Venting Vitor

By Ivybridge Wolf
October 29 2025

Wolves go into tonight’s 4th round League Cup fixture unbeaten! Yes, Wolves are riding high having already dispatched two premier league opponents in this competition and now hungry for their third victim. Riding high in a parallel universe that is?!  

The scenes after the miserable home defeat to Burnley last Sunday weren’t great. It could be argued that Wanderers were unlucky to lose the match on the day, to be honest I am sympathetic to that opinion, but the stark reality is that it was another major defeat in a line of too many to mention. Wolves have now lost to all three promoted premier league sides on top of all the other disappointments this season and the end of last. Anyway, emotions and tempers were frayed at full time, and all corners of the club should be in no doubt that we are a club in crisis. As a strategy, Fosun selling and praying new recruits every transfer window will lead to good fortunes on the pitch is not a formula to settle and thrive. At least not at Wolves.

So, it’s the League Cup tonight for some light relief, if that is possible. The match kicks off at Molineux at 7.45pm versus Chelsea who have a few form inconsistencies of late, losing at Stamford Bridge to Sunderland on Saturday. though scoring goals isn’t one of their weaknesses.

Both team selections will come under scrutiny this evening, the League Cup noted for experimental sides, though to be fair Vitor, he hasn’t deviated too far from league line ups. I hope that Hugo Bueno, Rodrigo and Bellegarde are rewarded for their efforts and get into the starting 11 this evening. Irrespective of who is picked, Chelsea are strong favourites for this tie at odds of 5/6 and Wolves 100/30.

The cup might be a distraction, however it is a means of trying to muster something positive which could be used and taken forward into the Fulham match on Saturday, another absolutely crucial game awaiting Wolves.

Let’s see what happens, I’ll be watching (the match is being televised on Sky Sports Plus) and hoping against hope that we see something which does not add to the justifiable despair many fans feel at the moment. As another measure of discontent, all eyes on the gate tonight, Molineux dipped under 30,000 for the last two premier league games and 18,758 and 19,561 attended respectively for the league cup matches versus West Ham and Everton.

Everything crossed fellow Molineux Way followers, you are invited to comment in the thread below.

UTW!!

Match Thread: Wolves v Chelsea 7.45pm 29.10.25 LC 4th round

Discussion started by Wolves , 29/10/2025 17:56

Wolves
29/10/2025 17:56

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025:11:13:06:31:02 by Ivybridge Wolf.

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 18:47

This competition should be scrapped, if many of the bigger clubs could withdraw from it they would. It has the prestige of an egg and spoon race at a local park.

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 19:28

Not if you win it,ask the Geordies!

Having said what I did in the intro, Vitor has made 11 changes!! Chelsea 10.

Wolves XI: Sa, Tchatchoua, Doherty, Mosquera, Agbadou, Toti, Wolfe, Gomes, Lopez, Hwang, Arokodare.

Subs: Bentley, Bueno, Munetsi, R.Gomes, Chirewa, Bellegarde, Mane, Krejci, Strand Larsen.

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Lupy
29/10/2025 19:30

I really don't know what to think.

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 19:32

Palace are even money favourites to beat Liverpool tonight Ivy at Anfield with Liverpool's team selection. I rest my case

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 19:45

Not sure what can be learnt from so many changes.

As for the league cup itself, whilst it is almost certain we won’t get beyond this or at a stretch the next round, it is still only one of two domestic trophies we can win. The joy of the Toon winning was immense. I’d love a bit of that, irrespective of what sides any given manager or betting company thinks!!

And I still remember 74 and 80!

Match underway, 5 gone and it’s 0-1

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 19:45

Same time next year then

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 19:49

Dreadful defending again and ball given away cheaply in a very dangerous area by Arokabare

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 19:54

We want Fosun out ringing out of the stands again.

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 19:55

Absolutely pathetic defending again.

0-2

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Lupy
29/10/2025 19:57

Does this herald the end of VP?

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 19:59

Could and should have been three. Doc replaced by Rodrigo due to injury

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 20:00

no, we still have the FA cup to look forward to. If we get a league 2 club at home, the 4th round's possible. Why would VP be sacked to deprive us of some glory in the FA cup? No one cares about the league cup ..or very few anyway.

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 20:09

Arsenal have a 15 year old playing for them tonight. Bin this daft competition, it's nothing more than a reserves cup and under 18 trophy.

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 20:14

I think you secretly love this competition Angry, fine line between love and hate and you protest too much methinks!

Hwang had a good chance just now after a decent free kick but body shape all wrong and blazed over

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 20:21

We’ve had a few decent foray’s forward but all of them fizzle out without a shot.

Even more pathetic defending and it’s 0-3.

Lopes makes a tragic error in possession after a tight pass from Sa, so easy for Chelsea

Embarrassing

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 20:22

Quote:

Ivybridge Wolf
I think you secretly love this competition Angry, fine line between love and hate and you protest too much methinks!
Hwang had a good chance just now after a decent free kick but body shape all wrong and blazed over

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 20:29

Arokadare should have scored. Poor header from any centre forward.

Wolves fans cheering a sequence of Wolves passes., ironically of course.

3 minutes of added time is over, Some boos at the whistle, but all seems half hearted after that energy sapping, soporific Wolves effort.

So poor

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 20:34

Picture the scene on a cold January afternoon when we are playing Accrington Stanley at home in the FA cup. It's 0-0 at HT with Acc stanley down to ten men and Fosun looking on. VP strides into the dressing room and starts to speak


"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! " 4-4 fcking 2

45 more minutes pass and the FT whistle goes - we are in the 4th round winning 1-0. Keep the faith

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 20:44

My word, Arokadare almost scored in first seconds of second half

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essington wolf
29/10/2025 20:46

This could get embarrassing, oh wait a minute it already is!
It's like slow torture watching this shambles.
Fosun hang your head in shame what you have done to this club.
I've been supporting this club for over 50 years and this is up there with the worst football I've seen down the molineux.
Vitor got to go now his team selection again is just baffling.

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 20:48

Wait a minute, Arokadare scores with a decent finish after a lay off from Hwang.

Krejci on for Rodrigo and Munetsi for Lopes at HT

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An angry wolf
29/10/2025 20:50

Palace 2 up away to Liverpool, who could have predicted that

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:06

Dare I say it, we have more spirit and attacking intent this half. Okay the nails were driven into the coffin first half but it’s something, however small.

Larsen on for Hwang

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:11

Wolfe scores a cracker after a nod in from a long throw. Game on? !!

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:15

Neto on, 77 gone

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:24

Chelsea down to 10 men, Delap gets sent off for a second yellow. A mad moment from Delap but only 4 minutes left plus added time

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:29

A wonderful goal from Gittens for Chelsea, smashed it in from 20 yards off the post.
The resistance is over.
Forget that Wolves 3-4!! Another goal from Wolfe
Cmon!!

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:29

4 of 6 added minutes to go

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Ivybridge Wolf
29/10/2025 21:37

An utterly frantic ending and second half where Wolves played well but the damage was well and truly done in the first half.

Another good match for the neutral but the same story, Wolves lose.

Molineux chanting in appreciation and the players are responding accordingly. They at least gave it a go and got stuck in.

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essington wolf
29/10/2025 21:52

2nd half showing probably saved vitors job for now.
Spirited 2nd half performance but to little to late, absolutely woeful 1st half.
Yet another defeat, they just keep on coming☹️

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Andy Pandy
30/10/2025 07:53

To be fair I thought Wolfe had a reasonable match, even without his two goals. I'm always sorry to see us knocked out of a cup, whichever one it is. Three of the goals came directly from our mistakes. Too heavy a pass from Tolu gave them possession for the first. Lopez losing possession for the second, despite Sa telling him which way to play it he went the other and got caught, and as good a finish as it was, their fourth came from us losing possession from our own throw in. There may be the slightest glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel if we can carry on the fight and spirit we showed in the second half into the league, but I'm probably clutching at straws.



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