Post Match report for the Wolves game - Sunday, 5th October 2025
PREMIER LEAGUE 25/26: Wolves V Brighton - 5/10/25 P7
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RESULT: 1-1 ~ van Hecke . (h-t 1-0)
VENUE: Molineux, Wolverhampton - fourth away match of 7 fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: this was the third of three straight away contests in all competitions and we had won the previous two.
Brighton fans enjoyed visits here historically and there did not seem a better time to add more fun to those games.
WEATHER: not bad . GATE: 29,504 . KIT: violet . ATMOSPHERE: many murmurings in the away end.
FABIAN HURZELER got luck of the draw, followed by fortunate fickle finger of fate in getting positive results the last twice.
His bugbear was consistency and fate had handed him an opportunity to silence critics for a while going into the second international break.
FH had set out his seasons stall from a mixed group of aging pros, inexperienced squadies and teenage prospects.
He decided to ring changes when selecting the eleven.
SQUAD: 38 McGill (gk)
INJURED: 13 Hinshelwood 22 Mitoma 34 Veltman . REHAB: 4 Webster 7 March .
OOL: 3 Julio 16 Cashin 28 Ferguson 32 Sarmiento 33 ORiley 39 Rushworth (gk) 40 Buonanotte
LEFT: Lamptey Enciso Estupinan Pedro Adingra Offiah Mullins Barco
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 27 Wieffer 6 van Hecke 5 Dunk 24 Kadioglu
. 8 Gruda 17 Baleba 26 Ayari 11 Minteh
. . . . . 25 Gomez . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 10 Rutter (46), 9 Tzimas (70), 29 de Cuyper (70), 20 Milner (77)
BENCH: 23 Steele 14 Watson 19 Kostoulas 21 Boscagli 42 Coppola
GOALS:
1-0 - 21 . weak defending allows a strike that bounces off inside of the crossbar and so an og from Verbruggen.
1-1 - 86 . van Hecke powers home a header following a short corner by Minteh and cross from Tzimas
YELLOWS: Baleba 20, Dunk 36, Wieffer 43, Welbeck 45+ . . RED: Wolves manager 20
CHANGES: 46 Rutter for Baleba
70 Tzimas & de Cuyper for Gruda & Wieffer . 77 Milner for Gomez
FIRST HALF: hosts go forward with intent and are ahead by a quarter of the way thru this match.
Visitors huff & puff, kick & rush, chase the game but still go into the intermission a goal down.
SECOND HALF: ditto above for play after restart plus a tactical sub.
Thereafter more subs appear at intervals.
Travellers now have momentum, pile it on late and equalise just inside ninety minutes.
IN THE END: on balance of stats alone it was two points dropped once more to bottom-six opposition.
NUMBERS: poss 42%-58%, on target 3-6, off target 3-11, corners 2-8,
fouls 13-9, yellows 1-4, subs 5-4, shape 433-4231 . . . . . gd0 pt9 po12
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