Wolves 0-1 Bournemouth: Verdict Thread

[The Bear]

Dreadful. As much threat as a fart in a hurricane.

Awful awareness by Kilman on the goal, letting the guy run behind and ahead of him to score.

This team still desperately needs a central presence in the box. We'll be scrapping and shithousing our way to safety for the rest of the season because of it.

 

[Derby Wolf]

34 games since a striker scored a goal for us from open play. Nearly a full Premier League calender.

Neglect the most important area on the pitch and this is what invariably happens.

 

[big mean bunny]

I had the nervous wary feeling ahead of this as it seemed like all had been forgotten about us previously being bottom and we were getting fair too many plaudits. Bournemouth came with a plan and have executed it.

It was never going to be as easy as just pulling away from the bottom.

 

[Alan]

No doubt about it, that's about as bad a result as it gets.

The performance for 70ish minutes was fine, good even. But the minute we went 4-4-2 the players all went into desperation mode.

We've talked a bit recently about how it is Ruben is still here. I think matches like today are the answer.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Terrible result, terrible 2nd half performance, terrible results from other games and a terrible goal to concede. Scored by the worst player on the pitch by an absolute mile too. All in all a very frustrating afternoon.

 

[jd1981]

If the object of the game were to keep the ball for as long as possible we’d win most weeks.
Reality is that was a toothless load of rubbish.
Yes it was smash and grab a bit, but we weren’t banging the door down we created few clear cut chances.
Just about as bad a day as it could’ve been with the set of results and one that plunged back down amongst everyone else.
Also to note next 3 games are Fulham (a), Liverpool (a) Spurs (h)
As good as the upturn has been recently today is a strong reminder that we are still in great danger of going down.

 

[Dire Wolf]

If the object of the game were to keep the ball for as long as possible we’d win most weeks.
Reality is that was a toothless load of rubbish.
Yes it was smash and grab a bit, but we weren’t banging the door down we created few clear cut chances.
Just about as bad a day as it could’ve been with the set of results and one that plunged back down amongst everyone else.
Also to note next 3 games are Fulham (a), Liverpool (a) Spurs (h)
As good as the upturn has been recently today is a strong reminder that we are still in great danger of going down.

Yep, could see us getting 0 points from those 3games.

 

[YoungWolf]

How not to chase a goal, embarrassing

 

[Alan]

Yep, could see us getting 0 points from those 3games.

Okay, today was bad but we're getting Lemina back and Julen will have taken some big lessons, I expect.

We'll be okay, it's still in our hands and I think we've got the right group to navigate this.

 

[WsWolf]

If the object of the game were to keep the ball for as long as possible we’d win most weeks.
Reality is that was a toothless load of rubbish.
Yes it was smash and grab a bit, but we weren’t banging the door down we created few clear cut chances.
Just about as bad a day as it could’ve been with the set of results and one that plunged back down amongst everyone else.
Also to note next 3 games are Fulham (a), Liverpool (a) Spurs (h)
As good as the upturn has been recently today is a strong reminder that we are still in great danger of going down.

We've looked good when teams actually come and play against us as they leave space for us to attack.

 

[Walnut]

Their goalkeeper will not get an easier game. The last 20 minutes we were very poor in possession .

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Those results have dragged us right back in it just when I thought we were going to pull clear.

Our lack of goal scoring forwards is getting embarrassing. We seem to have agreed a deal to pay a fortune for a #10 who doesn’t score with the idea of playing him up front.

Forest are making me irrationally angry too.

 

[jd1981]

it’s a massive opportunity missed a win would’ve put us 7 points clear and genuine breathing space. Now we’re right back in the mixer with 4 tough games coming up.
Unfortunately today probably means we’re in this for the duration.

 

[prawnking]

Not the first home game to pan out this way since promotion.

If we stay up, Lopetegui needs to jettison the flatter-to-deceivers and past-their-bests quickly if he aspires for more than mid-table

 

[jd1981]

Ourselves and Chelsea have thrown a grenade into the relegation battle today.
I hate being in relegation battles and having to look over multiple other results as well as your own each weekend.

 

[slink]

Keep picking unbalanced sides with players asked to do jobs they can’t do and you’re going to struggle. Julen realised his mistake last week and made good substitutions, this week he got all those wrong as well meaning we could still be playing now and we wouldn’t have scored.

Moutinho shouldn’t be starting now especially as a nothing number 10. Cunha is not a 9 but could be very effective off a striker. We missed Lemina to sit and control, Neves and Matheus asked to be everywhere and it just didn’t work and neither did Sarabia either.

One of those games but Julen has to get back to picking a balanced side in some way shape or form hopefully starting with a very tough game next week.

 

[Tredman]

There’s no solution to our lack of a striker.

 

[Aikiwolf]

Shite. Sarabia was absolute mince, replacing Adama instead of him was a poor decision.

Podence was anonymous when he came on and we have more proof that Cunha isn't a lone striker.

At least we had 8 flags being waved in SL pre game.

 

[prawnking]

Sticking with two totally shot no. 9's for the rest of the season is not going to do us any favours

 

[Tom Hark]

Today really couldn't have gone much worse. Talk about deja vu. How many times have we performed like this against rubbish in the past? I thought we'd seen the last of that under Julen but, no, still as toothless as Old Man Steptoe after a packet of Toffos.