MATCH REPORT – WOLVES 0-4 LEICESTER

The opening minutes saw Wolves play fast and attacking football, we looked  to get Adama on the ball as much as possible and straight away he caused problems for Leciester’s defence. Within the space of two minutes he beat his defender on a great run down our right and then shortly after, cutting inside and beating defenders. Despite Wolves’s constant attacks, we couldn’t find the breakthrough, and against the run of play, with their first attack, Tielmans finished brilliantly as he volleyed from the edge of the box straight into the top left hand corner, giving Jose Sa no chance, and in doing so, giving Leicester an undeserved lead. Going forward we didn’t drop our heads at this stage and Adama continued to fight and cause issues. Nunes came close with a shot on target, a great cross field ball from Collins found Adama who found Bueno who had a shot, and then Kilman’s header from a corner was only just over. Defensively however, we were so easily penetrated by players such as Maddison. Not only this, but we also caused so many issues for ourselves, Kilman and Jonny in particular had such poor games in terms of poor passing.

The game was end to end and surely entertaining for the neutral but the spaces left by Wolves in the midfield was similar to a Sunday league game. At certain points we committed far too many forwards leaving a huge space for Leicester’s attacking players to play with. Even though our opponents sat at the bottom of the league, scoring goals was never their issue and Leicester’s manager had pinpointed our weaknesses at right back and he looked to exploit this to get Leicester the goals they needed. Jonny, who was booked after eight minutes after a poor touch and tackle, was getting bombarded with Leicester’s more creative players constantly running at him. It was exactly this issue that resulted in Leicester’s second goal as Barnes ran at Jonny, playing an easy one-two with Dewsbury-Hall in the box and all Barnes had to do was slide the ball past Sa. A well-worked goal but far too much room was given to the Leicester player. 2-0 down after twenty minutes.

Once the second goal went in, the atmosphere in the stadium turned sour and despite a great block from a Leicester defender to prevent Costa at the back post in the 41st minute, Wolves went into the changing room at half time to the echoes of boos which reverberated around the ground. 13 shots and still nothing to show for it, while Leicester only had two shots, both on target and both resulting in goals. These stats alone tell you everything about the differences between the two sides.