Wolverhampton Wanderers suffered 1-0 defeat to Sheffield United on Wednesday evening, their second loss in as many games, and the defence came in for criticism from supporters. Willy Boly was called out by fans for his abject showing and Romain Saiss was mentioned too. The 30-year-old wasn’t accurate with his distribution and struggled to keep the Blades at bay.
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I genuinely don’t remember the last time we were comfortable (score line wise) in a league match. We never hammer anyone. Ever. We make EVERYTHING hard work. Saiss is a liability. And yes I would have sent this if we’d have won or drawn that #wwfc
— Stuart Newman (@SJNstuartnewman) July 8, 2020
Boly has been very poor since the return, and I’m afraid Saiss is just average ! The players have been going 12 months and as Nuno doesn’t seem to trust other players I think unfortunately the season has caught up with us, energy levels and enthusiasm seen low atm !
— Jay 111 (@JayWilkes34) July 9, 2020
2. Can take you. Yes Diogo jota, romain saiss, Matt Doherty have all been excellent for Wolves but I also look them and I think they shouldn’t be regular starters in a team that is gonna finish in the top 4 they need to be coming off bench and playing back up this where for me
— Matty (@Matt123525) July 8, 2020
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Saiss completely kills the left side . Slows everything right down #wwfc
— Mitch Davis (@mitchdavis_1) July 8, 2020
Against Sheff Utd, Saiss played for 90 minutes, had 86 touches, won six aerial duels, completed 74% of his 73 passes, whipped in one cross which didn’t find a teammate, made two tackles, attempted 13 long balls with only 23% accuracy, made six clearances, gave away one foul and made three interceptions.
The Moroccan international joined Wolves from SCO Angers for £3.6m in 2016 and has gone on to make 139 appearances in all competitions, scoring nine goals with three assists. Saiss has been a regular this season, playing in 44 games across the board, but it remains to be seen if he keeps his place in 2020/21.
Wolves are on the hunt for another centre-back and have been linked with Kristoffer Ajer, Gabriel Magalhaes, Christian Luyindama, Ousseynou Ba, Tosin Adarabioyo, Ruben Dias, Diego Llorente, Nicolas N’Koulou, Robin Koch, so Saiss could be on the chopping block. His deal is up in 2021 and may not be renewed.
Criticism is being thrown in the wrong direction when it’s aimed at defenders. We have only conceded 4 goals in total over the last 7 games. Most teams would love to have a record as good as that.
But we have only scored 4 in those 7 games and have failed to score in half of the last 10 league games. That’s a much bigger problem
Why don’t these glory hunters jog on back to the baggies, every match win, lose or draw they single out players for their bile Wolves fans they definitely ain’t, Mitch Davis, James Taylor, Matty, James111, Stewart Newman, Like you know as much about the wolves as I do about flying a rocket to Mars and you know even less about football, just a bunch of glory hunting parasites, jog onto beachy head.
Sais is in the barrel this week,who will it be next week because these so called supporters need a weekly scapegoat.Sheffield Utd did their homework as did Arsenal ie pack the midfield and man mark the wingbacks when we have ball so that we can only pass sideways out of defence.In this senario you have to go direct with the forwards making runs upfront and Rubin and Connor picking out those runs like Rubin did in the championship but we haven’t seen for a while.Just my opinion.