Chapter 1: What were the key moments in the Wolves vs Manchester City match?
For Ruben Neves. Moutinho.
That's inviting and it's in! Willy Bally got the final touch! That's what Gündoğan looks to do when he's powered home. Aymeric Laporte, the man to level it up for Manchester City. Wolves 1, Manchester City 1.
Delight for Wolves as they hold the Premier League champions to a one-all draw here at Molineux this afternoon. And Manchester City, well, ahead in pretty much all the statistics apart from the one that counts here at Molineux. 18 attempts, six of them on target, 71% possession and 39 touches in the opposition box. They've only got one goal, though, in this.
We'll get the thoughts later on of Gideon Lescott, Mick McCarthy and Jamie Carragher. But delight for Wolves and for the Wolves players We can hear now from club captain Connor Cody and from the man with the assist for Willy Bolli's goal, Joao Moutinho, there with Greg Whelan. Connor, Joao, very well done indeed.
Connor, how does that feel, going toe-to-toe with Manchester City and getting a point?
Oh, it was good, it was good, that's what we've got to do in this division, we've got to play like that, we've got to play well, they're a fantastic side, they really are, they move the ball fantastically well, but we stuck to what we wanted to do, we want to show that we can play, and we've done that today, and we had a few chances as well, so I think our draw was a fair result in the end, really.
Gerard, did you feel you might even have won it there right at the end? Sorry? Did you feel that you might have even won the game, you had chances right at the end?
Yeah, we have chances, but Manchester City have chances too, but I think we play very well as a team with confidence. That's the most important. We put all together and do a great job today. I think it's a good result. Maybe we can score one or two more, but City have a very good team and they have opportunities too.
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Chapter 2: How did Wolves manage to hold Manchester City to a draw?
What was your game plan today? What was your approach in taking on this City's team?
Our plan is to do what we do in the week. All the days we train so hard, 100% to play against big teams, and Manchester City is a big team, very good players, and be ourselves. I think that's what's happened here today. We'll be ourselves and do a great job today.
Thank you. Connor, there was a touch of good fortune about your goal, replay showed that Willy Bolly clearly handled it on the way in, but when you look back, was it no more than you deserved?
Yeah, I didn't know that, to be honest, I was back on the halfway line.
No, I think it was, like I said, we had enough chances to score in the game itself as well, and I thought we deserved the goal in the end, no matter how it went in, we'll have to have a little look back at it, but it's a goal, and like I said, I think it was a fair result in the end, but I thought we were fantastic, we stuck to what we wanted to do and come away with a good point.
How hard was it out there, coming up against their quality up front?
They're a fantastic team, they won the Premier League last year, they're a huge football club, probably one of the best football clubs in the world right now, and we've had a go against them, that's what we wanted to do, we wanted to show how we play, we stick to the same game plan, everything's from our shoot, we like to be organised and in shape as much as possible, and we stuck to that today, which was very pleasing, and I thought we built on last week a little bit, we were good against Leicester, but it was disappointing not to win, so to get the point today is even better.
Joel, just what does this performance, this result, tell people about how competitive Wolves can be in this league this season?
I think in all the three games we showed that we can compete, we can play, we can win, whatever the team comes here or we go away. That's our team, we play 100% all the games and we can win.
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Chapter 3: What were the statistics that highlighted City's dominance despite the draw?
We know we can win every game.
Fine result, fine performance. Well done, guys.
Thank you very much.
Fine result, fine performance. Not one that's going to manage expectations, though, is it, Julian?
No, they can take a lot of pride from that performance, never mind the result. Obviously, Nuno gave them a game plan and implemented it in every way possible. And as Martinho said, they could have scored more goals, but overall, probably a fair result.
They did hold Manchester City last season in the EFL Cup, but a different group of players. Was this almost a more impressive performance, Mick?
Well, I thought they got away with it early on because they hit the post and the keeper made a magnificent save and we all know that would change it completely. And for all the good football played by both teams, it's two restarts. It's a free kick and a corner that they get goals from. It's the importance of good delivery, good movement.
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Chapter 4: What did Connor Cody say about the team's performance against City?
We spoke about man marking or zonal marking and I think the zonal marking let them down for the goal from the corner. And I thought it was poor marking from the free kick. So for all the great football, it's two restarts that's got the goals.
What did you make of the home-sized performance, Jamie?
I thought they were brilliant and what I feared for them at half time was at the position Sterling and Silva were taking up and naturally against Man City you drop deeper you can't get out of your box but they kept trying to keep the team coming back kept pushing up and really I think for a lot of teams probably going forward against Man City I'm not saying that's the exact template you have to
copy, but you don't want to be inside your box, do you, permanently throughout the 19 minutes. And what they did, Connor Corey, marshalling that back three and just getting it up the pitch, but also making sure there was no spaces between the players, four silver, four sterling, to cause them problems.
Well, the first goal came from a corner, as Mick said. We know it was handball in the end, but before we get to that part of it, what happened in the build-up, Jamie?
Well, I just thought it was clever. It looks like something that he'd worked on. You see Nevers on the edge of the box, it's Moutinho on the ball. So you think City are fine there, but he sort of just catches them out with the short corner. They're not expecting it, and Raheem Stalen finds himself 2v1. really, so it's difficult to get out on time, but you still need that quality delivery there.
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Chapter 5: How did the players feel about the chances they had during the match?
Yes, we know it's handball, we were looking at offside holes, so it shouldn't be a goal, we know it's handball, but the actual set-up and the delivery, it's difficult to make, isn't it, when the ball comes in like that?
It is, but that's my point with the zonal marking, I think that just let it down, when they've all tried to squeeze up, and the Wolves players have come out with them, and as the ball's coming in, they're on the move, they're coming forward, yeah, it's handball, but it was a great delivery, and they've attacked it. I think Bolly just... He knows, he's just waiting for the whistle, isn't he?
I think he knows he's on board. It was similar to that one where I threw you on the floor and I was waiting for the whistle. He had a little luck, didn't he? He has a little luck, but it's a little bit of luck that he got.
You can see the thought process as he's lying on the floor at the end of this. It's clearly handball. There is potentially a question mark over whether or not it's offside as well.
He has a peak here. He was outstanding all day for me. He was probably the man of the match, so he needed to have that bit of luck in the end.
Yeah, it was a little bit of luck, but why was he so impressive, do you think?
He made numerous blucks, put his body on the line. There's a couple in the first half where I think he got back when, obviously, I think it was Sergio Aguirre's four-run goal and Raheem Sterling. They're quick players, so to showcase your pace and get back and make them tough is vitally important.
And as much as Jamie said it was clearly something that they'd worked on, that short corner from which they scored, will they be disappointed to concede from a set-piece?
Yeah, definitely. I think if you look at it, it's a zone of marking, but they're in the same line, which I'm sure Jamie's better at explaining this than me. When Liverpool used to do that, there was two rows, so you couldn't just run straight onto the back line, and obviously, momentum's got it.
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Chapter 6: What did the analysts say about the importance of set pieces in this match?
You mark zonally, yes. But I think Bollie's backed off. If he stands in his position, I think he heads it. But he's backed off with everybody else and then Laporte has run into that zone. He's nicked his space. He's got above and he's no chance when he's on the move then. It's a great header. But listen, we're talking about both goals coming from set pieces. Both fantastic deliveries. Exactly.
You've got three defenders and maybe you don't know how difficult it is to defend that when the delivery's right.
And is it particularly hard because you've got Laporte coming in with a run on him?
It is, and that's always the sort of thing that you talk about, zonal marking or man marking. He comes from so deep. I think every team, you've managed teams, set teams up, everyone does zonal from a wide free kick and always in that one line. It's typical when someone comes that far, do you go and put someone on, stand with them? Do you think you should go higher up?
I don't think there are too many in the zone. In a line, I thought they should have had two of them at least in front of that, that you can block the runners at least, and then the lads who are in the zonal marking can go and attack it. But, you know, you don't do it and you get done, you get beat.
Yeah, a problem with the application rather than the system itself.
And two defenders score for all those wonderful footballers on the field. Two blockheads like us score.
Well, let's hear from another defender now. Kyle Walker came into the side today. He's been talking to Greg Whelan. Carl, disappointed not to have won this, or a fair result overall?
I think we created a lot of chances to probably put more than one past them, but they were a well-organised team. I think it's going to be very difficult for teams to come here. A lot of teams are going to drop points here.
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Chapter 7: How are Wolves expected to perform in upcoming matches?
I think they're going to come here and turn up and win, so full credit to them and deserve the point.
At half-time, having had a good half, having dominated for spells in the first half, how did you see a way to win the game then?
No, I mean, they're well organised. They've got five at the back. It's always going to be difficult to break people down. And, you know, they've got bodies in and around, you know, key areas where we want to get, you know, exploit the space. But we've got players that we can hurt. You know, I mean, Raz has hit the crossbar, Sergio's hit the post, you know, Sergio's hit the crossbar at the end.
So we've had enough chances, but I feel we need to be a little bit more ruthless in net. But also us as defenders, we need to take responsibility on the second phase of free kicks.
Did you feel they had a touch of good fortune about their goal? The ball clearly went in off Willy Boddy's arm in the end.
Yes, I've heard that, but it's hard for the referees to see everything. It was a goal that was given and we just had to get the equaliser, which we did, and we could have nicked it at the end.
You made a great start to this campaign, haven't you? Does this result today just serve as a reminder of just how tough this season could be for everyone again?
No, we know it's going to be tough. Obviously, what we achieved last season was incredible to reach 300 points. Winning the Premier League was a fantastic achievement, but we're not settling on that. We need to go again. The players in there know the manager expects and demands so much of us, so we need to dust ourselves down again.
We've got a week's preparation before the next game, and then hopefully we can get the three points at home. Kyle, appreciate your time. Thank you.
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Chapter 8: What insights did Pep Guardiola provide after the game?
But Liverpool have sort of similar problems when you see City's front players, midfield players, they're not the biggest in the world, but it's actually getting the set pieces, getting the ball up the pitch.
and actually getting a corner or getting a free kick that's the problem you don't have much of the ball and when you get it you've got to be composed with it and that's what wolves did well today i think especially in the first half when they did break maybe lack something around the box in the finish but they were composed and maybe that comes from the two central midfield players you're saying before the game maybe not the most ideal partnership but they sit there they compose they never panic and it gives them opportunity to get up the pitch against man city
Karl Walker says that the Manchester City players already knew it was going to be difficult this season. You wouldn't expect him to say any different. But will this sort of give them that reminder that there are no easy games?
Well, it can only be reminded by the fact that the stat that was given before, and whoever's won back-to-back,
titles it's a long time it doesn't happen too often and each and every team will be trying that little bit harder I don't think they'll all do like Wolves did today though go and press them and up the pitch and try to keep the ball themselves although we said when we saw the stat was it 63% or something it was a ridiculous stat that Manchester City had the ball it didn't look like that I don't think it looked like that because they weren't camped on the edge of Wolves box all the time they were pressing up the pitch and a lot of the passes were just at the back four and trying to excuse me trying to progress so a good performance by
By Wolves.
How does it feel going into a season as defending champions? How does it feel different from the season before, the title-winning season?
Yeah, you kind of just get on with it. You kind of discard what's happened last season. But there's going to be new philosophies. Obviously, most of the teams played against Man City last season didn't work what they tried in their approach. So this season, they're going to come with different approaches. So it's totally new for Manchester City as well. But yeah, great credit to Wolves today.
And the crowd was celebrating from quite early on in the second half. They were singing. They were making sure that the players got to hear how much they were enjoying their team drawing with Man City. But they made it very tense for them at the end, didn't they, the City players?
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