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Wolves 0-0 Burnley: Verdict Thread

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Just couldn’t create a clear cut enough chance. Some really poor decisions/quality in and around penalty area. I think I trust Bruno enough that he’s getting us into good attacking positions in terms of build up play but our quality in final third just isn’t there
 
Need to do something about the lack of goals and creativity in this team and squad ASAP.

With the run of fixtures we’ve got coming up, we simply had to beat one of Norwich or Burnley. To score zero goals against those two sides is no where near good enough.

Now we wait for the inevitable slide down the table throughout December and for posters to start questioning the manager…

Kilman MOTM.

Adama was more frustrating than usual. Shoots when he should pass. Crosses when he should dribble further/shoot. Raul was terrible (if we didn’t have a joke option on the bench, it would have been nice to make a change). Hwang appears to be scared to shoot and he’s supposed to be one of our biggest goal threats.

I really feel for Bruno. He’s on a hiding to nothing because he’s got zero options within the squad and I feel like certain players are letting him down a bit at the moment.
 
Better than Norwich clean sheet but lack of inventiveness and quality in the final third and too many sideways slow backwards passes. Our set pieces are truly awful and our wing backs would have trouble crossing a road . Disappointing result from an ok performance.
 
Honestly thought we were quite good at 90% of what we did. The 10% being shooting and crossing.

I can't help but marvel at what Bruno has done to our defense. Okay, we're not scoring nearly as much as we should be, but we look so fucking rock solid at the back. Even the chance when McNeil got through on goal, my blood pressure didn't climb at all. I feel ridiculously assured by our defending in a way I don't think I ever have before, even under Nuno.
 
Better than last seasons result, but bloody frustrating, you have got to ask when will we win again, boxing day ????
 
Just couldn’t create a clear cut enough chance. Some really poor decisions/quality in and around penalty area. I think I trust Bruno enough that he’s getting us into good attacking positions in terms of build up play but our quality in final third just isn’t there
Jimenez the biggest issue for me tonight, never really in threatening positions despite Wolves' dominance. Really disappointing from him given the circumstances, think Traore and Hwang played pretty much as well as any of the inside forwards have this season, so would've been nice for the man main in the middle to have matched them.

It's a shame when it always ends up going out to the wingbacks as a result because they become a bit stranded and have to resort to poor options which attracts criticism they don't always deserve.

90% of that game was really good, just need to sharpen up that final bit of movement and interplay where it really counts, turn some of the dominance into more threat.
 
Need to do something about the lack of goals and creativity in this team and squad ASAP.

With the run of fixtures we’ve got coming up, we simply had to beat one of Norwich or Burnley. To score zero goals against those two sides is no where near good enough.

Now we wait for the inevitable slide down the table throughout December and for posters to start questioning the manager…

Kilman MOTM.

Adama was more frustrating than usual. Shoots when he should pass. Crosses when he should dribble further/shoot. Raul was terrible (if we didn’t have a joke option on the bench, it would have been nice to make a change). Hwang appears to be scared to shoot and he’s supposed to be one of our biggest goal threats.

I really feel for Bruno. He’s on a hiding to nothing because he’s got zero options within the squad and I feel like certain players are letting him down a bit at the moment.
Traore played as well as he has all season.
 
Raul's movement was awful tonight. So many times I watched him just kind of stand there, not moving into space but not occupying either CB. It was weird.

If Bruno doesn't trust Fabio when Raul looks like that, we need a new striker ASAP.
 
Just done the pictures for the OP and the stats says a lot. 65% possession, 16 shots, only 2 on target.

We can dominate weaker teams but can't create enough to put them away on a regular basis.
 
We'll probably have more chances in the next run of games than we did in these last two.

I'm not too concerned about the up coming run of games. I don't think we're in danger of going down and we aren't going to be near European spots either.
 
Traore played as well as he has all season.
That's what makes it the most frustrating he's been all season!

Love him to bits but he just can't seem to ever put it together on the pitch.
 
And RAN needs to have a look at his crossing. You’d think after you’ve hit the first man 5-6 times your brain would say “right, next one is going to be better”, but nope. Neither of our full backs are helping us in attacking areas and that’s a massive part of that role.

You can bet your bottom dollar we’ll look twice the team against Liverpool, so make of that what you will!
 
I didn't see it but only one sub? Was Silva not an option and going two up front at any point?
 
Traore played as well as he has all season.

For a long time, I think he's gone slightly too far the other way with the passing. Times he received it in dangerous half spaces and didn't turn and run. Positive signs though.
 
I do think they pinpointed Raul as the main threat and handled him well, some of the tackles on him were exemplary
 
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