📆 Saturday 20th April
🕒 7:30pm
🏟 Molineux
📺 Sky Sports
Live @ https://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/461566
One match ban enabled
The first of three home games in a little under seven days sees the visit of one of the three title chasers to Molineux. Arsenal arrive after rare home defeat last weekend to Villa and a tough midweek champions league trip to Munich.
The Villa defeat (first since December) showed that they are not quite as invincible their recent form suggested. The reverse fixture looks tighter on paper than was the reality, 2 down after 13 minutes and taken apart by a superb team goal for the second, it looked like getting ugly but we kept it down to 2 and even got a late Cunha consolation.
We could see Rayan Ait-Nouri return to the squad, Cunha's return to the squad and goal scoring form is welcome, as is the return to fitness of Hwang. Craig Dawson reportedly requires an operation on his groin problem and Pedro Neto is still a couple of weeks away from a return.
It would be interesting to get an early goal and put them under a bit of pressure and see how they react as we approach the squeaky end of the season. We need to find a way of stopping the leaks at the other end though.
Only a fool would predict anything other than an away win though, goldi's prediction 1-1....
Wolves v Arsenal Match Thread
posted 1 week, 5 days ago
Bouba must be in contention to keep his place
posted 1 week, 5 days ago
Fair play to forest for calling out Var and alleged corruption, if more clubs support them it'd be a good step
Anyone know of any other club that feels hard done by from Var
posted 1 week, 5 days ago
Wolves women managed to do what Coventry just failed to, came back from 0-3 down to win 4-3 against Forest at Bucks Head this afternoon. Nice one ladies.
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
comment by Tino Bambino - Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead 🤌🤌🤌 (U2087)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Fair play to forest for calling out Var and alleged corruption, if more clubs support them it'd be a good step
Anyone know of any other club that feels hard done by from Var
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The bias is real, conscious or not, there's no doubt in my mind that there's an unprofessional attitude towards certain clubs amongst referees.
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
I’ve always felt the underlying bias towards the bigger clubs is down to how the refereeing system works. Like most people in the game referees are ambitious and want to be given the big games. They will only get big games if they get good assessments by the big clubs. Something they will only get by not making marginal and key decisions against them
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Just how good was Boubacar Traore on Saturday
https://x.com/mortimer_ben/status/1782050871146119287?s=61&t=h78Hs9c2AKNly8JUPo5sMA
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
I’ve always felt the underlying bias towards the bigger clubs is down to how the refereeing system works. Like most people in the game referees are ambitious and want to be given the big games. They will only get big games if they get good assessments by the big clubs. Something they will only get by not making marginal and key decisions against them
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Very good point, ambitious refs will want to be involved in cup finals, Champions League, internationals and the big tournaments. Swaying marginal decisions against the bigger clubs will naturally attract more negative press than it would against Forest or Wolves.
Was listening to 5 live this morning and they were peddling the line that there is no bias whatsoever and that our refs, although not flawless, are even handed and professional at all times. This was mainly from their "chief football correspondent" John Murray who I must admit have no time for. Peter Walton was on too, ditto.
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Light hearted moment in the second half when a section of the South Bank "sorts" were heard singing
"Ben White, your spray tan is sh**e."
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Followed by ..."Ingerlund, Ingerlund, Ingerlund..."
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Speculation that Lopetegui may be set to replace Moyes as West Ham manager