Sheffield Utd verdict

[Stourport wolf]

No idea how we won that, dreadful from start to finish.

Has to go down as one of our worst PL performances in the FOSUN era considering how historically bad SheffU are. Up there with the Huddersfield games, for me.

Difference is we won and if Sarabia hadn't been a gentleman , we would have won 2-0.

 

[maws]

We were **** but we won, that’s a big thing. We would probably lose that under Nuno if we are honest

 

[Northampton_wolf]

Gary took responsibility for second half watched his talk lemina and Pablo also said about they weren't good enough. But we win that's all tht matter

Big game now Brighton we look tired need an injection

 

[Andywolf74]

Poor second half but we got 3 points in a game a season or so ago we’d have found a way to drop points.
Great interview from GON who was honest that he and the team should have been better second half.
38 points is absolutely fantastic at this stage, after such an unsettled pre season.
Best possible starting line up on Wednesday please.

 

[Ewok vs Wolf]

2nd half was an energy saving masterclass
No need to bomb forward, save the energy for next weeks games.

 

[SuperGran]

We’ll take the three points the 8th place and the guaranteed premier league status and move on

 

[Perton Wolf]

Difference is we won and if Sarabia hadn't been a gentleman , we would have won 2-0.

Right thing to do, to be fair. For as good as we were last week, we were as bad today.

 

[The Wolf In The North]

I thought criticism for the first half was unfair - we were loose and wasteful, but we were playing on the front foot at a great tempo, and were clever and fluid in midfield, with Lemina and Ait-Nouri particularly impressive. Almost every pass was forward, and there were a couple of lengthy periods where our foot was firmly on their throat. A world away from much of the dross of the last couple of years.

Second half, criticism is fully justified. We came from half time like we were heavily sedated, never really got any better, and then some 10-15 minutes from time the entire back line decided to mentally combust and not want to play a single ball towards the opposition goal. Inexplicable. One can only assume the drastic slowing of tempo was deliberate, but it was stupid, and a better team than Sheffield would have happily eviscerated us. Not the first time we've done it, it makes no sense, but we got away with it.

Eighth, and happy, but still plenty to work on.

 

[Jefe]

To be filed under the never to be thought of again draw. No one comes out of that with any credit

I thought Dawson defended strongly, and headed everything away. Otherwise, outside of the points and the clean sheet, there were very few positives.
Really torpid stuff, which will require a massive improvement against Brighton.

 

[Summer_Wolf]

Horrid performance but a hugely important win. Puts us right in the European conversation - for now at least!

 

[Glow69]

That'll do! Next...

 

[Northampton_wolf]

Dawson defended very well under any high ball just no pace and turned easy by Brewster but against corners and throws fantastic


We played ok first half on front foot

Hwang was really off I think him rolling his ankle in warm up affected him

We had and Gary alluded to alot of poor decision making

But we win that's all that matters

Like city last night who were poor

 

[VancouverWolf]

That’s when there’s nothing left to play for.
This performance does not represent, sum up, or define, our season

Not sure I’d agree with all that.
A reasonable description of Wolves this season is the regular occurrence to have huge holes in our defence and to have an inability to move the ball out .
For whatever reason, many times this season we ‘switch off’, whether for short or long periods.

 

[Topcat]

I’m sure there’s been less memorable games in the past which we’ve won and quite frankly I couldn’t care less. Another 3 precious points!

 

[wolfgar]

They was on the beach

They made me wish I was

 

[VancouverWolf]

2nd half was an energy saving masterclass
No need to bomb forward, save the energy for next weeks games.

You mightn’t have posted this if Sheffield had scored……they came very, very close.

 

[Bostin]

Half the fans are expected us to roll them over, especially after we went a goal up.

The panic and groans every time it goes backwards translates to the pitch.

Yeah, we weren’t great second half but they were never going to score.

Who gives a ****, we won and we’re 8th!

 

[Dorbelflunk]

Re: Our lackluster second half - players must have got too excited about the bloke getting the ball through the hole at half time

 

[Tarcisio Mifsud]

I do not want to repeat, but I hope that such performance would not happen again in my remaining life time.

 

[Milijas]

Bloody hell difficult watch.

Think we missed Cunha today but had he been fit would Sarabia have been benched? Difficult because thought Sarabia was man of the match even without his goal..

Hwang was very poor, kilman also.

Thought Semedo did ok and Lemina.

 

[Sir Ron]

I thought Dawson defended strongly, and headed everything away. Otherwise, outside of the points and the clean sheet, there were very few positives.
Really torpid stuff, which will require a massive improvement against Brighton.

The best thing I can take from today (yes obviously apart from the 3 points) is I’ve learned a new word, torpid, I never knew it existed and now I’ve looked it up I can add it to my hard drive, thank you

 

[Sir Ron]

I do not want to repeat, but I hope that such performance would not happen again in my remaining life time.

Strangely put but I’ve got to agree

 

[S G Wolves]

Good first half...

Sloppy second half.

3 points and move on.

 

[Sir Ron]

Easy

Grow up your talking like we lost 6-0

Easy Supergran there’s no need to be so aggressive

 

[Black Country Wanderer]

GON very honest as usual in his interview
Blamed himself more than the players,so must presume he asked them to conserve energy?
Thought he could have changed it up more earlier if that was the plan and taken Neto off
As he said too many unforced errors and poor decisions,but its always the same when we slow the tempo
Europe? No chance on that showing and tbf little chance anyway
Lets hope we play better in mid week,and we take the 3 points today with pleasure

 

[lobodelsur]

1st half was ok; Lemina was pushed into an advanced role and was making runs beyond their defence, leaving us a bit open to the counter but we dealt with it ok. 2nd half -wtf ? Could nobody put their foot on the ball, calm the play down, structure our play a bit ? Even Lemina, the master of cool (as we saw in the 1st half) resorted to just lumping the ball out. I think we lost some composure (not that we had much) when RAN went off. Still some work to do to find a way of dealing with struggling clubs.

 

[Perton Wolf]

I thought criticism for the first half was unfair - we were loose and wasteful, but we were playing on the front foot at a great tempo, and were clever and fluid in midfield, with Lemina and Ait-Nouri particularly impressive. Almost every pass was forward, and there were a couple of lengthy periods where our foot was firmly on their throat. A world away from much of the dross of the last couple of years.

Second half, criticism is fully justified. We came from half time like we were heavily sedated, never really got any better, and then some 10-15 minutes from time the entire back line decided to mentally combust and not want to play a single ball towards the opposition goal. Inexplicable. One can only assume the drastic slowing of tempo was deliberate, but it was stupid, and a better team than Sheffield would have happily eviscerated us. Not the first time we've done it, it makes no sense, but we got away with it.

Eighth, and happy, but still plenty to work on.

We weren't terrible with the ball first half, had some nice moves, but they missed two one on ones. Criticism was warranted.

Second half we weren't good at anything, quite frankly.

 

[Perton Wolf]

I thought criticism for the first half was unfair - we were loose and wasteful, but we were playing on the front foot at a great tempo, and were clever and fluid in midfield, with Lemina and Ait-Nouri particularly impressive. Almost every pass was forward, and there were a couple of lengthy periods where our foot was firmly on their throat. A world away from much of the dross of the last couple of years.

Second half, criticism is fully justified. We came from half time like we were heavily sedated, never really got any better, and then some 10-15 minutes from time the entire back line decided to mentally combust and not want to play a single ball towards the opposition goal. Inexplicable. One can only assume the drastic slowing of tempo was deliberate, but it was stupid, and a better team than Sheffield would have happily eviscerated us. Not the first time we've done it, it makes no sense, but we got away with it.

Eighth, and happy, but still plenty to work on.

We weren't terrible with the ball first half, had some nice moves, but they missed two one on ones. Criticism was warranted.

Second half we weren't good at anything, quite frankly.

 

[Netherton Wolf]

It was more fun watching the guy win nearly 8k at HT

 

[SA Wolf]

I thought criticism for the first half was unfair - we were loose and wasteful, but we were playing on the front foot at a great tempo, and were clever and fluid in midfield, with Lemina and Ait-Nouri particularly impressive. Almost every pass was forward, and there were a couple of lengthy periods where our foot was firmly on their throat. A world away from much of the dross of the last couple of years.

Second half, criticism is fully justified. We came from half time like we were heavily sedated, never really got any better, and then some 10-15 minutes from time the entire back line decided to mentally combust and not want to play a single ball towards the opposition goal. Inexplicable. One can only assume the drastic slowing of tempo was deliberate, but it was stupid, and a better team than Sheffield would have happily eviscerated us. Not the first time we've done it, it makes no sense, but we got away with it.

Eighth, and happy, but still plenty to work on.

Good summary and excellent incorporation of eviscerated into your post.

 

[SuperGran]

It was more fun watching the guy win nearly 8k at HT

His first shot was sooo close too amazing I never thought anyone would win it

 

[Jefe]

Grow up your talking like we lost 6-0

You're telling someone to "grow up" for the temerity of saying he doesn't want to see a performance like that again, in a language that is not his native tongue.
Perhaps you should heed your own advice?

 

[Wolf316]

Decent first half terrible second half but we got the three points and that’s what matters.

 

[marrs-guitar]

It's frustrating that no matter the coach, no matter the personnel on the field, we just can't handle these type of games.

We just never seem to coolly dispatch the dregs of the league. It doesn't even need to be a thrashing, just keep the focus on the match until you've knocked in a couple of goals and kill the match off, but it always seems to end up either 1-0, 0-0 or 0-1 in such matches. I'm dreading most of our remaining home games.

I feel for the BBC only having this match to show on match of the Day tonight as it was one of the poorest quality games for the PL that I've seen in a good while. So many misplaced passes and players either skying the ball into the air or missing their kick when it counts.

 

[Axle]

I guess when people say it evens itself out over a season they are right.

We have been conned out of a few points for VAR, but we’ve made it back with performances like this and v Burnley

 

[VancouverWolf]

The best thing I can take from today (yes obviously apart from the 3 points) is I’ve learned a new word, torpid, I never knew it existed and now I’ve looked it up I can add it to my hard drive, thank you

I googled ‘torpid’ meaning and it said……”see Sir Ron’s post “

 

[Woolywolf]

We have no one on the bench that can have an impact. We’ve got a few options to help see the game out, but no quality to bring on when energy levels are running low. Hopefully GON gets what he needs in the summer to give us real depth

 

[VancouverWolf]

Grow up your talking like we lost 6-0

He’s got a point…..
Our second half was B A D.

Same pitch, same opposition, same weather, same ref etc and it was Jekyll and Hyde.

 

[Scallywolf]

Rubbish game, especially second half. It looked like we didn’t know what to do when we got the ball. Plenty of misplaced passes, ball going under feet, no urgency, no creativity, nothing. We had plenty of time when we got the ball but just seemed at a loss what to do with it. Only good thing was we scored a lovely goal and Sarabia is proving to be a very important and excellent player for us.

Having said that I couldn’t care less. 3 points is 3 points and I’m chuffed to bits when I look at the league table.

Reminded me, very much of the home game against Huddersfield a few seasons ago, which of course, we lost. GON was aware this was a potential banana skin, but got us through it.

We are allowed performances like that after what we have achieved and where we are this season.

 

[marrs-guitar]

We have no one on the bench that can have an impact. We’ve got a few options to help see the game out, but no quality to bring on when energy levels are running low. Hopefully GON gets what he needs in the summer to give us real depth

He could have brought on Doyle far earlier for Hwang - who may as well not have turned up for work today - and that would have given us more control in midfield, especially if he had given up the tactic of Lemina almost trying to play as a number 10, which meant that our midfield was wide open for no good reason.