Wolverhampton Wanderers suffered a 2-0 defeat to Arsenal on Saturday evening, ending their eight-game unbeaten run in the Premier League, and Joao Moutinho was one of many players who underperformed. The 33-year-old’s distribution from set pieces was criticised and he was eventually hooked by Nuno Espirito Santo late in the game, so it’s not just fans who didn’t rate his contribution.
He’s been poor since we came back for me. Dendonker and neves against sheff Utd
— Daniel Grinsell (@DanielGrinsell) July 5, 2020
He's been down on form for a while now corners and his free kicks been very poor
— wayne mckie (@satsomboon) July 5, 2020
Goatinho hasn’t looked so great this year- do you think Nuno may be overprotecting Joao with more 3-5-2 than he’d like to use? Not time to sound the age alarm but I don’t see a prospective 3-4-3 midfield partner for Neves in the squad and a suitable replacement for Joao, £50m?
— FluLikeSymptoms (@btownley) July 5, 2020
I wouldn’t say his worst performance he’s done …just a bit off along with other players and too many of them just didn’t have that edge today but 6th place and 5 games to go can’t complain too much
— Georgia Palomba (@georgiadoors) July 4, 2020
Goatinho was not good, no time to panic but it’s a reminder that a replacement will cost either a lot of money or a lot of time and if we make CL we don’t have time
— FluLikeSymptoms (@btownley) July 4, 2020
Didn’t have his eye in today. Not just him though, we weren’t at the races as a team.
— Nick Allen (@NickAllen224) July 4, 2020
Yeah annoyingly and unfortunately but he was awful at times today
— Ash (@ahyden95) July 4, 2020
Against Arsenal, Moutinho played for 88 minutes, had 58 touches, completed 97.9% of his 48 passes, created three chances, whipped in four crosses without finding a teammate, attempted five long balls with 100% accuracy, made one tackle, won one free-kick and made one interception.
The £7.2m-rated midfielder joined Wolves from AS Monaco in 2018 and has gone on to make 94 appearances in all competitions, scoring two goals with 21 assists. Moutinho has made 50 appearances across the board this season and may need taking out of the spotlight ahead of Wednesday’s meeting with Sheffield United.
Nuno isn’t blessed with a lot of depth in the engine room, however, so a change in personnel could mean a change of system. Time will tell. Moutinho turns 34 in September, so he can’t stay a regular forever.
It’s about time these glory hunters were kicked out of our club, three wins and one defeat out of four matches and these jackasses are moaning, jog on back up the baggies parasites.
For gods sake he wasn’t good on Saturday along with 9 others.All the outfield players were rubbish ,only Patricio had a reasonable game but to pick on Moutinho after week after week he,s pretty consistent.Call yourselves Wolves supporters I,m ashamed of you
They ain’t Wolves fans, probably football fans, other than that just a bunch of glory hunters, after every match win or lose they have to have a go at someone, even Nuno has had it off them!