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Wolves bite again
10 February 2010
A first half goal from David Jones proved enough to secure victory for Wolves at Molineux on Wednesday night.
In what could not be described as an inspiring contest on a snowy evening, the fixture did mark the debut of Eidur Gudjohnsen and the second coming of Younes Kaboul, who made his first start since returning from Portsmouth. But the night was not marked with any goals from the team in white shirts, a team which included five changes to the one that began against Aston Villa on Saturday.
Sebastien Bassong, Jermaine Jenas and Niko Kranjcar were added to the mix along with Kaboul and Gudjohnsen.
David Bentley warmed the palms of Marcus Hahnemann in the first minute with a cross shot that the American keeper helped over the bar. Gareth Bale was then not too far off target with a free-kick to the right of the area.
Heurelho Gomes did well to apply a punch to an inswinging Matt Jarvis corner and a massed defence prevented the follow-up shot further troubling the keeper.
The speed of Jermaine Jenas took him deep into Wolves territory after a hopeful prod skywards by Defoe. The midfielder nodded the ball around Hahnemann but his route back to the path of the ball was blocked off.
Niko Kranjcar could have opened the scoring on 20 minutes following clever interchange between Defoe and Eidur Gudjohnsen, but Hahnemann foiled the midfielder with his legs before Kevin Doyle sprung our defences at the other end and burst clear. It took a Michael Dawson lunge to repel the initial danger from a Doyle drive and a slide from Jenas to divert for a corner.
There was no getting away from the danger seven minutes later when nobody picked up the late arriver David Jones, who was in place to steer a precise effort past Gomes first time from a Jarvis cross from the left.
Molineux came to life and the crowd were screaming for a penalty when Doyle came under a challenge from Michael Dawson, with referee Mr Clattenburg waving appeals away. Jarvis then tested Gomes to his near post.
Adiene Guedioura strode through with relative ease before Gomes came off his line to claim as Wolves, galvanised by their goal, cranked up the pressure going into half-time.
Harry made a half-time change in the shape of Wilson Palacios, who was introduced in place of Jenas. Kranjcar zipped a shot into the near post via a deflection in the opening moments following a neat flick from Gudjohnsen as the team attempted to settle into more of a stride than they managed to establish in the first half.
Bale showed great enterprise down the left to conduct a chance for Tom Huddlestone, but the midfielder just lost control at the vital moment.
There was much knocking at the door, but Hahnemann was not nearly being worked enough or close to being so.
Peter Crouch took over from Gudjohnsen just after the hour, but little was happening in terms of goalmouth action or midfield creativity. Cue the arrival of Luka Modric on the scene - Kranjcar withdrawn.
There was plenty of forward-going intent, but Wolves were stubborn and there was not a lot of guile being displayed in attempts to break them down, with Modric and Bale being the exceptions on occasions.
Bentley had the ball in the net with five minutes left but he had already been flagged for offside and Huddlestone drilled our last shooting chance wide in the final minute - much to the delight of the majority of a crowd of 27,992.
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Swannydownthelane.....great times,great memories
Come On You SPURS
We have given Wolves just under 25% of their points this season. CL form fookin bullsh1t!!!!
Were you listening to Radio Five Live on the way home as well, Chingford??Originally Posted by Chingfordspur
Getting slating by Arsenal fans this morning...urrgghhhh!!!!
Wolves must be thinking....
Cant we play spurs every week?
Or are we Accrington Stanley in disguise?
If wolves stay in the league for next season.
I can see them doing a tripple or a quad over us if we don't learn from those games.
And the last West Midlands team to do the double over us? It was Birmingham City in season 2007-08.
What happened to them, at the end of that season? They got relegated!!!
Be afraid, Wolverhampton Wanderers, be VERY afraid!!!!
How ya doin babe = Oh and cool cookies last night . Did you manage to get home ok in those blizzards
what went wrong simple fooking everything
Yup, thanks Kev! Took a while to get out of that car park, but made it home by 11.15, just in time to see MOTD (which wasn't really a good thing).
Didn't hit any more snow - you folks in the South East copped it much worse than us.
It was great to meet everyone and I'm sorry that we didn't have time to sit down and have a drink with you & the gang beforehand. Will have to fly Swanny in by helicopter, next time, to save him from getting stuck in the traffic.
Your poor dad must have been shattered, by the time he got home. What a trooper!
How has Modric been playing recently - smaller player but I do rate him. Even though I don't get to see many games?
i hate wolves
Dad is totally peeved after this game , he said he didn't want to travel to that many away games , after the way we played against Man Utd in the CC and then the way we played against Wolves just capped it
So far this season, Wolves are the only team to do the "Double" over Spurs, while Spurs have done the "Double" over West Ham United and Wigan Athletic.
We have 10 more Premier League matches left to play this season and we also could potentially do the "Double" over Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Burnley, Portsmouth and Sunderland.
On the other hand, we could also have the "Double" done to us by Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Stoke City.
Last season, Spurs did the "Double" over Manchester City and West Ham United, while no team did the "Double" over us.
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