Unlucky?

It is weird for a team to play so well and lose 5-2. When we got back to 2-2 I thought we were gonna win, Kenwyne Jones' second was brilliant and the third Bent was offside before the corner. The fifth was just unlucky, a word we might get used to this season. The first penalty was NOT a foul. Then at the end of the half we were denied an obvious penalty. Things just didn't go our way, although they scored an own goal, and gave us a freekick for a back pass.

Now onto that back pass. When you stop a clear goal illegaly should you not be sent off? Had he been sent off and we scored, things would have been entirley different, it was a good poacher's goal by Doyle (our new top scorer!).

Bent and Jones is a very strong attackon it's own. I think Mancienne and Berra, again, were great. Berra looks solid and Mancienne brings calmness to the team. Halford's done well but when Foley is back we will be very strong.

SEB did not look quite fit, when we brought him and the Hof we played worse I think. Doyle and Keogh had much more energy even though they had played 80 minutes already. Sylvan had one chance he should have buried but lack of communication messed it up.

Hennessey: 7/10
Halford: 7/10
Mancienne: 7/10
Berra: 7/10
Elekobi: 7/10
Edwards: 8/10
Henry: 8/10
Castillo: 7/10
Jarvis: 7/10
Keogh: 7/10
Doyle: 810

Ebanks-Blake: 6/10
Maeirhofer: 6/10
Kightly: 7/10

MOTM: Doyler. has been superb recently, looks a class footballer and will score atleast fifteen this season.
Note: Edwards, Henry and Berra were also very good.

Fustration for the fans, but let's get ready for sunday!

To be dissapointed about losing one nil at Old Trafford for a newly promoted team can't be a bad thing. I'd have rather Kightly put it away, because the substitution when the quiet Macheda was taken off, was definitely changed the game. It was good to see Kites, Foley and SEB. Sylvan looked slightly off the pace of the game but Kightly should play at least half the game against Sunderland.

MOTM: Berra & Doyle. Another good perfromance form Berra, Doyle is looking every bit worth of the £6.5m we paid for him.

On to Sunday. Another game on the tele at the Stadium of Light, somewhere we have never one at, nor has Mick McCarthy won their in the premier league.

Hopefully the defeat mid week won't get anyone down. If we can press like we did last week, we will cause Sunderland some problems. It looks like Castillo will get the nod over Milijas. He was very quiet, and played too deep.

Prediction: Doyle to bang in another goal but Bent and Jones could create problems for the defence. 1-1

Probable Team:
Hennessey
Halford
Mancienne
Berra
Elekobi
Edwards
Henry
Castillo
Jarvis
Doyle
Keogh

Wolves v Man Utd - We're on the telly!

It's our first game against top four opposition. Luckily it's only in the league cup so nobody really cares. The only thing I really care about is the return of our key players. Ebanks-Blake returns to Old Trafford and Michael Kightly should get his first start of the season.

Owen looks set to start, Kusczak should start too for Manure. He'll get a bit of stick being ex West Br*m. Last time we faced a Premiership team in the league cup we got beat 5-1 by the Arsenal reserves and I was there. Cesc Fabregas made his first ever appearance. It was a bit worrying, and of course that season we were relegated from the prem.

Here's my line up.

GK: Marcus Hahnemann
RB: Kevin Foley
CB: Ronald Zubar
CB: Jody Craddock
LB: Matt Hill
RM: Michael Kightly
CM: Nenad Milijas
CM: Segundo Castillo
LM: David Jones
FC: Stefan Maiehofer
FC: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake

Prediction: 1-0. SEB?

Wanderer 2 Fulham 1

Our second win of the season takes us to twelth place. Last season the highest we got too at all was fifteenth. After a worrying performance at Ewood Park we definitely bounced back.

Kevin Doyle grabbed his first goal of the season, of what I've seen of him, 'Doyler' looks like a good signing. We had to score eventually from a throw in. MOTM Berra had a hand in it, nodding it on for Doyle. I don't want us to be known for that though.

http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/LeagueTable
/0,,10307~20030920,00.html

That will show you where we were six years ago today. We lost five nil at home to Chelsea live on television. One point in six games, minus sixteen goal difference.

http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/LeagueTable/0,,10307~20090920,00.html

That is the league table for this season. We are twelth with seven points, minus three goal difference. A bit better eh?

Back to our performance. On the sky sports updtaes website, the person writing the updates kept saying how much pressing we were doing, and it was working. Jarvis and Edwards are very hard working, Castillo and Henry are hard in the middle and Keogh chases all day long. Milijas was injured so he didn't start.

Hill and Stearman were also injured, so Halford slotted in at right back and Elekobi gained his place back after being dropped for being late. Elekobi is a premiership footballer. So solid, fast and good on the ball. Halford made the first goal, so he had an impact, and he's a good defender.

We held our lead into half time. Mini-Stat: All of our games have been one nil at half time. We went for it in the first ten minutes and we were rewarded. Keogh got past the Fulham defender, layed it off for Edwards who smashed it into the roof of the net. Two nil.

But, of course, we had to let them back in the game. Mancinne was the man who gave away a penalty. Murphy stuck it past Hennessey, who was also impressive.

They looked certain to score, I was shaking in nervousness. We held on though, Hennessey made a catch at the end and we all knew it was over.

It was fantastic to see Kightly get his first premier league experience, he did a good run and looked comfortbale. Ebanks-Blake looked a bit stiff, it's nice to see him back. 'The Hof' had a late introduction to the game.

Wayne Hennessey: 7/10
Greg Halford: 7/10
Michael Mancienne: 7/10
Christophe Berra: 9/10*
George Elekobi: 8/10
Dave Edwards: 7/10
Karl Henry: 7/10
Segundo Castillo: 7/10
Matt Jarvis: 7/10
Andy Keogh: 7/10
Kevin Doyle: 8/10

subs:
Stefan Maeirhofer: 6/10
Michael Kightly: 6/10
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake:6/10

Star Man: Christophe Berra, fans haven't been too convinced with him, but he showed us why Mick bought him last January for two million.

Blackburn 3 Wolves 1

Well, we've shown that we are still finding our feet in this league. A silly mix up between Karl Henry and Michael Manicenne made it hard for us. To conede from a corners was dissapointing, we need to sort that out.

We should have been one nil up, Berra's miss was shocking. whether he thought he was off or not, he still should've made sure it went in. Wayne looked like he played quite well, he made a couple of good saves.

We made Rovers look good today, I didn't get to see any of the match apart from our 1 minute stint on MOTD ;). we missed Elekobi I think, Hill looked alright but Elekobi's presence juts seems, important. With Foley, Kightly, SEB still out let's hope they can be back as soon as possible because we are missing them so much. With Milijas, Jarvis and Kightly in a midfield, there is no doubt we will create chances for Sylvan, Doyle and 'The Hof'. He took his chance quite well I thought but it was too late for any sort of comeback.

Hennessey 7/10
Stearman 6/10
Berra 6/10
Mancienne 6/10
Hill 7/10
Halford 6/10
Milijas 6/10
Henry 6/10
Jarvis 7/10
Doyle 7/10
Keogh 6/10

Subs
Maierhofer 6/10
Surman 6/10
Dave Edwards 6/10

Our MOTM: Matty Jarvis - set up the goal and is always bright for us.