Nottingham Forest 1 Wolves 1 - Liam Keen and Nathan Judah analysis
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00:00Hello, I'm Nathan Tudor, I'm here with Wolves reporter, here's Mr Liam Keane. Liam, Nottingham
00:13Forest won, Wolverhampton won, first point of the season, hanging on a little bit towards
00:18the end, you've got to say, but at least they've got the first point of the season.
00:22Yeah, I think we discussed it just up there a second ago, I feel like Wolves will probably
00:25be happier with that point than Forest will be, on the balance of the game, albeit, Forest
00:30didn't create a lot of clear cut chances, and the ones they did, obviously scored one,
00:33and Wolves managed to deal with the others. Sam Johnson made quite a good save from a
00:38wood header in that second half as well. So, yeah, I think Wolves will be slightly happier
00:42because they had to survive a bit of an onslaught. A couple of names to mention, Sameda, before
00:46he came off with cramp, did very, very well I thought, and Craig Dawson, who played the
00:4990 minutes today, was probably Wolves' best player, I thought he was excellent. And particularly
00:53in those last few minutes, you need someone with a bit of a presence, a leader, winning
00:58headers in the box, and when balls are coming in and it's tough and it's dogged, you need
01:02someone to step up, and I thought he did that.
01:04Yeah, look, we were wondering who the goalkeeper was going to be today to start the game, and
01:08it was Sam Johnson, and Forest scored early, and you've got to think that he'll be disappointed
01:13with his par in the goal, as will Totte.
01:15Yeah, the cross comes in, and of all players in the Forest team to leave three from a set
01:20piece, Chris Wood is the last one to leave three from a set piece.
01:24Surely, surely, that's the one person you have to mark, you know where he's going to
01:28be.
01:29Exactly, he goes in at the far post, Totte gets caught underneath it, tries to react,
01:33and he can do very little really to get anywhere near Chris Wood. The header itself is quite
01:38tame, considering the space and time that he did have, and to me it looks like it goes
01:46through Johnson a little bit. I think he would have seen it late, definitely, but I think
01:51he could have done better with it, so he'll be disappointed. However, I did feel he redeemed
01:54himself with a free-kick save from Morgan's White in the first half, that second save
01:59from Wood in the second half was really a big one. An overall decent enough debut for
02:05the goalkeeper who is sort of bedding in, a couple of errors with the ball at his feet
02:09but nothing too dramatic, so okay, steady enough.
02:13Three bookings in the first half, and really a referee who struggled to get control of
02:17the game. You felt that Matthias Cunha was probably bubbling under at that stage where
02:20he looked threatening, but at the same time you go into half-time, you think this could
02:24go either way. There was a big incident in that second half, wasn't there, where there
02:29was a handball, we all thought it was a handball, the referee, who I thought was poor throughout
02:33really for both sides, had the whistle in his mouth, was just about to blow, doesn't,
02:39VAR looks at it, doesn't get overturned, but I think we both think that if the referee
02:43gives that, and Gary O'Neill was absolutely furious that it wasn't given, they're not
02:48going to overturn it, that would have been a penalty for Walsh, and then could we talk
02:51to you about a very different result?
02:52Yeah, obviously with going into this season, they're trying to be more lenient when it
02:56comes to those situations, officiating and from a VAR standpoint, which I think is a
03:01good thing for the game. I think there were some silly ones last season that were given.
03:05However, last season there were some silly ones that weren't given that should have
03:08been. That to me...
03:10That was definitely given last season.
03:11That was definitely given last season, that one, and that to me, that's a penalty, I think.
03:14I know it's hit on the back of the elbow, but it's still changing the fly of the ball.
03:18It's more, I think it's more his hand, to be honest. As the ball's coming over his shoulder,
03:23Dawson's making the run on wood to try and get towards it, his hand comes out way to
03:27the side, way above him, catches him. I think it's flush on the hand, but I might be wrong,
03:31but it's certainly from a very obvious handball position. And you're right, Simon Hopo, whistle,
03:36looks...
03:37We're just about to blow you, let's see it.
03:39Literally doing this, looks this way, and puts the whistle down and runs as the game
03:43is playing on. Wolves go absolutely apoplectic, Gary O'Neill is losing it on the sidelines,
03:48he gets booked for his troubles.
03:49Second yellow card of the season for Gary O'Neill.
03:50Second yellow card of the season in three Premier League games, which is not ideal.
03:53No.
03:54I believe it's three...
03:55Trying to keep up with Giselle Gomez.
03:56Yeah. I believe it's three for a touchline ban.
03:59So what, he's got 30... 35 games.
04:03To me, it's one of those, if you're following Wolves, you think it's a penalty, if you're
04:09following Forrest, you probably think it's not, but I think it's a penalty.
04:12At the same time, look, the last 15, 20 minutes was a little bit hairy scary, 10 minutes of
04:16injury time as well. And in the midfield, I felt they lost the battle, they lost a little
04:20bit of their shape, you know, Mario Lamine and Giselle Gomez, I don't think have got
04:23into their stride yet this season. Tommy Durrell came in, helped things up a lot, we saw Andre
04:28make his debut as well.
04:29I thought Andre actually did relatively well, coming on in the 85th minute, so he had, with
04:3310 minutes of added time, surprisingly had 15 minutes of football to play.
04:36And I actually thought he broke up the game quite well at the time when Wolves really
04:39needed it.
04:40So I think he did OK.
04:41I agree with you, Doyle coming off the bench was probably Wolves' best midfielder, and
04:45he came on, what, the 59th was it, I think it was?
04:4859th, yeah.
04:49Probably Wolves' best midfielder of the day.
04:50Giselle Gomez doesn't look up to speed at the moment, I think he's struggling a little
04:54bit.
04:55He seems to be just a step off it, behind the pace of the game.
04:59Mario Lamine is working his socks off.
05:01I thought he actually did quite well first half, but same as he did against Chelsea,
05:05he did it again today.
05:07He's charging beyond the play, he's getting so far forward at times, the Wolves are leaving
05:12such massive gaps, so open in midfield.
05:14He did it again today, and there was a couple of times Wolves got lucky when forwards were
05:17breaking forward.
05:18That's my biggest concern, and he was absolutely out on his feet at the end, because he's putting
05:21so much effort in.
05:22I do think there needs to be slightly more discipline.
05:25Totti Gomez left back today, and Ryan Aitonori left wing, what do you make of that?
05:30Aitonori was definitely better, definitely more involved in the game, had a decent enough
05:34game from an attacking standpoint.
05:36Totti had a difficult first half in some respects.
05:40Less glaring errors, but just looks fragile at the moment.
05:44Looks like there's an error coming, looks like there's going to be a misplaced pass,
05:48something going wrong.
05:49I think he was better second half.
05:51He didn't have an impact on Wolves, aside from the goal itself.
05:56Didn't have an impact on Wolves potentially losing the game, but I don't think he was
06:00necessarily helping Wolves get over the line at the same time, if that makes sense.
06:04He's not quite in form at the moment, and I think he's a very good footballer, but he's
06:07just not quite there.
06:08Jürgen Strömmel didn't really get into the game today, did he?
06:11Disappointed with him really, because he just looked very isolated.
06:15It wasn't even necessarily the physical battle, because he just held his own in that regard.
06:20He just went through the motions, just could not get into the game.
06:24A couple of times the ball came into him, didn't hold it up well enough.
06:27A couple of times it came into his feet, and very heavy touches, losing the ball too easily.
06:33Just a little bit off the pace.
06:35Jürgen Strömmel, Daniel Pedentz not in the squad today, and we fully expect them not
06:38to be Wolves players come the start of next week.
06:41Pedentz for certain, unless anything last minute goes wrong, but that will go through.
06:46About £5 million, £5 million, roughly, that will be.
06:51Jose Sarr is one that is creeping closer to a Saudi move with their window closed on Monday.
06:56Wasn't involved today.
06:59I believe he made himself unavailable with injury, whether that is accurate.
07:05We'll speak to Gary O'Neill afterwards.
07:09We don't expect Jose Sarr to be here.
07:12We expect it to be Johnson, Bentley and King.
07:15We'll see what happens between now and Monday.
07:17The good news is Wolves are off the mark.
07:19Nottingham Price 1, Wolves 1, post-match reaction.
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