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Match Thread: Aston Villa vs Wolves
Scoring The Winner
By Wolves
January 4 2023
So... It's Derby Day!! Wolves travel the short distance to Villa Park this evening for their third Premier League game in ten days and the third under the management of Julen Lopetegui.
Once again Wolves will take to the pitch knowing that three points can lift them away from the relegation zone and drop Everton into it following their devastating loss to Brighton last night. With Wolves' fellow relegation zone teams Southampton and Notts Forest also battling each other tonight it is important Wolves come away from Villa Park with a positive result. However this will not be an easy task considering the fact that Villa will be on a high after their 2 - 0 win at Spurs on Sunday. The team seems to be responding well to the new management team led by Unai Emery and settling down after the poor performances under Steven Gerrard, and they now occupy a mid-table spot.
The fact remains that Aston Villa haven't won any of their last six Premier League home games against Wolves (D3 L3), alternating between a draw and a defeat each time and who could forget the way Wolves came back from being 2 - 0 down to win 3 - 2 last season, with Wolves going on to complete the double over their local rivals in April. So the game is there for Wolves to win this evening and fans will have seen some encouraging performances in the team despite them losing to Man United by a solitary goal at the weekend.
It's difficult to establish how fit the squad is for this game! There is talk of a player beijng injured, but this hasn't been confirmed or the player identified. Otherwise it appears that the team which played against United is fit. Whilst it is widely anticipated that new striker Matheus Cunha will make an appearance tonight, if not start. Raul Jimenez also appears to have recovered from his injury and will no doubt stake a claim to start in place of the ineffective Diego Costa who still hasn't scored!
Aston Villa have some injury worries with Captain John McGinn likely to be unfit and several others struggling, including former Wolves man Leander Dendoncker.
Tonight's game is scheduled to kick off at 20:00hrs and doesn't feature on any TV channels. Our referee will be Jarred Gillett with Simon Hooper on VAR duty.
Subject to an available stream this board will endeavour to provide regular updates of the progress of the game. Board members are encouraged to post their own observations and join in the conversation.
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Discussion started by Wolves , 04/01/2023 17:51
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Cheers Chesh / Ivy.
No pressure, but if you keep soldiering on with these great intros and match threads I think Wolves will stay up.
No pressure, but if you keep soldiering on with these great intros and match threads I think Wolves will stay up.
Thanks for that Risca …. All Chesh’s fine words this evening.
Are we becoming Villa’s bogey team? I bloody hope so.
Team as follows:
Wolves XI: Sa, Semedo, Collins, Kilman, Bueno, Neves, Nunes, Hwang, Moutinho, Podence, Costa.
Subs: Sarkic, Ait-Nouri, Jimenez, Guedes, Jonny, Toti, Traore, Hodge, Cunha.
Are we becoming Villa’s bogey team? I bloody hope so.
Team as follows:
Wolves XI: Sa, Semedo, Collins, Kilman, Bueno, Neves, Nunes, Hwang, Moutinho, Podence, Costa.
Subs: Sarkic, Ait-Nouri, Jimenez, Guedes, Jonny, Toti, Traore, Hodge, Cunha.
Perhaps surprising to see an unchanged starting Xl this evening, and perhaps wonder just how many more chances Costa is going to get to score!! Perhaps JL thinks they are beginning to bond as a team - let's hope Hwang does more tonight than in the last game and our defence stop giving the ball away!! At least Cunha has made it to the bench. Line-up:
Hang and Costa upfront again? Think that unless we get off to a rip-roaring start new boy Cunha might be on early.
Costa was a great idea; just hasn’t worked. Maybe his days starting are done.
Costa was a great idea; just hasn’t worked. Maybe his days starting are done.
High hopes for tonight and we really need some points on the board.
Struggling to find a stream at present.
Struggling to find a stream at present.
Ruben loses the ball after unnecessary passing between the defence, Bailey’s shot is wide
Foul on HCH - free kick cleared but Costa earns a corner which Collins eventually gets a head on but cleared
Nelson earns a corner after good work by Pod. Hand ball by Cash just outside their area. Joao’s free kick headed away.
Great goal by Daniel Podence after working his way into the area
Villa 0 Wolves 1
Villa 0 Wolves 1
11 gone. We’re the better side so far
Stop the press, wonderful Podence goal, thoroughly deserved
Stop the press, wonderful Podence goal, thoroughly deserved
Excellent left footed foot work and shot into the side of the net by Pod. Good goal to get us going
Good strong play up right wing by Chan & corner off Mings, cleared. Wolves doing well out of possession & frustrating Villa.
Good interception by Pod - he tries to feed Costa but overhits it. Great play by Nunes but denied by Martinez. Putting Villa under real pressure
Ruben concedes a free kick against Bailey just outside the right side of our area. Free kick for Digne which Jose puts over the bar
Free kick to Villa just outside our box, comes to nothing. Wolves on top so far
Corner ends up with Ashley Young who skies it! Great defending by Bueno to Rob Bailey on the edge of our box.
Great ball in by Hugo put out for a corner by Mings. Villa break through Cash but regained by Wolves Nunes is showing well in midfield tonight and putting some good cross field passes in
Reckless tackle on Douglas Luiz by Hwang earns him a yellow card, despite Lee Hendry thinking it deserved more!!
Reckless challenge from Hwang. Yellow only, probably correct but could easily have been a red in another day
Nunes seems to be OK. Costa to Pod with a lovely ball but his cross put out for a corner, which Joao puts too far across the area. Two added minutes to play.
An excellent half of good Wolves football. Clearly the better side in all areas. Still another half to go mind, need that second goal!
Boos ring out as the whistle goes at the end of first half, a good game so far and Wolves have played very well. An excellently created & finished goal by Podence is the difference between the teams, but Wolves have been the better team without doubt. At the moment we are out of the bottom three and up to 16th place so we need more goals!!
Aston Villa 0 Wolves 1
Aston Villa 0 Wolves 1
Quote:Lupy
What streams are you guys on?
Sorry Lupy but I’m on a Fire stick not a stream
What Lupy asked. I'm following MbyM here and on the Beeb; my saved streams are impossible to get going.
Wolves good for their halftime lead. Bueno, Semedo, Podence all giving it gusto with Moutinho and especially Neves with his passes and Nunes taking them on, all working hard.
Our defence looks a bit wobbly , getting penned in with those scary pitty-pat short passes. Trying to pass out is the way now of course, but from a nervy back line it can be terrifying, inviting trouble
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Our defence looks a bit wobbly , getting penned in with those scary pitty-pat short passes. Trying to pass out is the way now of course, but from a nervy back line it can be terrifying, inviting trouble
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Coutinho on for Ashley Young and Adama on for Pod
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Adama fizzes his first cross in towards Costa but cut out by Martinez
Joe Hodge & RAN prepared to come on. Buendia clashing with Matheus. Hwang & Joao replaced
We now have Adama on right wing, RAN on left wing & Costa in the centre
It seems it must becBiubacarxTraore who is injured as he’s unavailable for tonight’s game. Digne puts an excellent ball in but just too high for Bailey
Good break ends with a shot by Acosta blocked. Matheus Cunha replaces Costa for his debut.
Big ask for Julen to tactically stem the tide before Villa get too dominant.
Ings on for Watkins and Donk on for Digne, and Augustinsson on for Luiz
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Cunha creates the space for Adama to get a left foot shot away but too high. Forest have won at Saints
Over the bar when Traore had a great opportunity
I have the feeling this will be a tense last 20 plus injury time
I have the feeling this will be a tense last 20 plus injury time
Wily play by Cunha as he tries to set up RAN but it’s blocked
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Brilliant headed clearance by Max from a pen Augustinsson volley. Before that Villa wanted a pen for hand ball against Hugo but overruled
Utterly superb Kilman defensive header, saves a certain equaliser. Brilliant
Once again Danny Ings scores against Wolves from a long ball over the defence. Jose slipped coming out to him and it was an easy finish
Villa 1 Wolves 1
Villa 1 Wolves 1
Bloody Ings equalises in part due to a Sa slip at the crucial moment
Bu.gger
Bu.gger
Corner well collected by Jose. Poor first touch by RAN otherwise he would have been in on goal. We’re currently back in 19th place!
Nunes goes for goal from outside the area but far too high. Cunha putting a shift in.RAN brings a good save out of Martinez for a corner
Into final minute and Bailey gets a chance from a great ball by Ings, goes round Jose and hits it wide. Blow the whistle ref!!
Great MbyM , thanks.
What a long old slog it's going to be to escape relegation.
What a long old slog it's going to be to escape relegation.
And the whistle goes so it is a positive result but not the three points we needed. Bailey on the ground seemingly crying over his last minute failure. A good game with aplenty of good action particularly from Wolves in the first half but Villa had the better of the second half. Danny Ings once again scoring against us after a ball over the top to him. The referee deserves a mention as he had a very good game.
One win, one draw and one loss for JL so far!
Aston Villa 1 Wolves 1
One win, one draw and one loss for JL so far!
Aston Villa 1 Wolves 1
Managed to get a stream for second half.. Guess the first half showing was better.
Much better play all round JL is making a big difference.
Much better play all round JL is making a big difference.
They woke up. We ran out of steam. We needed three points but we especially needed not to lose. Julen will have to earn his keep.
A decent enough result and performance. Excellent first half with a great goal. Maybe a bit unfortunate with Sa's slip when Ings was through but it seemed inevitable he would score against us.
Dare I say another decent match from Collins and Bueno has responded really well after his below par showing against Everton, impressive again today. Nunes another to have one of his better games. Difficult to judge Cunha but he was lively enough and made one or two good runs and looking forward to seeing him again.
All in all, a good point away from home and for me at least the positivity under Lopetegui continues.
By the way Lupy, I watched it on MMFOOTY.COM.
Dare I say another decent match from Collins and Bueno has responded really well after his below par showing against Everton, impressive again today. Nunes another to have one of his better games. Difficult to judge Cunha but he was lively enough and made one or two good runs and looking forward to seeing him again.
All in all, a good point away from home and for me at least the positivity under Lopetegui continues.
By the way Lupy, I watched it on MMFOOTY.COM.
Shame we didn't hang on for the 3 points but I thought we played well especially first half, with a bit of luck in front of goal we could of put the game to bed.
We needed that 2nd goal which just wouldn't come.
Villa had the better of the 2nd half but sa didn't really make many saves.
Just had a bad feeling when ings came on what would happen.
Thought nunes had his best game in a wolves shirt, and ran did well when he came on.
A points better than none.
We needed that 2nd goal which just wouldn't come.
Villa had the better of the 2nd half but sa didn't really make many saves.
Just had a bad feeling when ings came on what would happen.
Thought nunes had his best game in a wolves shirt, and ran did well when he came on.
A points better than none.
We really outplayed Villa in every department in a great first half and we should have (woulda coulda) got the second, in particular a scuff from Nunes. Second half we were second best but nothing like the margin that we dominated in the first 45. I couldn’t see Villa scoring then in the space of a couple of minutes Kilman made that amazing goal line clearance followed by us falling asleep and Ings punishing.
As for that Villa miss in the last minute of injury time ….. as laughable as it was massively scary. Luckily Cry Baby Bailey was on hand to tamely kick the ball wide instead of winning it for Villa. The reality is that would have been incredibly harsh on us. A draw was fair, I would have taken a point beforehand, however I think we edged it overall.
With results going as they did, frustrating we couldn’t hold on the emerge out of the bottom 3 and with cup fixtures with Liverpool on Saturday and Forest next Wednesday, our next league match v West Ham at Molineux is now verging on massive!
Good match tonight, encouraging signs from Wolves, still 19th! A performance to cling onto for us fans!
UTW!
As for that Villa miss in the last minute of injury time ….. as laughable as it was massively scary. Luckily Cry Baby Bailey was on hand to tamely kick the ball wide instead of winning it for Villa. The reality is that would have been incredibly harsh on us. A draw was fair, I would have taken a point beforehand, however I think we edged it overall.
With results going as they did, frustrating we couldn’t hold on the emerge out of the bottom 3 and with cup fixtures with Liverpool on Saturday and Forest next Wednesday, our next league match v West Ham at Molineux is now verging on massive!
Good match tonight, encouraging signs from Wolves, still 19th! A performance to cling onto for us fans!
UTW!
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