Liam Keen and Nathan Judah discuss the ups and the downs following the stunning 4-1 win over Fulham at Craven Cottage.
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00:00So shall we go with someone on the way up?
00:04Please do.
00:05Okay, let's go with the man of the moment.
00:07Let's go with probably the most arguably informed,
00:11not only the informed striker in the Premier League,
00:13but probably the most informed player in the Premier League.
00:17Superlatives always on the way up.
00:19And we talk about this guy
00:20because he is basically the man of the moment.
00:25He is the man who's producing goals,
00:27who's producing assists,
00:28who's getting points for Wolves,
00:30and he was sensational when Wolves needed him the most.
00:34And that is Brazilian international,
00:36Wolverhampton Wanderers forward,
00:38striker, and just all-round great guy, Mateus Cunha.
00:43There was no other way to start this show,
00:44was there, without Mateus Cunha?
00:47We spoke about it sort of in the game,
00:51and you're watching him
00:52and the impact he has on the way Wolves play,
00:54on the positions he takes up, some of the passes.
00:57I mean, obviously, in the assist for Joao Gomez,
00:59his goal is alongside his two strikes as well.
01:02And he's clearly in the form of his life.
01:03I mean, you look at the stats and the form he had.
01:06There's some good clubs, by the way,
01:07in Switzerland, in Germany, Atletico Madrid, in Spain.
01:12And he's nowhere near the numbers
01:15that he's putting up right now
01:16in the best league in the world,
01:18the most difficult league in the world.
01:22And he's hot as anything right now.
01:25There will be big clubs looking at him.
01:26Is he hot?
01:28Is he hot?
01:29There are big clubs looking at him.
01:30There have been for the last 12 months or so,
01:32since last season's form.
01:35And they will be continuing to look at him
01:37for this very reason.
01:38And I remember, I did my tweet
01:42after his second, Wolves' third.
01:44And the only way I could describe it was,
01:47he is just so, so good.
01:49And it was just so, it's just too easy for him.
01:52It was so effortless.
01:52There's a swagger.
01:53Yeah, exactly.
01:54Swagger's the right word.
01:55It's just so effortless,
01:56the way in which he plays,
01:58when he's confident,
02:00when he's clinical.
02:02Seven goals and three assists now
02:03in 12 Premier League games this season.
02:06He's been fantastic.
02:07The way he comes on to that third,
02:09his second, Wolves' third,
02:11just comes on to a small pass,
02:12which I'll go amazing,
02:12curls it top corner,
02:14just effortless and a fantastic player for Wolves.
02:17Apart from everything, they're doing well,
02:19alongside other players in this game in particular,
02:21but he is the talisman.
02:23And he's enjoying his football.
02:24I mean, look, when you're scoring goals,
02:25and of course you're going to be enjoying your football
02:27as a forward,
02:28you know, regardless of whether you're scoring,
02:32you're going to be enjoying it.
02:34You know, it's difficult when you're not scoring
02:35and your team's winning,
02:36because I feel like forwards,
02:38they need a little bit of confidence
02:40and they need to score goals.
02:41But he is, the way that he's creating chances,
02:43and like you say, that second goal,
02:45it's not even a thought, is it?
02:47At the back of mind,
02:47he knows where he's putting that ball.
02:49And we talk about Fulham's first goal,
02:51which was a great strike.
02:53That was the strike of the afternoon from Kunya.
02:55And he's, you know, he paid credit to Gary O'Neill.
02:59And you've got to give O'Neill credit as well,
03:01because he has transformed under O'Neill.
03:02You know, he's told him to get in the right places.
03:04He is a different strike than what we've seen previous.
03:06Yeah, he's playing in the right positions.
03:08I think the improvement in individuals
03:11under Gary O'Neill is evident,
03:12and there's none more so than Mateusz Kunya.
03:15We can sit here and reel off statistics,
03:18which, you know, easy for me to say,
03:20is obvious,
03:21because, you know, the goals are there in front of you.
03:23But the positions he takes up,
03:25the work he does off the ball,
03:26which is still improving,
03:28the relationship and understanding he has
03:31with the players around him.
03:32And that really was evident in his assist for Xao Gomez,
03:35which was Wolves' second goal,
03:37which really changed that game
03:38and changed that second half.
03:41It looks very simple to make that reverse pass.
03:44And I can promise you in the heat of the moment,
03:46that is not an easy pass to make.
03:48To have the eye to make that pass
03:50just to his left, almost out of vision,
03:53and make that reverse pass is a really intelligent play.
03:57And a player of his quality and his confidence
04:00is able to make those kind of plays.
04:02He's able to have the confidence
04:04to take a little bit of a risk.
04:05And obviously, it's a fantastic finish
04:07from Xao Gomez as well across the keeper.
04:08So look, it was a brilliant understanding
04:12as well as performance from him,
04:13a player of huge quality.