Wolverhampton Wanderers: Wolves look to bounce back after Fulham defeat

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00:00 Starting with Wolves, Charlie, they were on the end of his defeat away at Craven Cottage.

00:05 3-2, a couple of penalties and once again Gary O'Neill not happy with some refereeing and VAR decisions.

00:12 What's your take on it?

00:14 I think they've been absolutely robbed once again, to be honest with you.

00:18 It's actually a surprise that it's taken this long for Gary O'Neill to say, listen, I don't want VAR anymore.

00:23 He was quite for it actually, just saying that a lot of it had been going against them,

00:27 but now he wants to get rid of it or at least make some major changes

00:31 because the amount of decisions that have gone against them this season is ludicrous.

00:34 Just thinking about it against Man United, when Onana collides with Kulajic and Dawson,

00:40 that should have been a penalty late on that old trap that they deserved to win that game.

00:44 Away at Luton, Sheffield United, at Holmston Newcastle, so many penalties given against them actually

00:50 and now against Fulham, again penalties and the lack of red cards and a lack of overturns.

00:55 It's actually not a case of VAR shouldn't exist here, it's a case of it needs to be used better

01:01 because a lot of it is just original refereeing decisions, but VAR refusing to overturn them.

01:07 There were some awful decisions in that game at Fulham.

01:09 I think the first one in particular, the penalty when Samedo actually gets the ball off Tom Kearney,

01:15 barely touches his man, Kearney goes down, they give the penalty and they fail to overturn it

01:20 and immediately after the game the referees are admitting that's a poor decision.

01:23 Tim Ream should get a second yellow for conceding his penalty and then Carlos Vinicius is headbutted

01:28 the player and not got sent off, they're saying it was a soft headbutt.

01:32 Danny, is there such thing as a soft headbutt? Is this another subjectivity thing now?

01:37 Oh, it was only soft, it's a headbutt, you're telling kids you can headbutt someone and get a yellow card.

01:42 I think it's absolutely ludicrous.

01:45 Going back to Alan Pardew in 2014, that was relatively soft,

01:50 but he was still banned from the touchline for a few games.

01:53 So, yeah, I don't think there's such thing as a soft headbutt.

01:56 I mean, yes, in terms of the motion of the head, but we're not going to get into all of that,

02:01 but if a player puts his head to another player with that sort of motion,

02:05 I think regardless it should be a sending off.

02:09 And so, just looking at Wolves next game, they face Arsenal.

02:13 Of course, the last time they faced the North London team it went very well for them,

02:16 especially the last few minutes.

02:18 Again, Wolves, can they look to turn things around at home?

02:24 I think this one is tricky, obviously, with Arsenal top of the league now.

02:30 At home, Wolves are very good at beating these top sides, it's just away from them.

02:35 They struggle a bit no matter who they play against.

02:37 This one is at the Emirates, so I think O'Neill's team maybe got that against them,

02:41 but they are playing better against the sides in the top half.

02:44 It's better when teams come at Wolves, they get to play out a little bit more

02:47 and utilise the transition.

02:50 So, I think they'll actually be better in that game than they were against Fulham.

02:53 They look decent against Fulham, don't get me wrong,

02:55 but the fair result probably being a draw or a win for Fulham,

02:58 based on the whole process of the game, ignoring VAR and refereeing.

03:02 This one, as I say, they can get out a bit more and attack well,

03:06 because they are very good at creating chances, Wolves.

03:08 Missing Pedro Neto at the moment, but still got some quality players.

03:11 Their squad is very good and I think, yeah, they could actually surprise Arsenal with this one.

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