The Keen & Judah Show: Are Wolves over-reliant on Matheus Cunha?

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Liam Keen and Nathan Judah take a deep dive into the good and bad as Wolves succumbed to a 3-1 loss at Villa Park.

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00:00do you want to go good and then bad up and then down i think so that makes sense all right sweet

00:05sweet let's go let's go for the good then first let's start off with a bit of a positive note

00:10and let's talk about the goal scorer and that is matthias cunha um look another decent performance

00:17from him i mean i say lead led the line he didn't lead the line jorgen strand larsen led the line

00:22but i feel like he is the leader in this team now at this moment in time he is the person with

00:27the quality the skill the ability to make something happen and really wolves is only

00:34in form attacker at this moment in time as well he is and we have said before and previously he

00:40is essential to this team and we're going to talk about the defense and talk about the issues in a

00:43minute but i tell you what we need matthias couldn't you fit because if wolves and when

00:48wolves are going to pick up points in this league he's got to be in that starting lineup

00:52absolutely and it can be spun into a negative couldn't it and we've spoken about it before to

00:57say wolves are very over-reliant at the moment on matthias couldn't you um and that is a concern

01:03however while he's fit while he's available while he's performing let's

01:07try and keep it all sunshine and rainbows for the for the moment with uh with matthias

01:11couldn't you play another big goal big goal on a big stage against big rival in a big game

01:19and he was big anymore i was trying to think of a few more throw in there but he was a big boy

01:26excuse you um after watershed it's fine he's a big player he's a big player massive um look he's

01:34he's so important to the way wolves play because whether he's playing as a 10 but he's playing on

01:39the right which he did briefly against uh against newcastle but he's playing on the left which was

01:43more where he was playing albeit in the system he does come inside as well um against against villa

01:50he performs and he scores goals and he gets assists and he brings wolves into games and yes

01:56it was a mistake obviously from diego carlos for villa to and the opportunity to kunya but

02:02he takes it excellently it's a brilliant finish and his overall performance even at times and

02:07wolves carried little attacking threat in the second half was very strong um he's one of those

02:12players that puts him south abouts puts his body on the line as well makes tackles gets involved

02:17um he's not one to to shirk the responsibility and i think all of that brings a um a player that's

02:23worth a lot towards both intrinsically in terms of how he plays but also financially um he's a

02:27massive asset towards if he was able to leave the club so the way that he's um the way that he's

02:32performing is an excellent sign um and even in that second half when wolves you know they for

02:3820 minutes or so they performed pretty well i thought in the second half where they defended

02:41well and villa struggled really for any momentum once that momentum did swing and bill obviously

02:46took control of the game and scored their goals um even at that point couldn't you was still trying

02:51to beat that out like well they're very little attacking threat but in that added time uh two

02:56one down then three one down he was still trying to make things happen still charging forward still

03:01creating chances he's one of um a few attacking players wolves have got who were right at the top

03:06of their game at the moment yeah gary neal said a couple of times that he's got an emotional group

03:12of players i feel like kunya is probably the most emotional of those players on the pitch at least

03:20does he tread a fine line though between showing his emotion pouring out and maybe going a little

03:25bit over the top i have to agree to be honest um he's a player interviewed a few times and i've

03:32always enjoyed speaking to him um always enjoyed watching him play there have been moments uh and

03:39there were moments towards the end of last season as well i think the frustration starts to creep in

03:44and he does let himself down a little bit at times he runs the risk of getting himself into

03:49into trouble he does throw his toys out the pram a little bit during games at times

03:54i think you can allow it to some degree because if a player is gonna score goals and and be a

04:01catalyst for every attack then sometimes it's a little bit of a luxury to say that yeah we can

04:06allow them to to be uh troublesome at times on the pitch and obviously he's not like that in the in

04:12the dressing room at all he's a very fondly thought of member of the group but he is a player that

04:16really does wear his heart on his sleeve and so far it's not particularly cost him there was a

04:21couple poor performances back in the last season that i felt he he got he got in the way of his

04:25own performance um it hasn't particularly cost him this season but my worry is that at some

04:31point it will do if he gets in his own head he starts to complain um and become distracted really

04:37from from the game plan and there's been plenty of times that gary neal has had to

04:42sort of get his attention um over the last 18 months or so and say just switch on stay focused

04:49remain on the game plan because he does tend to let his mind wander and get consumed by the game

04:55so no i think that's definitely a concern that you've got to got to keep an eye on

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