It could be a tricky challenge for Wolves as they travel to Norwich for today's Premier League game. Dean Smith has now taken over as Norwich Manager and has helped lift his club from bottom position in the League following a home win over Southampton.
Wolves of course are also bouyant following their home win over West Ham last week and currently sit in 6th place in the League, but most fans will surely see this game as a potential banana skin game. Wolves have of course already beaten a Dean Smith team when they won at Villa Park, and they have a good record of results at Carrow Road in past seasons.
Coach Bruno Lage is running short of options in defence with the news that Willy Boly has once again joined Jonny and Jerson Mosquera on the treatment benches following another muscular injury. Bruno will surely be hoping not to sustain any injuries to his currently trusted back three. However Marcal and Bruno Jordao are back in training, although the latter is not yet ready for first team action. No further injuries concerns are known of. Fans will also be aware that there is only a short window before the next game at home against Burnley on Wednesday.
Today's game kick's off at 3pm and will be refereed by Simon Hooper with Jonathan Moss responsible for VAR
This board will endeavour to carry regular updates on the progress of today's game, and board members are encouraged to post their own observations for the benefit of those otherwise unable to follow the match.
I am optimistic about this afternoons game feeling that we have a stronger depth of squad than the Canaries and should be able to prevail over the ninety minutes.
Will be nice to see some of the fabulous play from last week replicated again this afternoon and if we can do that it should be a good match to watch.
As Bruno said recently “I just want points “ and I think we will get them so fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong.
Afternoon All Seemingly Daniel Podence has as suspected tested positive for COVID so is unavailable today. I would like to see Trink get the goal some of his play has deserved to spark his season off.
Streams a bit in and out today. Just started watching properly . Had the Newbury 3pm winner at 40/1 happy days …… would like to see Wolves replicate now!!
Less than convincing from what I’ve seen from us. Norwich are pressing but don’t look great. Good piece of play from us, spoilt by 2 poor crosses, one from Semedo then the other from RAN. 18 minutes gone.
Wolves attack breaks down and City break but Pukki needs too long and is robbed by CC. 20 mins gon and an enjoyable game so far. City player Norman is down injured and may need to be replaced.
Billy Gilmour brings down Hwang & gets the 1st yellow card of the afternoon. Hwanng lucky to get away without a yellow neorealism a foul on Arrons. Then Neves fouls Pukki and he does get a yellow
Free kick put wide by Rashica from a decent position ten yds outside our box.
Good play across the City box until Raul over hits a pass in the box for NS.
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Great pressing by Raul leads to a couple of chances & in the end Krull stops a long range shot by Joao. Corner to Wolves goes to CC and he tries to volley it but way too high. Great run by Arrons and he gets a shot away but we’ll dealt with by Jose
Half time whistle goes after a quite entertaining 1st half. Fairly even possession wise and both teams have had chances and shots. Hoping now that Wolves have a typically improved second half and get some results for their attacking intent. Trink has made some good runs as has Hwang but little end product from either of them.
Norwich 0 Wolves 0
Semedo now booked for pulling down ? Just outside the box. Dangerous ….. a bit of a scramble and bounces off for a corner ….. Norwich pressure relieved by a Coady clearance
Rashica does Semedo who then fouls him and gets a yellow card. Free kick in a dangerous position is blocked and eventually goes for a corner, which ends up with Krull.
Have to say, sadly, that Norwich are on the up again. We’re they a better side, they’d be winning. They’ve just had a spell of pressure which started when in a good position RAN ran into trouble.
Norwich pressure continues …… their corner and crowd vocal. Raul clears the corner. Donk coming on soon, apparently
Semedo off & Donk on, which could be risky as Rashica has been one of City’s best players down our right wing. Dreadful pass from Hwang when he could have set Neves up in their area. Solid keeping by Jose when needed.
Raul brought down in the area after getting a shot away but no VAR review apparently!! Pukki gets on the end of a cross but can’t direct it towards goal.
A match low on quality, Norwich demonstrating their league position, that is a better side would have beaten us today - just based on the couple of chances they did create.
We weren’t very good at all. Too many average performances out their today. By the time Traore did get on, the counter attacks primarily of the first half had already fizzled out, then he was switched to RWB.
Oh dear, looks like storm Arwen knocked the stuffing out of us. Burnley on Wednesday.
All over and Wolves who remain unbeaten but it’s a disappointing result really. City played well but we’re largely blunt up front. Wolves showed little imagination in attack and our forwards were provided with very little service from midfield. Ait Nouri had some promising opportunities but his decision making was questionable. Traore had a run out but will no doubt have been frustrated to have to play at wing back.
We will need to play considerably better than this on Wednesday to beat Burnley at Molineux, particularly after last season’s result against them!!
Norwich 0 Wolves 0
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Well that was an uninspiring outing fairly solid I suppose but seriously lacking a cutting-edge up front although service from our midfield was virtually nonexistent.
A point is a point though so not all was lost.
Satisfied with a draw in the end as Norwich were the better team. After playing so well last week, this inconsistency is frustrating.
We continue to not concede many, which is good, but a better side than Norwich would probably have scored. After singing Semedo's praises last week, this week he was poor, as was Ait-Nouri. Hwang was quiet and yet to be convinced by Trincao. Traore no impression. On the other hand, Sa, Coady and Neves played well and the rest no more than solid.
It's another point though, but we will have to play better on Wednesday.
Typical wolves really wasn't it, a big struggle against a team near the bottom of the table. Norwich the better side and we were a little fortunate to get a point. The performance just shows today how we need more players in January let's hope it happens.
Andy Fincher By the way congrats Ivy on Cloudy Glen the Ladbroke.
Many thanks Andy, my betting account was on fumes so it helped quite a bit!! Also backed Cloth Cap, so thought I might have the 1-2 three fences out. Nice win in memory of Trevor Hemmings and will be interesting to see what happens to his horses now. Anyway, it turned out to be the most exciting part of the Wolves match for me.
Perhaps it’s one of them matches we simply have to put behind us and move rapidly on to Molineux on Wednesday night however our consistency is a touch concerning and as ever the number of goals we score is of concern. Thank goodness for a solid defence and a decent keeper, though a more capable attacking side would have killed us off yesterday. I was glad of a point in the end ….. too many players were ineffective.
December fixtures look like a bit of a mountain at the moment! 3 point versus Burnley will help.
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