We all know Moutinho is capable of turning water into wine, so you’d think a chap going by the name of Jesus could magic up something a little better than Aldi’s £2 range. The intensity we began with; playing on the front foot (refreshing to see a fast start), unsettling a clueless Southampton defence with […]
Regaining control
Thomas’ write-up of the Everton game rightly detailed a lack of poise and control; summed up by an erratic midfield. Nuno’s philosophy is built on ‘controlling the game’ – in and out of possession – but we’ve not seen enough of that in the first month of the new Premier League season. As adept as […]
Up and coming
With the Europa League qualifiers a little over three weeks away, there’s been talk from Jeff Shi concerning the importance of the U23s. With that mind, here I assess both the state of the current squad and what positions the U23s might be called upon to fill. Goalkeepers Nothing doing here. Rui Patricio is our […]
The last leg
Saturday 11 March 2017, Wolves 1 Rotherham 0. One point above the Championship relegation zone, the players booed off. Paul Lambert serving up some of the worse dross Molineux had seen in many a year. Two years later and we’re in the midst of Nuno’s beautiful dream. Wolves are the seventh best team in the […]
Moving forward
Calls on social media to solve our goalscoring woes by ‘simply’ axing Raul Jimenez and replacing him with a fox in the box has certainly left me baffled. We should all know by now that Nuno expects his number nine to lead the line and link the play, a fox in the box will never […]
Numbers game
‘There is no game I recall that we changed. That tells a lot about what the players believe. If you change, it doesn’t make sense.’ ‘Changes doesn’t mean anything for us; we keep the same style, we keep the same ideas and philosophy and game by game, it doesn’t matter what competition (it is).’ Those were […]
