Date: Saturday 5th March
Kickoff: 15.00
Venue: Molineux
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After a disappointing end to February, for their first game in March Wolves return to Molineux where they will host Crystal Palace.
In the reverse fixture on November 6th Crystal Palace were the victors with a 2-0 win. Palace haven’t won a game against a team above them in the league since.
Crystal Palace currently occupy 11th place in the league with 30 points. Wolves are in 8th with 10 points more.
For this game I think we can expect several changes from the side that turned out against West Ham on Sunday. Bruno Lage’s biggest problem is at RWB due to losing Nelson Semedo with a hamstring injury. He may decide to give Ki-Jana Hoever another chance but after his poor showing against West Ham Lage may turn to the experience of Jonny Otto.
Patrick Vieira has a couple of players missing through injury. Nathan Ferguson is side lined with a hamstring injury and Joel Ward is also unavailable due to a groin issue.
Gem’s prediction: 2-0
Wolves v Crystal Palace Match Day [LIVE]
posted on 6/3/22
posted on 6/3/22
Podence looked like a little boy running around yesterday. He is a strange player, when on form he looks a world beater but yesterday he would not have been out of place on the local park.
Need to up our game for the rest of the season.
posted on 6/3/22
Did not help him being played centre forward, he is usually lively and can thread through dangerous passes we certainly need him on form
posted on 6/3/22
I thought Podence was the only one that looked to be positive and try to create something yesterday, no one else seemed to be in his wavelength though.
posted on 6/3/22
That was really bizarre wasn't it. Surely Hwang was the obvious option in the middle?
posted on 6/3/22
Playing without a ‘proper’ centre forward just didn’t work for us yesterday. Bit of an enigma is Podence. Inconsistent not just from one match to the next but from one minute to the next. Can be very good and I would certainly put him ahead of Hwang and Trincao in the pecking order at the moment. But he does give the ball away a lot
posted on 6/3/22
I don't really know why people single that out with Podence, he is literally the only player in the side that tries to make something happen with forward passes.
He could do the same as the others and make a safe pass every time and see where that gets us.
posted on 6/3/22
Playing without centre forwards works ok for Man City, our problem is Hwang, Podence & Neto ain't De Bruyne, Mahrez and Grealish.... quite.
Safe passes is an interesting topic, I've got a feeling that some of our guys are more concerned with their pass completion percentages than looking for the higher risk killer pass that's going to unlock a defence.
posted on 9/3/22
The comment I made about Podence giving the ball away did not relate to adventurous attacking through balls. His 5 yard ‘safe’ passes regularly go to the opposition. He is good at running with the ball but the accuracy of his passing is very poor
posted on 12/3/22
How isn’t Romero interfering?