A mostly awful match to watch, but then it was a derby and derbies have often brought up such situations. Wolves with 19 fouls against them, and a red card to boot, demonstrated they are a team of spoiling tactics, with a couple of their players falling over like flies because of a knock or two.
The Villa, though, should have had the game wrapped up in the first 15 minutes. Initially, Wolves looked a bit nervous facing their local rivals who had scored six last time out, and McGinn really should have scored his 20th Villa goal today with two shots that were good but inaccurate.
So Wolves, having got through that period, must have thought they had a chance of winning, and very occasionally that workmanlike but scrappy team looked as though they could do that while spoiling Villa's chances of making progress with niggly fouls. That trip from behind just as Watkins was about to shoot near the end should have produced a penalty, but the referee wasn't interested. And there were other fouls that went unpenalised.
We should have won, but I'm grateful that Villa didn't lose this difficult match, unlike Man City last week.
The team looked a bit tired I thought, and now for a break for those not in international squads, and extra time for Ramsey and others to recover from their injuries. Then we go again.
Considering that we're without Ramsey, Buendia, Moreno and Mings, and Tielemans not yet coming up to scratch, we are not doing badly at all.
UTV!
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