By Wolves
January 22 2022
Wolves travel to London today to face Brentford and avoid conceding their first 'double' of the season, and the first against a promoted team for twelve years
A ridiculous penalty given away by Marcal helped Wolves lose their home game against Brentford in September, in which was surely their worst home performance so far this season and equal overall to their away performance at Crystal Palace. However things have picked up since then and Wolves go into the game encouraged by recent winning performances against Manchester United and Southampton, whereas Brentford have struggled to maintain their early season results, conceding at least three goals in their last three games and sliding into the bottom half of the table.
Wolves will be bouyed by the news that midfielder Ruben Neves and defender Ki-Jana Hoever have both completed their Covid-19 isolation and are available for selection. Fans will also surely expect Toti Gomes to continue standing in for Romain Saiss in the left side of defence after his accomplished debut last Saturday. Rumours still flourish around the future of Adama Traore - the subject of an outrageous £15m bid by Spurs this week - so it will be interesting to see whether he is included in the squad, let alone the starting Xl. We can only hope that if he is to leave, his value will have been improved after finding his scoring boots for the first time last week!!
Today's game kicks off at 3pm and will be refereed by Peter Banks, with the now retired from field duty Lee Mason on VAR.
This board will hope for a decent stream to be able to offer regular updates on the progress of the game, and board members are encouraged to join in the discussion and post their own observations.

Quote:Ivybridge Wolf
Sites been down for an hour I see.
Will be tough today for sure, Brentford played well v Manchester United, however De Gea did enough in the first half and the Man Utd were clinical in the second half. We need to be on guard and seek to over turn the rather poor effort at Molineux earlier in the season.
Good luck to the boys today, 3 in midfield, Donk, Moutinho and Neves returning with Podence and Silva up front. Toti retained and no Raul.
If I may, a moment of personal indulgence. Today - to the day, and precise time, is the 50th anniversary since my dear Dad took me to see Wolves play for the very first time. I was very young though I still have many memories and they are very fond memories of a very, very special day. The final score, 0-0 v Liverpool was disappointing to a certain extent though for me, it was the start, the very beginning and absolutely fantastic.
Some great named played on both sides!
Our team that day: Parkes, Shaw, Parkin, Sunderland, Munro, McAlle, McCalliog, Hibbit, Curran, The Doog, Waggy Sub Eastoe
Liverpool: Clemence, Ross, Lindsay, Lawler, Smith, Hughes, Thompson, Hall, Callaghan, Evans, Keegan
UTW!!
Quote:Ivybridge Wolf
60 years Chesh, do you get a letter from Jeff Shi for that? 😁


