Post Match report for the Wolves game - Sunday, 9th May 2021

PREMIER LEAGUE 20/21: Wolverhampton Wanderers V Brighton - 9/5/21, P35.


* * * * * ALBION THROW IT ALL AWAY * * * * *

RESULT: 2-1 ~ Dunk . (h-t 0-1) . SHAPE: 4-4-2


VENUE: Molineux, Wolverhampton - eighteenth away match of thirty-five fixtures to date.
Game played behind closed doors due to current covid protocols . Sunday at noon.
PRE-MATCH: Brighton fans nationwide could watch this lunchtime contest on freeview and chew the fat over whether it held very much significance in that great scheme of completing all football leagues during May.
WEATHER: dry with sun . KIT: blue & white.

GRAHAM POTTER shrugged off speculation regarding Spurs and concentrated on preparations for attempting to better Prem tallies from three consecutive seasons beforehand. He still had a way to go but characteristic optimism precluded any doubts surfacing in public.
Jahanbakhsh started in lieu of injured Veltman. Tau joined substitutes.

TEAM . . . . . . . . . . 26 Sanchez
. . . . 3 White, 4 Webster, 5 Dunk, 33 Burn
. 16 Jahanbakhsh, 13 Gross, 8 Bissouma, 11 Trossard
. . . . . . . . . . 18 Welbeck . . 9 Maupay

BENCH: 23 Steel, 7 Connolly, 17 Alzate, 19 Izquierdo, 22 Tau, 24 Propper.
15 Moder (58), 10 Mac Allister (58), 29 Zeqiri (78).


GOALS: 0-1 - 13 . DUNK climbs and heads in from a corner by Gross.
1-1 - 76 . a one-two combo in visitors area is fired home.
2-1 - 90 . Wolves winner gives them the points very late on.


INCIDENTS: 4 - Sanchez saves . 10 - away attacks . 16 - Burn falls in box . 19 - Trossard blocked . 25 - Dunk denied . 25 - Burn effort . 27 - Maupay miss . 49 - Sanchez holds . 50 - Sannchez saves . 56 - Sanchez catches . 65 - hosts miss . 66 - Sanchez parries . 69 - Sanchez saves . 71 - Sanchez collects . 75 - Sanchez catches . 84 - hosts miss .

YELLOWS: 85 – Sanchez, 91 - Bissouma . . REDS: 53 - Dunk as last man . 90+7 - Maupay language to Ref.

SUBS: 58 - Moder & Mac Allister for Trossard & Jahanbakhsh . 78 - Zeqiri for Welbeck.


TIMELINE: going a goal up after something of a tardy beginning set the stage for getting points here.
Build up continued to put visitors in offensive mode but chances would not convert into a second score.
In the second period hosts reshaped to match blue & white opponents.
But the straight red altered balance of the play, where locals were expected to take advantage.
Enforced alterations saw obvious away attackers withdrawn.
Seagulls moved men around to maintain a defensive two banks of four.
Hosts equaliser meant all hands to the pumps as the clock wound down.
A very late goal was conceded.
Albion went home disappointed, having shot themselves in the foot.


FUNDAMENTALS: poss 61%-39%, on target 6-3, off target 10-2, corners 10-5,
fouls 12-7, yellows 2-2, reds 0-2, subs 3-3, shape 4231-4411 . . . . . . . gd-5 pt37 po15

CONSEQUENCES: the season grinds on & on but hopes & dreams are still to become reality.

FS


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