Leicester 0-3 Wolves: Verdict Thread

[Donegal Wolf]

Think today shows we have a decent chance of staying up purely because of how bad the promoted teams are. As it stands all we actually need to do is get more points than Leicester and Ipswich and neither look like getting more than 30. Of course we don’t either but at least we likely aren’t looking at 40 points to stay up which would be impossible.

Point a game will give us 33, that might be enough, can't see Ipswich having enough about them to get that & Leicester won't unless they drop Van Rooney very quickly.

 

[ROVERT47]

I think the introduction of a Portuguese Coach is gonna be a big influence on some of our players.

 

[leedswolf]

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[Jinky]

Still think we have a balance issue in defence. We look a bit lop-sided, but big fan of Vítor pushing Semedo back in to the wing back role and letting Doc use his height/experience in the middle. Semedo/Guedes on that right side were quality in the first half. Toti shocking throughout.

Really hoping we get a couple of defenders through the door nice and early in January.

Really though, a clean sheet and a convincing 0-3 away win is exactly what we all needed. Leicester were absolutely abysmal, but that’s not our problem. Would love back to back wins for Vítor - Utd aren’t all that, so let’s keep everything crossed. I do still think our defence is an issue, even with the added organisation given to them by a proper manager.

 

[jd1981]

After watching the highlights Leicester were an absolute shambles and are now getting the results that their performances warrant.
We took advantage of it and kept a clean sheet, reality is we should’ve won by more.
Looked a bit more resilient but the level of opposition helped.
Just annoying that we’ve burned so many matches with the previous coaching staff.
If we go down it’ll be fully down to us wasting this peroid when we should’ve changed it.
The 3 promoted sides again just aren’t very good at all and probably won’t break the bank to survive in January either.

 

[prawnking]

Merry Christmas mate

 

[Jabbawolf]

Didn’t watch game, but comments here don’t seem to chime with this team of the week….

 

[prawnking]

After watching the highlights Leicester were an absolute shambles and are now getting the results that their performances warrant.
We took advantage of it and kept a clean sheet, reality is we should’ve won by more.
Looked a bit more resilient but the level of opposition helped.
Just annoying that we’ve burned so many matches with the previous coaching staff.
If we go down it’ll be fully down to us wasting this peroid when we should’ve changed it.
The 3 promoted sides again just aren’t very good at all and probably won’t break the bank to survive in January either.

Ispwich aren't good enough either and we contrived to lose a home game against them just last week

I don't think we can be sniffy about any kind of win atm, yesterday was only number 3 of the season, and the first clean sheet away for almost a year!

It's fine to celebrate proportionately imo

 

[The Saturday Boy]

I thought the 3 in defence played well collectively, they are all just limited players.

J Gomes and Andre played as a pair and I think looked better without Lemina. R Gomes didn’t look out of place and Semedo was peak Doherty.

Larsen, Cunha and Guedes has too much quality for Leicester.

Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich aren’t good enough to stay up, we do have the players who can win games…but also a few who can lose games. A handful of key signings next month and we should be able to be better than the three promoted teams…but we still need to reverse what has become a slow terminal decline, we can’t keep losing our better players and think we will improve.

I thought Leicester we’re the worst side I have seen this season, and I’ve seen Wolves.

 

[prawnking]

On another note, I'm enjoying the new Jeff Shi song from the away fans yesterday...not offensive, upbeat and positive but with a barb. Hope it pisses the little twat right off

 

[AndyWolves]

On another note, I'm enjoying the new Jeff Shi song from the away fans yesterday...not offensive, upbeat and positive but with a barb. Hope it pisses the little twat right off

Makes the point without turning the atmosphere poisonous against the team

 

[SSB]

On another note, I'm enjoying the new Jeff Shi song from the away fans yesterday...not offensive, upbeat and positive but with a barb. Hope it pisses the little twat right off

Been saying for a while all we needed was a catchy little song. Presume we’ve nicked it off someone else?

 

[prawnking]

Spurs maybe? Don't quote me on that though

 

[Jeb01]

You are right, but it was 6-1 iirc

If memory serves me, we won two away games at Bristol City in consecutive seasons with scores of 6 - 1 and 5 - 1.
I’m not sure which order they were in, but I think it was as above.

I was at the second of these games, which (I’m pretty sure) was Colin Lee’s first in charge after McGhee left, and I think it was also the three little pigs vs Wolfie clash at half time (still the best half time entertainment ever).

Oddly, I think we were losing 1 - 0 at half time.

Happy days!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If memory serves me, we won two away games at Bristol City in consecutive seasons with scores of 6 - 1 and 5 - 1.
I’m not sure which order they were in, but I think it was as above.

I was at the second of these games, which (I’m pretty sure) was Colin Lee’s first in charge after McGhee left, and I think it was also the three little pigs vs Wolfie clash at half time (still the best half time entertainment ever).

Oddly, I think we were losing 1 - 0 at half time.

Happy days!

We won 5-1 at Ashton Gate in November 1994. They got relegated that season and were away for a few years...the next time we played there was November 1998 and we won 6-1.

We also won 4-1 there under Solbakken in December 2012.

 

[Jeb01]

We won 5-1 at Ashton Gate in November 1994. They got relegated that season and were away for a few years...the next time we played there was November 1998 and we won 6-1.

We also won 4-1 there under Solbakken in December 2012.

Ok thanks for that clarification.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Ok thanks for that clarification.

We have such a good record against Bristol City.

Also the side that Bull scored the most goals against?

 

[Alan]

That 4-1 under Solbakken was the last/only time Doyle/Siggy looked up to their potential, at least in my mind.

 

[slink]

Bit late to the party here but yesterday felt different even before kick off. There was a sense we could win in the away end and although we’re not Wolves FC the new song definitely helped with the atmosphere.

As for the game, we looked like a team that didn’t have much confidence early on but that soon faded and the goals really helped. It was great to see us actually set up with a bit of structure and less chaos than we got with GON. Also good to see how we often pressed in pairs and if one didn’t win it the other did and you could see the players have definitely responded to the change.

There’s still loads to work on obviously and the back 3 will need reinforcements but we’ve got lots of positives in forward areas and now we should have a structure and some patterns of play in the games to come.

In terms of the players,

• Sa looked much more comfortable.
• Doc had a pretty solid game after a poor first 10.
• Toti and Bueno aren’t good enough for various reason but did a job.
• Andre is so good when not asked to cover the whole midfield by himself. Think the criticism of him has been bizarre after the Bournemouth and Ipswich games.
• Joao has so much energy and it will be interesting to see how we use that more effectively and sensibly.
• Semedo did Semedo things. Solid, threatened to do more going forward but just never seems to have the conviction in those areas.
• Rodrigo looks like he will be excellent as he plays more.
• Guedes looks a really solid player at the moment and Larsen occupies centre backs pretty well even if he’s not always effective.
• For a player who struggles off the ball, Cunha was outstanding second half working for the team and his body language was worlds apart at the end from what it had been.

Moving forward i really hope the supporters get behind this team, even when things have been bad I don’t think they’ve ever really given up and most of them always looked like they were trying even if they weren’t sure they could do what GON had asked them to do. It’s important that they feel supported now and we try to make Molineux a fortress again along with being a threat away from home.

 

[Tony Towner]

I remember meeting Leon Clarke at the Carlyon Bay Hotel in Cornwall when he was with Palace. He was amazed I knew who he was.

Probably because he didn't play for Palace