Wolves 2-1 Newcastle: Verdict Thread

[Dinowolf]

FYI
The match is being shown in its' entirety on Sky Sport PL HD (402) from 10:30 p.m. tonight

Now from 12 a.m.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Why would you go on the toll road from Newcastle? A1, M18, M1, A38, A5 then whatever route you chose from there

Toll road will show as a quicker alternative to the A5 to get past Cannock if your satnav isn't set to avoid tolls.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

We need the goal music when Hwang scores so I don't have to hear that God awful racial stereotype chant. Or a load of other racial slurs that people class as "banter"

I haven't heard the chants but if they're anything like what I've seen the suggested ones on Facebook they can do one, embarrassing to see shit like that.

 

[Tony Towner]

Bear is taking some shit here

 

[Boozad]

No bad chats today, 'worst' that was aimed at Hwang was 'Oh Hwang Hee Hwang Hee. Hwang Hee Wanderer'. Massive improvement on wanky Wanderers to be fair. Although most songs are.

 

[Jack Regan]

No bad chats today, 'worst' that was aimed at Hwang was 'Oh Hwang Hee Hwang Hee. Hwang Hee Wanderer'. Massive improvement on wanky Wanderers to be fair. Although most songs are.

Obviously missed the Labrador one that's been doing the rounds then? Although to be fair that was mostly on the way back to town and in the pub afterwards.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Great, I can forsee arguments.

 

[Boozad]

Obviously missed the Labrador one that's been doing the rounds then? Although to be fair that was mostly on the way back to town and in the pub afterwards.

Yes. I was on about in the ground.

 

[redvictor]

Angry Geordie. <—skip to 3.30

Big fan of opposition fans melting down after defeats. Especially as he moans about having to drive to Birmingham

Quality! Toll road to get here though. Bad choice...

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Saves about 3 minutes on the way out, pointless on the way in as you have to join all the traffic at Cannock.

Anyway if we're bham you're just a plastic Mackem.

Thought Jiminez was immense today, I had my doubts but he's really back to where he was, linking up well with Hwang too. I wonder if Nuno did veto the original deal

 

[Boozad]

Raul’s assist for the first goal was nothing short of world class. Strength, determination, sublime pass. Fucking brilliant stuff. The he topped it off by doing it again.

Two top drawer finishes from Hwang as well. The second was better than the first. Beautiful to see.

 

[sycophantia]

Well after seeing the replay in motd, it appeared to me Sa got a boot in the face, not intentional but surely the ref has to stop the game if there is a potential head injury?

 

[Lichens]

If Hwang can finish like that he’s a huge difference maker. How many times have we gotten into positions like those and failed to convert over the past year.

 

[Lichens]

Well after seeing the replay in motd, it appeared to me Sa got a boot in the face, not intentional but surely the ref has to stop the game if there is a potential head injury?

Yes I thought so too. I feel like Sa was down well long enough for it to be stopped, and by the time he got up it was never going to be stopped anyway.

 

[Leigh Griffiths' Hairline]

Hwang was immense, he's a great player to watch. Unreal engine on him, chases down every lost cause, is strong in the tackle, has good pace and is a good dribbler. Today also proved that he's a cool finisher and knows how to put away a chance. His link-up play with Raul was excellent, and they clearly enjoy paying together.

Raul looked completely back to his old self. Strong, confident. lovely flicks and through balls. Clearly he was being weighted down massively by the lack of goals, and it looks like he's fully regained match fitness - kudos to Bruno for being patient and believing in him (though we don't really have any other options up front anyway...).

I'm still not sold on Neves and Moutinho through the middle, and I think we lack physicality there. I would prefer Donck/Moutinho at the moment. Joao had a really good game - made some imnportant interceptions and his distribution was excellent. Neves was, unfortunately, sloppy in possession and gave the ball away cheaply for their goal, and there was other moments in the game towards the end when he gave away possession.

I didn't think Trincao was as bad as many in the thread thought. He's too easily knocked off the ball though and needs to be stronger in possession. There's a player in him though. Needs to be scoring that chance. I think our team has better balance with him starting ting over Traore, as we almost always revery to type of long ball to Adama, who runs at the defender and then loses the ball. Tbh I would not be overly disappointed if we sold Adama, and I am not convinced we should be blowing 100k a week on a player with minimal end product.

Semedo was okay, though didn;t do much going forward. There were multiple times that he had acres of space to run into and just didn't. Not sure whether that was tactical. Marcal probably had his best game all season, which isn't saying much. He was solid in defence, but still doesn't offer much going forward.

The back 3 were solid. Kilman was absolutely excellent against ASM, read him extremely well and dispossesed him mutliple times. Boly is not getting back into the side any time soon. Coady and Saiss had a fairly quiet game, and the back three in general were relatively untroubled.

Sa is a funny one - reminds me of early De Gea at United. He moves quite erratically, always looks like he's rushing his kicks or about to lose possession, but in fact his distribution is excellent. Fantastic save in the second half to deny ?ASM. Brave goalkeeping vs Joelinton, and looked like he was genuinely in pain. Ref should be stopping play at that point to be honest - could have easily been a head injury. However their goal was completely of our own making not being able to effectively clearl their lines, plus Sa still being down. Cracking finish right into the bottom corner though.

All in all - much better. Passing in general was a million times better than the last few games, and we looked more like how we played in the first 3 games. Bruno has clearly adapted the style to be more conservative and proves that he knows to grind out results. I like him, intelligent coach, and has clearly realised that we do not currently have the players to be able to play the swashbuckling football that we signed him for. My main criticism today was the lack of use of the bench. Midfield and attack was starting to tire in the second half and we were giving away possession easily. We should have bought Adama on way earlier, and maybe Donck to provide more steel in the midfield. Adama is a great sub to bring on towards the end of games - his pace stretches the opposition defence, and provides a good counter-attascking outlet. He looked mightily pissed off when he came on, and apparently had a right old tantrum down the tunnel...

 

[Wolf of Ashford]

When you see the replay of their goal...... as we half clear our lines, Sa is still down and the ref puts the whistle to his lips to stop the game for Sa to get treatment...... then Sa jumps up to try and get back so the ref let's the game continue.

Obviously no way for Sa to know the ref was about to blow, but just another element to a ridiculous sequence of events!

Ref was a shambles all game. Newcastle taking a free kick for offside 10 yards inside our half a particular lowlight.

Good performance overall though. Important to have got these two wins to put little gap between us and the teams at the bottom

 

[Leigh Griffiths' Hairline]

Chant for Hwang brainistorming idea...

Hwang Hee-Chan is coming to town

(to the tune of Santa Claus is coming to town...)

I'll get my coat.

 

[WsWolf]

No bad chats today, 'worst' that was aimed at Hwang was 'Oh Hwang Hee Hwang Hee. Hwang Hee Wanderer'. Massive improvement on wanky Wanderers to be fair. Although most songs are.

Hwang, Hwang will tear you apart again would be my preference.

 

[AndyWolves]

Last night Hwang Hee-Chan came round
He played football with Raul and the gang
Ryan Ait-Nouri and Max Kilman
Called in for a while as well

 

[Banjo]

I was hoping we'd have had a post of the Korean commentary for Hwangs goals by now.

See if this highlights package works (might not as I'm in Korea right now so not sure if it's blocked worldwide)

EDIT: should work if you follow the link to YouTube, just won't embed into the forum: