By LisaWWFC
August 16 2002

Wolves welcome Stan Tenants Burnley to Molineux on Saturday. Both teams had a disappointing end to last season with Wolves missing out on promotion and Burnley failing to reach the play offs by a single goal. Wolves have had an encouraging start to the season claiming 4 points from their first 2 games, while Burnley had a torrid time at home to Brighton losing all 3 points.

Dave Jones has no fresh injury worries from the Walsall match and is expected to field an unchanged side, with Paul Ince expected to feature on the bench. Miller is expected to continue to partner Blake upfront despite the impressive contributions as substitutes.

Meanwhile Burnley have a few worries with question marks hanging over Tony Grant as well as the injured Brad Mayletta and Gordon Armstrong, But they welcome back Glen Little and Paul Weller who are expected to be passed fit for the Clarets.

In recent fixtures, wolves have cruised to comfortable victories over the Clarets, but Jones warns that is irrelevant in the past and this is a new season with new teams.

Last seasons molineux game saw Wolves as worthy 3-0 winners, with which a similar score line would be welcomed by the Molineux faithful.

On paper, wolves should come out as easy winners but Burnley have some very good players - Glen Little, Paul Weller to name a few, but Wolves have their own star players in the name of Kenny Miller, Ivar Ingimarrson and Joleon Lescott who can and will cause problems for Burnley.

I predict a hard fought match with Wolves enjoying a victory and 3 more points towards promotion

Wolves Star man - Kenny Miller
Burnleys star man - Glen Little

Prediction 2-0 Wolves