We managed four wins on the bounce this time last season, which briefly catapulted us from the bottom half right up towards the play-offs.
A repeat would be nice and with two winnable home games to come after victory at Forest, there’s certainly an opportunity to put a run together.
Still, it’s probably optimistic to think our consistently inconsistent team will overcome both Bristol City and QPR. History also tells us to be wary.
The last time we had back-to-back home games in Christmas week we got well and truly sorted out by both Peterborough and Ipswich on the way down to League One.
All things considered, I’m permitting myself to feel cautiously optimistic.
Bristol City
If Wolves win this match, they’ll move ahead of Lee Johnson’s side and he’ll know as well as anybody history is against his side in this fixture.
They haven’t tasted victory at Molineux since 1931, which is a 19 game run. And despite the odd home win in that time, you can definitely call us their bogey team.
Much like Wolves, they’re not air tight defensively or prolific going forward so it’s anyone’s guess how this match will unfold.
On loan Chelsea forward Tammy Abraham was banging in the goals early doors, but seems to have found the going tougher lately. I’m looking forward to seeing what he has to offer.
Wolves
Paul Lambert is obviously a fan of changing his team to combat the opposition rather than sticking to a rigid preferred eleven. He said as much after the victories against QPR and Forest. I wonder what he has in store for this one?
The team that started at the City Ground was surprisingly attack-minded with the only disappointment being we didn’t create a fat lot aside from the two goals that went in.
There’s a lot of pace and mobility in forward positions, which is something we haven’t seen enough of particularly at Molineux.
Conor Coady was a surprise choice at full back but isn’t a bad short term solution with Silvio injured, Borthwick-Jackson out of favour and Dominic Iorfa struggling for form.
It would be great to see Bright Enobakhare and Connor Ronan play a part. They both have the talent to make a meaningful impact in the here and now.
Paul Lambert
Predictions
QPR seems like the more winnable of these two winnable festive home fixtures so I’ll play it safe with a draw this time.
I think City have some good individual talent in their ranks, like Tammy Abraham and Lee Tomlin, so they possess enough firepower to cause damage if we allow it to happen.
It’s complete finger in the air guesswork right now given how up and down the performances have been.
2-2.
Up The Wolves!
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