Wolves v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[ChicagoLion]

Playing with 10 men with Watkins was bad enough, but then to bring Bailey on beggars belief.
Emery has had time to get more from the players available but has somehow decided to press the self destruct button,
We look like a bottom of the league team and just got done by the bottom of the league team.
Pathetic.

[Chris Harte]

Lee Hendrie highlighting Barkley for their first goal. Onana half hearted jog back also deserved mention.

Barkley had just come on.

Unpopular opinion - we didn't deserve to lose that. Sure, we didn't deserve to win it either. A Villa win would have been an absolute travesty, infact.

[PeterWithesShin]

You have been too generous with those ratings PWS.

I didn't want to be too harsh.

[manic-road]

That's Wolves SECOND win of the season FFS.

[brontebilly]

I know Lindelof is not a game changer as such, but with such injuries as we have to key players, wouldn't you turn to this bloke's obvious quality and experience, especially when he has shown he's in excellent form? I just don't get why he has been totally ignored over recent weeks.

I'd have him next to Konsa, been saying it for weeks. Torres was shite again tonight.

[ChicagoLion]

That's the first time I think Emery's decisions have ever made me angry.

Luiz was arguably our best (well, least bad) player, yet he gets withdrawn and Buendia - already on a yellow card - stays on.

I think that single decision lost us the game.

I dunno. Leaving Watkins on for 70+ minutes.

[Stu]

Similar to that awful display at Wolves in January last year. A 2-0 defeat, when they scored their second goal in stoppage time. Interesting that Malen and Guessand are both scoring goals for their clubs.....! A stupid decision with that starting line-up.

Another thing - our recruitment is largely rubbish, which doesn’t bode well given we need to replace some players in the next couple of seasons.

[Beard82]

It’s just the fact that after dougie missed that chance I knew we would lose that. 

So many players look fucking stupid tonight.  Onana - wants to go to one of the biggest club in world.  And he bottles it trying to be the biggest club in the midlands.

Watkins looks shot - why he starts over Tammy fuck knows. Bailey could make any team worse in his current form.

Beundia - if his first 5 touches aren’t good he needs to be taken off cos he doesn’t turn it round. 

Need four points from Chelsea and Utd otherwise we’ll do well to get europa

[Goldie.7]

We've won 3 league matches in 2026 and it's almost March. It's really only two convincing wins though because of the Brighton own goal 3 points.

If Emery starts Digne and Watkins on Wednesday expect another loss because we won't be scoring.

[Legion]

Utter pants.

[tomd2103]

Wolves were awful, yet the fact that they turned us over like that just shows how bad we were.  I actually can't quite believe how bad we were in that game.  There were some performances there that were simply unacceptable.

That debacle tonight brings to an end a run of 5 games which always looked season defining (Everton, Brentford, Leeds at home, Bournemouth and Wolves away).  To get 5 points out of 15 from those fixtures could be really damaging. 

[brontebilly]

That's the first time I think Emery's decisions have ever made me angry.

Luiz was arguably our best (well, least bad) player, yet he gets withdrawn and Buendia - already on a yellow card - stays on.

I think that single decision lost us the game.

I dunno. Leaving Watkins on for 70+ minutes.

Putting Tammy on, leaving Ollie on and going two up top. I don't like it but ok. It finally got Rogers into the game on the left. But then take Ollie off a bit later to bring Alysson on and put Rogers back into the middle again. That's just bonkers stuff. Take Bailey off again

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I would not back us to beat anyone we are so poor. One of the worse things to happen is Bailey coming back off loan.

Worst was allowing Malen to leave. A simple "Not until the summer" would have been enough.  Instead we have nothing up front. Nothing.

Tammy has shown what he can do in the brief glimpses he’s been on yet Watkins still starts. Although Malen was a great option.

[KevinGage]

That's the first time I think Emery's decisions have ever made me angry.

Luiz was arguably our best (well, least bad) player, yet he gets withdrawn and Buendia - already on a yellow card - stays on.

I think that single decision lost us the game.

I love Lil' Emi. But he was hopeless tonight (more than the rest of them, even) and needed to be hooked.

[Nev]

I had a bad feeling about this game. Every club has a bogey team and ours is the Wolfs at their place.

I was in the pub with a load of lads going to the game earlier and predicted a loss, but predicted a win against Chelsea.

My confidence is not so strong after that performance mind.