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Fulham MATCH REPORT Wolves by Always Wolves 2 minutes ago
Fulham 3-0 Wolves Match Report: Red Card, Own Goal And Fans Fury
Wolves lose 3-0 at Fulham after a red card and selection gamble. John Taras talks VAR, own goal, and rising anger toward Vitor and Jeff Shi as relegation fears grow.
I have the challenge of producing the Match Report for today’s game.
Fulham 3 v Wolves 0. The team news has already caused a stir amongst Wolves fans.
Team news: 1-50pm… Johnstone, Hoever, Santi Bueno, Agbadou, Toti, Hugo Bueno, Bellegarde, Krejci, Munetsi, Strand Larsen.
From Wednesdays defeat to Chelsea, out go Sa, Doherty, Moller-Wolfe, Mosquera, Tchatchoua, Lopez, Joao Gomes, Hwang and Tolu.
Vitor makes nine changes! No place for the Brazilian pair of Gomes and Andre! It’s either going to be a masterstroke or a suicidal move straight to the dole queue!
First Half:
Wolves set up with a 5-3-2 formation but it looks more like 5-4-1. Strand-Larsen playing a lone striker role.
It only took Wolves nine minutes to press the self destruct button. Raul played a short ball in the centre that Santi Bueno tried to intercept. He succeeded in taking out Agbadou who had stepped up to intercept the ball. Sessegnon scampered away with the ball and beat Johnstone from just inside the area. To be honest Johnstone should have done better, he got a hand to the ball but it went into the goal. It came really from a Wolves error. Where have we written that before.
The game turned on it’s head on 36 minutes when referee Brooks sent off Agbadou with a straight red as he clattered into King on the edge of the box. They both ended up on the floor but Agbadou was late in the tackle. However in the build up to the incident King took the ball down with an outstretched arm! I thought on the replay it was a clear indication of making your body bigger by outstretching the arm so to me it was a blatant handball.
VAR looked at it briefly but disagreed and the red card stood!
Wolves playing the way they were with 11 men it was a tall order but down to 10 it was an impossibility. But they kept Fulham out for the rest of the half with some agile keeping by Johnstone making up for his effort with the first goal. Then on 48 minutes in injury time Wolves had a clear chance to go in at 1-1. A square ball from the byline evaded the lunge from Strand-Larsen two yards out. I think he could have gambled on that’s where the ball was going but it passed him by.
Half time and surprisingly 10 man Wolves were only 1-0 down.
Second Half:
Vitor makes three changes straight away. Mosquera comes on for Toti who was on a yellow card. Tchatchoua replaced the disappointing Hoever. Arias who had been absent all first half was replaced by Joao Gomes.
Fulham bossed the game with the extra man. Wolves were struggling to get out and construct any useful attacks. On 62 minutes after an episode of pin ball defending the ball fell perfectly for the left footed Harry Wilson to smack into the corner giving Johnstone no chance. Wilson a player who Vitor apparently turned down in the transfer window!
On 75 minutes Wolves conceded a third goal when Mosquera put the ball into his own net from two yards out after a slick Fulham move.
In response to this Vitor brought on his second first choice midfield Brazilian, Andre and took off the disappointing Strand-Larsen.
The remainder of the game was uneventful with Wolves actually starting to find their own players with their passes on 82 minutes. But another defeat leaves Wolves staring the yawning inevitabilty of relegation to the Championship.
Summarising the events of the day:
At the begining of my report I commented on the team selection. Nine changes from Wednesdays defeat to Chelsea. The team on Wednesday full of changes from last Sundays game against Burnley!
Given the plight Wolves find themselves in, bottom of the Premiership. Only two points this season and no wins since April against Leicester City. Wolves are 8 points now behind Burnley who are fourth from bottom. Wolves next match is Chelsea away before the dreaded two week international break. On Wednesday the goals came from Moller-Wolfe and Tolu. Both two of the players dropped today!
Vitor fielded a changed midfield dropping both Andre and Joao Gomes, two Brazilian internationals. He played Arias, but I’m not sure where he was playing today? The passes past him by in the first half without any intervention by him. Munetsi is an honest player who has grabbed a couple of goals this season but he seems to be undroppable?
A lot of Vitor’s choices have been questionable. But if, as has been reported he got the players he asked for plus the coaching team he asked for he must shoulder some of the blame for Wolves current position.
BUT l can’t finish my report without a blast at Jeff Shi and the owners. Yes Fosun have put some money into the Club, BUT for the last few seasons the star players in the team have been sold! The players that have come in have got no Premiership experience or in some cases even been to the UK. Players have not been purchased in time for Vitor to bed them into the team.
The fans were told in no uncertain terms by Jeff Shi, that Wolves are not the team for you, if you want Europe or Cups. Well I’m sorry but that indicates an Owner with no aspirations for the Club, no vision for the future, who’s sole concern is to balance the books at all costs even at the detriment of the team and supporters. Sacking Vitor will not change Wolves fortunes under the current regime.
Next up Chelsea away, team selection, perm 11 from 18? First win not a chance, relegation almost certainly!
I can’t think what else to say, it’s dismal, sad, painful, predictable given how the Club is being run!
Fulham 3-0 Wolves Match Report: Red Card, Own Goal And Fans Fury