Wolves (H) 2pm Sunday 17th December Live on Sky

steve

MOTM could be interesting

MIAHammer

Let’s try and keep a clean sheet now.

buffybegood

steve said:

MOTM could be interesting

It's just nice to have plenty of contenders, rather than "best of a bad bunch" as it was last Sunday.

PrestonHammer

I can see a JWP special coming up.

Yeoldhammer

Would love a Kudus hat trick to round things off

buffybegood

PrestonHammer said:

I can see a JWP special coming up.

One of his better attempts since he's been with us.

chicagohammer

ScotHammer said:

I know it was a Wolves goal, but VAR spoils the game IMO. Was that clear and obvious?

In a way it was, in real time to my eye, he looked clearly off yet the on field decision was to award the goal, the VAR still frame showed it to be much closer than I thought due to Emerson’s lunge.

The on field decision could strictly have been upheld but on balance i think the correct decision was arrived at

MIAHammer

Paqueta limping. Get him off now.

buffybegood

chicagohammer said:

ScotHammer said:

I know it was a Wolves goal, but VAR spoils the game IMO. Was that clear and obvious?

In a way it was, in real time to my eye, he looked clearly off yet the on field decision was to award the goal, the VAR still frame showed it to be much closer than I thought due to Emerson’s lunge.

The on field decision could strictly have been upheld but on balance i think the correct decision was arrived at

I think the closer bit was whether he was ahead of the ball or not, I think that's what saved us. He coulda been ahead of Emerson (as he was) but behind the ball and still have been onside, but fortunately he was just ahead of the ball.

buffybegood

Mubama and Ings coming on for Paqueta and Kudus.

buffybegood

Kehrer on for Coufal for the 7 added minutes.

chicagohammer

Have they been watching Benny’s free kick strategies

chicagohammer

Really good win, great team performance, a clean sheet and 3 points, you have got to be happy with that.

Well done all

buffybegood

3-0 FT 😊😊😊

Yeoldhammer

Good display and a bit more attacking than previous games.

MIAHammer

Up to 7th for now

Lukerz

Thorn around 😉

thornburyiron

What’s your problem Lukerz. Until our 3rd went in I thought we were getting a bit shaky especially as we dodged one with the offside decision which could have gone their way.
Once the 3rd went in we resumed playing how we had been for the first half.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

If we can stay solid at the back, Kudus and Bowen will get us a lot of points this season.

thornburyiron

Shame we lose Kudus in January.

Lukerz

thornburyiron said:

What’s your problem Lukerz. Until our 3rd went in I thought we were getting a bit shaky especially as we dodged one with the offside decision which could have gone their way.
Once the 3rd went in we resumed playing how we had been for the first half.

No problem. Just a shame you aren’t as active when we do well.

Lukerz

You only commented on the Wolves goal (that was disallowed). Regardless of stats, that was the easiest win we’ve had all season.

BubblesNeverDies

Vlad must have got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning, he definitely wasn't taking any prisoners today.

Slacker

Very good performance, hopefully we’re hitting a bit of form now as that’s two good displays following the nightmare last weekend.
Quite looking forward to Anfield now.

PrestonHammer

If Moyes can get us playing like that week in week out, then I have no problem with him staying till the end of the season and perhaps beyond. Well done all the players today.

Slacker

PrestonHammer said:

If Moyes can get us playing like that week in week out, then I have no problem with him staying till the end of the season and perhaps beyond. Well done all the players today.

I don’t think any team can play like that week in week out. Even Pep can’t do that.

claretandbluesky

Although it's a good problem to have we are really going to struggle to keep hold of Kudus, when he does go I see a huge profit however. He is fast strong and he can finish like a very good striker.

We seem to have spent the Rice money very well, and when JWP remembers he is a dead ball specialist as all commentators keep telling us, then even more so

Lukerz

Both first half performances in our last two games show what we can do. Aggressive, intensity, good with the ball. Clinical.

If we can repeat that more often then we can be a serious side.

Lukerz

We’ve won 8 of our last 11 games (all comps). This next run will really test us with Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal & Brighton but we can go into it in confidence. My worry is losing Kudus in January for a period of time.

buffybegood

Lukerz said:

We’ve won 8 of our last 11 games (all comps). This next run will really test us with Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal & Brighton but we can go into it in confidence. My worry is losing Kudus in January for a period of time.

Looking at the structure of the tournament, Ghana are likely to reach at least the quarter-finals, which are held on 2nd and 3rd of February. If FIFA allow a late release so he can play against Brighton on 2nd Jan, then he's likely to miss Bristol City in the FA Cup, and then away to Sheffield Utd, at home to Bournemouth and away to Man Utd.

Should Ghana make the semis and lose, they're on the 7th Feb so touch and go as to whether he'd be available at home to Arsenal on the weekend of 10/11th Feb; if they make the final then obviously he'd miss the Arsenal game but should be back for Forest the following weekend.

Should we beat Liverpool on Wednesday he'll also miss both legs of the League Cup semi-final. So he's likely to miss 3 or 4 league games, 1 or (hopefully) 2 FA Cup games and the League Cup semis if we make it thay far.