think anyone will be hugely surprised that we’re a bit shit at attacking.

Worse under Lop, according to the ‘data’ (!) - although thankfully we all have eyes.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

From Understat, match by match xG under Lopetegui:

Wolves 0.59-2.45 Man Utd (0-1)
Aston Villa 1.03-0.83 Wolves (1-1)
Wolves 0.81-0.74 West Ham (1-0)
Man City 3.33-0.47 Wolves (3-0)
Wolves 2.63-1.30 Liverpool (3-0)
Southampton 1.30-0.62 Wolves (1-2)
Wolves 0.91-1.15 Bournemouth (0-1)
Fulham 0.91-1.00 Wolves (1-1)
Liverpool 2.70-0.79 Wolves (2-0)
Wolves 0.56-1.26 Tottenham (1-0)
Newcastle 2.46-0.71 Wolves (2-1)
Wolves 2.76-1.65 Leeds (2-4)
Nottingham Forest 1.11-0.38 Wolves (1-1)
Wolves 0.60-0.82 Chelsea (1-0)
Wolves 0.94-1.51 Brentford (2-0)
Leicester 2.67-0.60 Wolves (2-1)
Wolves 1.13-0.58 Crystal Palace (2-0)
Brighton 3.60-0.60 Wolves (6-0)
Wolves 0.81-1.50 Aston Villa (1-0)
Man Utd 3.10-0.27 Wolves (2-0)
Wolves 1.29-2.47 Everton (1-1)

As ever with xG there are some that just don't fit with what we actually watched. How was Bournemouth's xG that high, they scored off basically their only attack and it hit Tavernier and went in? It implies that Leicester battered us when they quite obviously didn't, I'd say Brighton's xG should have been even higher than that and Everton's at the weekend looks miles too high as well.

 

[Tredman]

Bloody Leeds. Hope they get relegated and don't come back.

 

[Kenny]

Trying to think of Everton's chances!

Obvs the goal

Before that DCL header that went over, should have hit the target. Rest were half chances, mainly in the first half, which inc a ghost goal (love them) but can't recall any that were as clear as the 2 chances for Sarabia had, the Podence chance and then Nunes after his run and I think Traore had a decent chance saved a few mins after our goal

 

[YoungWolf]

Understat isn’t very good I don’t think. Better using fbref I think as they use statsbomb data which is the usually the strongest.

It’s still a very short sample size with Julen I would say and having come in mid-season. After the summer, we should have close to what looks like ‘his team’, so we’ll be able to judge better then.

 

[Keef]

Podence cleared of spitting during the forest game, lack of convincing evidence

 

[Kenny]

Podence cleared of spitting during the forest game, lack of convincing evidence

Morning Liam...