Match Thread: Wolves vs Manchester City

A Tough One
By Wolves
September 30 2023

Another difficult challenge at Molineux faces Wolves this afternoon as the Premiership Champions Manchester City come calling, and a difficult challenge to write any positive prelude to the game on here.

Wolves have certainly had a very challenging start to the new season, playing Brighton, Liverpool and now City at home and already having played four games away from home, and this has proved difficult for the squad, hence only having four points on the board so far. Quite a lot of 'anti O'Neil' sentiment has sprung up on social media since the last two results at Luton and Ipswich, but the club appear to continue backing him in his position. The Ipswich game game him an opportunity to field squad members who haven't played many times this season and some of the new recruits who will be wanting to stake a claim for starting places.

No new injury problems have been declared for today's game, but of course John-Ricner Belleguard will sit out his second of three matches due to suspension after his dismissal at Luton, and Tommy Doyle is ineligible as he is on loan from City. Boubakar Traore was one of the few players to receive a positive review after the midweek game and may have done enough to step into a midfield vacancy. The conundrum however still relates to who should be employed as strikers in the team. Pedro Neto appears to be finding the form we have all been hoping would return after his dreadful run of injuries, and Hee Chan Hwang has at least found the net a few times already, so they are likely to start. Whilst being a good runner with the ball from midfield Matheus Cunha otherwise flatters to deceive in front of goal, and Fabio Silva and Sasa Kalajdzic are still definitely trying to find their feet in the Premier League.

The truth is that whatever starting Xl is fielded by Wolves they will have a very difficult afternoon ahead of them with the power and skill City continue to display ahead of them, and a team wanting to continue their run of winning all their opening league games so far. Last season Wolves fell to a 3 - 0 home defeat after having centre back Nathan Collins dismissed at 0 - 1 for a reckless foul on Grealish, so we hope we can keep eleven players on the pitch this afternoon!!

Wolves fans will also be hoping not to suffer any further highly debatable refereeing decisions after the match at Luton. The experienced Craig Pawson - who also refereed our game at Everton - will be in charge this afternoon with Robert Jones on VAR Duty

The game will kick off at Molineux at 3pm and will not be screened before the highlights are shown on MotD.

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Match Thread: Wolves vs Manchester City

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Date: 30/09/2023 11:36

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