Aston Villa 1-1 Wolves: Verdict Thread

[The Bear]

Away you go. Got lucky at the end...

 

[Wolvensam]

Should have put it to bed in the first half and been two to the good.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Can’t be that negative and expect to win games. We’re not peak Nuno anymore.

Points fine but could have been more (and nearly less)

 

[Deano]

Will take the point. Performance was good on the whole, disappointing to concede relatively late but positive signs there for us. We actually look well set up now.

Sa is an issue as he's not the type of keeper you need when you're in a battle and struggling for goals. Margins are fine and you can't have someone doing clownshop stuff back there.

 

[Haggstone]

Excellent first half. Okish second half. Did our best to try and lose it at the end. Not sure about some of these substitutions.

 

[Paul]

What the hell were those substitutions all about that, was just bizarre??

 

[WsWolf]

Superb first half. Very strange choice of replacement for Podence started a very poor second half and Lopetegui was already waving the white flag with Toti when Ings scored and continued to put him on. Feels like a loss.

 

[Boozad]

Diabolical goal to give away but other than that I thought we were OK, much better than under that fucking clown Lage anyway. A point is a point, I'll take it.

 

[YoungWolf]

Point more than I expected but a shame to have led so long and with Forest winning…

First half very good though. Disappointed with the approach second half as there was goals in it for us. Nunes good again. As was Collins. Kilman poor last 30 mins aside from an incredible clearance.

 

[Jinky]

I said we had to score a second when we were well on top and that proved to be the case.

I’m sorry to say, but I think we might go down.

I don’t see Jeff or the recruitment team finding the players Julen wants - and the current squad is woefully lacking in squad depth and in form players.

Our defence is a liability, and we can’t score at the other end. That has all the makings of a side that will go down.

Appalling goal to concede and with Forest winning and other teams picking up points, it’s another opportunity down the drain.

I’m also concerned about Julen’s substitutions, because that’s two games in a row where we’ve looked much worse after he’s switched things up.

 

[Jack Regan]

Got away with it in the end, easily better in the first half but faded badly in the second half. Can see why we're after a new central midfielder as any change in there currently kills us completely.

 

[The Bion]

Hard not to look at it as 2 points dropped.

Need to get players fit and need to get players in as we dominated 1st half and nearly completely capitulated after the subs. Running out of time and can't keep doing that.

 

[Wolvensam]

The problem is taking any of those three central midfielders out kills us completely and ruins the game plan.

 

[Templeton Peck]

I'd have happily taken a point beforehand.

On the plus side we look better than under Lage, across the pitch.

On the negative side his subs are very worrying.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Frustrating as the win was in our grasp. Why does Traore blast every shot and has there ever been a more anonymous half of football from a Wolves player than Hodge tonight? Beat WH and it’s a good point!

 

[Paul]

The problem is bringing Adama on kills us completely and ruins the game plan.

edited for you

 

[HanDoJin]

Another month and I think Lopetegui will have really drilled some quality football into these. First half was just superb.

Really gutted not to get all 3 points but on tonight’s evidence there are 3 teams much worse that Wolves.

 

[SSB]

Games of two halves. Great first, not many complaints. Second half, one substitution and we looked like a team that had never played together at times.

 

[Wolvensam]

edited for you

I defended him a few games ago but he’s done now I think. That pass to Cunha and then applying the brakes rather than running inside just spoke volumes, really.

 

[The Bear]

We really need another experienced centre-back in. David Garcia links have gone very quiet.