Match Thread: Manchester City vs Wolves
By Wolves
October 6 2019
Wolves travel to Manchester City's Etihad stadium today for the fearsome challenge of trying to beat City at their own ground
After their two wins in the past week Wolves could not be better prepared to enter the Etihad stadium with the hope of leaving with points, in the hope of continuing their rise up the Premier League. Man City however will also be extremely keen to take three points from the match in order to stay in touch with Liverpool after their last gasp win yesterday. Diogo Jota will be missing from the line-up today as he still struggles with a toe injury, but Nuno is not reporting any other injuries.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2019:10:30:11:42:07 by Cheshire wolf.
Patricio, Boly Coady Saiss, Traore, Dendoncker, Neves, Moutinho, Vinagre Jimenz, Cutrone
Whilst on the subs bench we notably have no strikers!!
Ruddy, Vallejo, Bennett, Jonny, Kilman, Gibbs-White, Doherty
Here we go


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Food attacking spell for wolves but Two chances not taken
2 sausages upfront?
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Food attacking spell for wolves but Two chances not taken
2 sausages upfront?
Sausages would be good, at the moment more like doughnuts!



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Food attacking spell for wolves but Two chances not taken
2 sausages upfront?
Good
We may very well rue those missed chances. Patricio’s saves were fairly routine but another goalie might have let one in.
Just can’t believe Cutrone didn’t even get his chance on target, the easiest of the 3 by a mile

Scramble in the box for City and we survive!
Doc coming on shortly apparently


Traore
Superb!!! Jiminez to Traore 1-0

Traore
2-0
MAISEY TAWPhones going, me jumping, all over - Traore x 2 - shows us all how to finish
Outstanding

Man City 0 Wolves 2
I must admit I was unsure about the starting line up but Nuno knows more than any of us.
UP THE WOLVES!!!
The coolness of both the finishes was just excellent. I'm pretty sure that we all like Traore, can see his skill, though have all questioned him in somes ways. I've said he's earnt his place into our side this season, however was worried he was RWB today. To be frank, he was very competent in that position today, keeping Sterling and the like at bay, however when he went up front, a very good sub of Doc for Cutrone, Traone showed what he can do and finished the Citizens off ... something that should have happened in the first half!! Congratulations to him, a wonderful individual effort and to all of the team, the whole defense were outstanding, Boly and also Bennett in particular.
Brilliant Wolves, just brilliant!



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Incidentally after a tough away game in Europe and looking fresh as daisies , the next person to mention tiredness after "European exertions " needs executing![]()
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Agree, and the next person to say "look what happened to Burnley" needs executing. We're no Burnley.
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Incredible result , Traore the STRIKER AGAIN STRIKING THE BALL HOMEMAISEY TAW
To be fair AAW, he was playing in a 3-5-2 so he actually was a striker today (as I said in that thread). What a weird decision by Nuno to change him from a defender to attacker though, hey.....
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The only weird decision Maisey is to not play Traore as an offensive player - hopefully he starts further forward. Can he be any worse a finisher than Crutone etc.. Jimenez and Crutone are both decent but neither can finish their dinner at times let alone a chance.
I agree completely, he is very effective as an offensive player, couldn't understand why he didn't start in the front 3 in Istanbul but I've given up questioning Nuno over time as generally he gets it spot on. Cutrone is extremely hard working but so far his finishing and ability generally leaves a lot to be desired, and hopefully Raul just needs a rest - it can't have been easy playing with a broken wrist for 7 months to be fair.
Traore, well ..... absolutely delighted for him. Two very similar finishes which strongly resemble his winner v West Ham last season!
As for execution of those exclaiming tiredness following european fixtures ....... harsh but fair


On to Burnley, it is still surely a great accomplishment and shock that after a mentally gruelling Europa league prelim exit campaign last season, they managed to rise from the ashes to beat Everton yesterday.

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I forget about Jimenez's broken wrist.. I wonder what has taken it so long to heal as he doesnt look the same player since it happened.
He hasn't had time to have surgery on it since he broke it AAW, he's been playing through it because he didn't want to let us or Mexico down. God knows if he'll have it fixed over the international break now he's been given a breather by Mexico.

