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Villa get us back underway. Goals please!
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If I knew nothing about this season and you told me one of these teams was third and the other was bottom I wouldn’t believe you. That half was mid-table fodder at best. Boos at the break.
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Wolves kick us off and we are underway at Molineux.
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Wolves XI: Sá; Mosquera, Santi Bueno, Toti; Tchatchoua, Joao Gomes, Andre, Hugo Bueno; Bellegarde, Armstrong, Mané.
Subs: Johnstone, Doherty, Wolfe, Lima, Gomes, Olagunju, Gomes, Arokodare, Edozie.
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Aston Villa XI: Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne; Onana, Luiz; Sancho, Rogers, Buendia; Watkins.
Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Maatsen, Mings, Bogarde, Barkley, Bailey, Abraham, Alysson.
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Aston Villa fans are nervous about this one. Wolves have not lost at home against their Midlands rivals since 2020 and generally have a decent record in this fixture when it’s played at Molineux. After a slump in form Unai Emery’s side are no longer looking up the table and instead have a resurgent Manchester United breathing uncomfortably down their neck like an unwanted admirer on a sweaty dancefloor. With others in the hunt for Europe starting to appear in Villa’s rearview mirror, it is a bad time for the goals to have dried up, but that they have. Four goals in their last five games have been enough to earn one two draws, two defeats and one win.
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Out of the FA Cup and handed a testing tie against Lille in the Europa League, the next month is going to be crucial in determining the outcome of Villa’s season. In theory this is exactly the kind of fixture they would want right now, a struggling opponent with one of the league’s worst defences, but Wolves will be up for this.
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For Rob Edwards’ team, the rest of this season should be about creating enough of a platform to come straight back up. Edwards needs to find positivity in performances and get as many points on the board as possible, even if it all feels a little futile. Eight of their 10 points this season have been earned over the past 10 matches, which is encouraging. Emery said Villa’s win in the reverse fixture was one his team “didn’t deserve” in his pre-match briefing before the short trip to Wolverhampton, which is interesting motivational material to say the least.
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Ross Barkley, Jadon Sancho and Tammy Abraham may come into the Villa side, who are missing John McGinn and Youri Tielemans, as well as Boubacar Kamara, who is done for the rest of the season. Hwang Hee-chan is missing for Wolves due to a calf problem and Ladislav Krejci is suspended.
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January window arrival Angel Gomes could make a return to a starting XI where Mateus Mané, the eye-catching 18-year-old forward, will likely continue his run of starts.
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Key events
90+3 min All four Gomes are on for Wolves.
90+3 min Cash is booked for a trip on Mané as the youngster looks to break. That’ll cost Villa a few more seconds. Armstrong goes off (slowly) and is replaced by Rodrigo Gomes.
90+1 min Decent Wolves break lead by Arokodare that ends in a blocked Armstrong shot.
90 min The board goes up and it’s seven minutes of added time.
89 min Tchatchoua, who has been fantastic this half, makes a great tackle on Maatsen to stop a promising attack and then wins a free-kick of his own. Angel Gomes is coming on for André.
88 min Tchatchoua get over to block another Villa cross and it comes back off Maatsen. Cheers from the home fans.
85 min Maatsen drives in a low cross and Santi Bueno gets across Ambraham to block his shot. Corner, but should it have been? Last touch was off the striker. Fortunately it comes to nothing. Brazilian forward Alysson is on for Watkins. Not his night at all.
83 min João Gomes has really got about this half, sometimes illegally. He nips in in midfield to pinch it (legally) from Onana. The home fans like it.
81 min Someone has put a tocket up Tchatchoua. Another dart down the right results in a dangerous cross and a half-chance for Mané. Tolu Arokodare has come on for Bellegarde.
79 min Somehow this has become and end-to-end contest. Villa, and perhaps more suprisingly Wolves, committing men going forward. Rogers has come to life a bit and twice creates chances with driving runs towards the byline, both times Wolves clear.
76 min Smart save from Sá as Maatsen shoots from close range. It was a lovely reverse pass from Barkley to find his teammate in space in the box but the snapshot was straight at the Wolves keeper. That’s Villa’s best effort in a long time.
74 min Bailey goes into the book for a tug on Hugo Bueno. Clever stuff from the Wolves defender to get in front of the winger and draw the foul.
73 min Wolves defenders are standing up to this task, they’re chucking themselves in front of crosses and shots. A long way to go yet.
71 min Two-minute stoppage for a new headset and we’re back underway.
69 min The ref has disappeared to get a headset change. Not sure who’s on tech support for the PGMO, but they’re having a tough week after the shenanigans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last Sunday. Two more Villa changes, Ian Maatsen is on for Digne and Tammy Abraham has replaced Buendia.
66 min Mosquera’s long throw causes panic in the Villa box but the threat passes when an over-eager Mosquera shoots against his own player.
62 min Did Martínez take the ball out of his area there? Mané chases down a long ball over the top and the Villa keeper slides out to collect and nearly handles it outside of the box. That was close. The volume has gone up at Molineux.
Goal! Wolves 1-0 Aston Villa (João Gomes 61)
A breakthrough! João Gomes feeds the ball out to Tchatchoua, who continues down the right and sweeps over a low cross. It bobbles back to João Gomes who keeps his composure and beats Martínez with a shot high into the net.
60 min Couple of changes for Villa, Leon Bailey is on for Sancho and Ross Barkley replaces Douglas Luiz.
59 min Cheap corner earned by Villa and Onana is found by Douglas Luiz, but the big man can’t get over the ball and his header goes harmlessly over.
57 min Nice turn and run from Onana to surge through midfield before he’s tugged down by Bellegarde. Yellow for the Wolves man.
56 min Tchatchoua shows off some his rarely seen but electric pace and stands up a cross that Cash heads clear. The Molineux faithful like that.
54 min Wolves enjoying a bit of attacking momentum and Buendia brings it to a halt. He’s booked now. That must be a totting up offence as it wasn’t a malicious coming together with Bellegarde.
52 min Poor defensive header from Villa there and again it’s Toti who gets the chance to shoot. Another poor contact from the edge of the box but this time it nearly comes to Bellegarde.
50 min Sadly, the tepid tempo hasn’t really changed since the break. Ah, Buendia on the deck again. This time it’s Armstrong who has caught him late and for that offence he goes into the book.
47 min Wolves can’t get out at the moment, Villa are pressing high and the home side can’t unpick the lock at the moment. Cash sends over a deep cross to no one. Buendia, who might have been the intended target, is on the floor for some reason.
Peeeeeeep!
Villa get us back underway. Goals please!
Another optimistic Wolves fan, Eanna Mac Craith, has emailed in:
Not a great game, but if we can at least equal Derby’s points record and derail Villa then it’s all good. Season has been awful, so any tiny crumb of comfort we will take!
Couple of EFL games also going on this evening. In the Championship it’s 1-1 between Bristol City and Watford at Ashton Gate. In League Two, home-team Harrogate have just equalised against Cheltenham. A point would mean the Sulphurites (what a nickname) will remain in the bottom two, as it stands.
Half-time: Wolves 0-0 Aston Villa
If I knew nothing about this season and you told me one of these teams was third and the other was bottom I wouldn’t believe you. That half was mid-table fodder at best. Boos at the break.
43 min Bold prediction, but I don’t think we’re going to get a goal before half-time. Since the Douglas Luiz chance we’ve had very little in the way of goulmouth action.
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