Wolves fans share their thoughts following Liverpool 2 Wolves 1 a scoreline that doesn't tell the full story.
GEORGE LAKIN
Gutted. Totally dominated the second half. On balance we deserved something from the game.
Munetsi was a revelation (at centre forward?) and Bellegarde worked exceptionally hard again. Their physicality, energy and pressing unsettled Liverpool to the point it nullified them at source.
Easy to say Munetsi/Bellegarde should’ve started, but in hindsight I understand Pereira going with the side he did after that Villa display. What’s important (and a reason to be confident going forward) was that the manager showed yet again he is capable of making effective in-game changes.
A moment of sheer class from Cunha gave us every opportunity, but we just couldn’t land that final blow. It wasn’t for the want of trying though.
Overarching feeling is pride in the team today. They left absolutely nothing out their second half, very hard to criticise even in the face of defeat.
I’m taking far more positives from that performance than negatives.
Onwards, with belief still fully intact, to the next 9 games- each represents a genuine opportunity to pick up points. If we perform anything like the level we did in the second half today, every single one of those games is there for the taking.
CRAIG HICKEY
JOHN TARAS
PAM WELLS
KARL WHITEHOUSE
Our defending leading up to the opening goal was questionable when Toti Gomes helped Luis Diaz score. This mistake occurred after we had no issues in the early part of the game, where he should have cleared it away from goal. This setback still kept us in the game as long as we could press the Liverpool goal to catch them out on a counterattack or with a set-piece movement.
Toti and Agbadou appeared a bit shaky at the back, getting in each other’s way in defence. The back line clearly needed to be solid to keep Liverpool from scoring further goals.
We faced another moment of controversy when there was a push on Agbadou before the penalty decision, but VAR cleared it, leaving us to face the challenge of getting back into the game.
At half-time, Wolves needed to be more clinical in their shooting, testing the goalkeeper who hadn’t faced much trouble. We worried that two of our three backline players, who were booked, needed to be on their best behaviour to avoid a red card. We could not afford that, as the floodgates might have opened, and some decision-making during the game had been poor.
Vitor Pereira made changes at the break, bringing on two fresh players to try to gain a foothold in the game. Munetsi, one of those substitutes, almost got us back in with a run towards goal.
VAR helped us this time by correctly overturning a penalty decision that was given on the field, but we were lucky there.
During this period of pressure in the second half, in Liverpool’s half, we managed to get back into the game with Cunha, who was there at the right time to score. We needed to keep it up and press for an equaliser.
In the second half, we caused Liverpool issues in their own half, creating chances and making them very nervous after what had happened in their previous game.
We felt proud of our team as we deserved to get a draw. There were plenty of positives to take from this game, where we had chances to level it up. This would bode well for the rest of the campaign, where we competed well in difficult games. We could hold our heads high after this and managed to keep Liverpool from getting any shots on our goal in the second half with a different approach.