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Football writer for The Athletic FC, focusing mainly on Wolves. Father of two, lover of cricket.

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FULL TIME
WOLVES 1-4 UNITED
Positives: Wolves scored and had a few decent spells on the front foot.
Negatives: They have lost again and some of the defending was as bad as the dying days of Pereira's reign.
Overall: Abject but predictably so.
#WWFC

08.12.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

1-4. Fernandes drills the penalty into the bottom corner. It looked like Cunha wanted it but the United captain was adamant he was taking it. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Penalty to United. Handball against Mosquera, who gets a yellow card. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Arokodare, Mane and Hugo Bueno on for Strand Larsen, Arias and Toti. Ironic cheers from the South Bank as Strand Larsen and Arias are withdrawn. Strand Larsen not happy and appears like he wants to respond but Edwards gets hold of him and he eventually sits down and slams down a bench coat. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wolves give the ball away comically in midfield, United break. Fernandes crosses, Hoever watches Mount run between him and Mosquera, Agbadou plays him onside and Mount slots home from close-ish range. Simple as you like. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GOAL. An unmarked Mount makes it 1-3. Awful, awful defending. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Wolves have responded well to that second Mbuemo goal and are having their best spell so far. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bellegarde injured at the start of that move. Great tackle by Shaw, to be fair. He's replaced by the lesser-spotted Fer Lopez. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bellegarde gives it away in midfield and United break with Dalot squaring for Mbuemo to finish. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GOAL. Mbuemo restores United lead. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Big tackle by Agbadou in the Wolves box to prevent Cunha applying the final touch to a United counter. All started with a needless Hoever backheel. #WWFC

08.12.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hoever cross from the right is helped back across goal by Moller Wolfe and Bellegarde forces it in. That's half-time and there are some cheers. Not sure whether they're ironic or not. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GOOOOAAAAAALLLL. Bellegarde. 1-1. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

#ClownCar

08.12.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bit better from Wolves as they keep possession for a spell and move the ball slightly quicker but Bellegarde then bends a shot high and wide. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where to start with that? Horrible by Andre, who stops playing thinking he'll get a free-kick before passing straight to Cunha. Mosquera then fails to close down Cunha, who passes to Mount. Mount falls over but still gets up and holds off Mosquera, then Johnstone fails to stop a tame shot. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

1-0 United. Bruno. Shocking goal to concede. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Mazraoui down at present after being caught late by Arias. Wondered whether VAR might take a look at that challenge but it appears not as play has restarted. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A couple of important early saves from Johnstone. United making all the early running as expected. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Game underway. Wolves have Krejci, back from injury, in midfield alongside Andre in the absence of the injured Marshall Munetsi and suspended Joao Gomes. #WWFC

08.12.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bizarre spectacle at Molineux of a light show happening in front of thousands of empty seats. #WWFC

08.12.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FULL TIME
WOLVES 0-1 FOREST
Where to start? It wasn't as good as the performance at Villa. It wasn't as bad as some of the earlier ones. But the lack of quality in attacking areas is chronic.
Again, no goals, no points and no hope. Grim times. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Munetsi has sat down on the bench so Wolves will play out the remainder of stoppage time a man down. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wolves down to 10 players, at least temporarily, after Munetsi injures his ankle and limps off. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Mane fires the ball across the face of goal but a full-strength Larsen can't get there. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Arokodare, Mane and Hoever on for Arias, Mosquera and Tchatchoua. Mane has a chance straight away but scuffs his shot. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cross comes in from the right and Jesus gets there before both Agbadou's head and Johnstone's hands to head home. Not great from Johnstone, who had done well to that point. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GOAL. Jesus heads home again and I don't think this one will be ruled out. 0-1. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Sure enough, offside call stands so no decision to make on the possible foul. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

VAR checking for a possible Forest penalty. Yates was given offside before appearing to be shoved so, if the offside call had been wrong then Wolves might be in trouble. But first replay we've seen suggests he was offside. #WWFC

03.12.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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