I think last season Wolves were surprising a lot of teams, but not this season. They have an expensively assembled team with one or two players destined to end up at the biggest clubs in Europe. But despite that, they're 11th - should be doing much better when you look at the quality in that team.I was following the action on bet365 website and put a quid on Wolves at 55 minutes they were 19-1 for the win,cashed out a tenner when they scored and put a quid on Newcastle and then did the same,had a feeling it was going to be one of those days,Wolves will keep surprising a lot of teams.
Spot on, I really don’t understand what Pep is waiting for. It can’t get any worse than Otamendi.
Depending on Stones and whether he will be fit or not, I do believe Garcia could get the nod ahead of Otamendi against Palace.
I fkng hope so.
A normal coach would have signed a CB, but Pep is no normal coach. He innovates and will do it his way. However, that said, FFP is the reason given for no CB signing. And don't forget that there aren't too many CBs out there who play the Pep way. Much as it annoys me to say so, Maguire would have suited us far more than he suits Manure.
Vinnie brought out the best in Ota. With Vinnie directing him and reining in Ota's natural instinct to over commit, he looked excellent.Hopefully. Otamendi has to be held accountable for his very poor performances this season instead of getting away with it by starting constantly.
Garcia could not do any worse than Ota vs Wolves
It means jack shit as a lot of defenders are more talented than Otamendi. Maguire is no Laporte. I’m still happy we didn’t get him.
De Ligt was my number one choice...
Perhaps after the performance of Otamendi yesterday (and Norwich), Pep might decide that it is worth giving Garcia a chance. To be fair he couldn't be much worse.
Won't happen
We play risk and reward footy - we dangle the ball in front of opponents saying 'come and try and get it off us' to draw them out of position. In essence we want teams to attack us so we can destroy them in the space they leave, but we have so much of the ball they only have limited chances to have a go and when they do (or did), Vinnie was always there to snuff out the danger. Now Vinnie's gone and Laporte's out for a while, opponents are smelling blood. Our defensive problems aren't insurmountable. We've gift wrapped a few chances to opposing teams - we can eliminate that.If we defend like that v the dipper vermin, we will be humiliated.
I can see more teams employing this style if defending against us because we seem to have trouble getting through. Coupled with our comical defending we won’t get within 6 points of the red Italian slayers.