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Just doesn't shut up
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If ever a game called out for Nuno's philosophy of 'controlling the game without the ball' it was this one. Don't know how the players could have forgotten so much so quickly.
Leeds forced us to play at a tempo we are uncomfortable at. Maybe that is why Bruno was praising the players for the first half. Because that was something different for us and it worked well. Normally, when we speed up, it becomes a catalogue of misplaced passes. But until the sending off, we'd been getting the ball into players in space behind Leeds press, with speed and precision. We don't manage that hardly at all.
Overall, we aren't the first team to lose a 2 goal lead and we won't be the last. It just happens to everyone, every few seasons. If anything, we are one of the best at winning those games. After our Villa 3-2, they said something like there had been 6 such 2-goal turnarounds in recent seasons and Wolves had done 3 of them. Some teams hadn't managed it in 10 years.