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00:00Hello I'm Nathan Judo, I'm here with, not wolves reporter, wolves reporter, but wolves

00:13reporter for the day, Mr George Bennet, no Liam Keen today, so it was a nice change to

00:18be honest George. What did you make of Vito Pereira? Yeah, I was really impressed, quite

00:24a vibrant character, cracking a few jokes, interesting personality. He is, yeah, look,

00:31end of the day they need to get results, that's the most important thing, Bournemouth away,

00:35difficult, 5th place Bournemouth as well, it's going to be a tough tough game and it's

00:40going to get even tougher because they've lost their big boy at the back haven't they,

00:44in terms of a man you like, Badou, missing probably, we're estimating 3-4 weeks but he's

00:49going to miss multiple games, that's a big blow for wolves. Yeah exactly that, he's been

00:54emerged as a key player since his winter arrival so a big blow at the back and Vito

01:02Pereira was very backing though of his potential replacements, probably Santiago Buenos is

01:09going to be exactly that and it's confident that they can cope without him and fill the

01:14void that he will clearly leave, but yeah, clearly it's a blow. Yeah, it's a big blow,

01:21he's been superb, obviously had a difficult game against Liverpool, but yeah, as you said

01:24there, Santiago Bueno and a lot of people and a lot of fans think that Nacer Ziga will

01:29go straight into that starting line-up, look, he could do, but, and he needs everybody to

01:34be ready, I think Pereira was very, was stressed that everybody needs to be ready if they're

01:40needed, but it will be Santiago Bueno who gets that slot, he came on and did pretty

01:45well against Liverpool in that second half at Anfield, at the same time there are issues

01:51elsewhere as well, no Rodrigo Gomez. Yeah, exactly that, but in terms of sort of the

01:58potential striking options, we've obviously got Jorgen Strand, Larsson, which will be

02:03a major plus, but you know, we were speaking about ourselves with the sort of nature of

02:07the injury, will he be brought in straight from the start, that's kind of the question

02:14mark around who will lead the line as well. Yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it, because

02:19you look at Jorgen Strand, Larsson, another hamstring injury this season, but missed the

02:24last three games, was in that defeat against Arsenal once he injured it, but great to have

02:30him back in the starting 11, hopefully, sooner rather than later, but yeah, you think it's

02:35going to come across maybe a little bit too soon and we're probably going to see him from

02:38the bench, which begs the question, who's going to play up front? We saw Guedes and

02:41Sarabia support, Mateus Cunha, they got hauled off at half-time, we saw Manezzi come on along

02:47with Jean-Ric Nabalegard, he was asked, wasn't he, Vito Pereira, about Manezzi and potentially

02:53playing as a striker, what did he have to say on that? Yeah, exactly that, it has been

02:58suggested really that in terms of the sort of advance role he's playing, that he was

03:02kind of being used as a makeshift striker and yeah, he basically kind of rebuffed those

03:08claims and said he's an eight, he sees him as a box-to-box and maybe the way in which

03:12he sort of operates in such attacking positions, it can seem like that, but you know, in his

03:18mind he's clearly operating as a centre midfielder. Yeah, and then you say, right, okay, if Jorgen

03:24Strand-Larsen doesn't play, if Manezzi's not going to play, who's going to come in, who's

03:28going to play in that ten role, or that nine role even? Mateus Cunha is obviously starting,

03:35Sarabia, I'm not too sure whether he's going to get the start, but he did say that he's

03:38going to keep faith with some of his plays, he's going to back some of his plays, so I

03:42actually think that we might see Manezzi come in into a midfield three and that Gonzalo

03:47Guedes will probably get the nod alongside Mateus Cunha, but there's plenty of options

03:51he could go down. Yeah, exactly that, you talked about sort of competition for places

03:58and you know, I think one thing as well that I was sort of very impressed with and I think

04:03you sort of came out with a similar tone and rhetoric before the game against Anfield

04:10is kind of this sort of fearlessness as well, just trying to sort of instil in, you know,

04:14Bournemouth maybe fifth place and vying for a Champions League spot, but we're Wolves

04:19and you know, we're confident that... Got to think about themselves. Yeah, exactly that,

04:27and you know, you sort of might talk about that first half performance and Pereira was

04:35sort of critical and frustrated about that at Liverpool, but then you look at that second

04:40half display and it just shows that the fearlessness that he's instilled in these players. Yeah,

04:47you know, he commented, Pereira saying that we sat back too much, if we sat back again

04:50on Saturday then we're going to leave ourselves open and susceptible to goals and potential

04:54penalties, he wants them to go forward, he wants them to press. Yeah, exactly that, he

04:59mentioned that many a times and when he was talking about Santiago Bueno, he sort of mentioned

05:05if there's players that are fearful and step back then, you know, clearly it's going to

05:11upset the balance of the team and that's what he wants is for them to be front foot, for

05:15them to be pressing, exactly that. Yeah, look, I mean, Bournemouth have got so many good

05:19players haven't they? Clijvers, Semenya, Rotorua, it's amazing, like fantastic, so it's going

05:24to be a difficult game. In terms of the formation, I'll have a little bit of guess, Kino's not

05:29here this week of course, so I think there will be two changes from the side that got

05:33beat at Anfield. Hoja Sarengal will go right to left at the back, back five, Nelson Samedo,

05:40Matt Doherty, I think as we discussed, Santiago Bueno will replace Emmanuel Agbidu, Totti

05:45Goan's on the left and then of course Ryan Atnuri left wing back. When they say a midfield

05:49three though, and he has talked about it, he has talked about it a couple of weeks ago

05:52that he is considering a three now. Andre Jaume Gomez is your two and I think that

05:57we might see the Premier League debut from the start of Martial Manezzi, I think Pablo

06:02Sarabia goes to one side and I think we see Mateus Cunha and Guedes up front. It's going

06:07to be an interesting one. George, first timer here, please give me your prediction of the

06:11score. There's a lot of people watching so don't spoil it, don't spoil your good work.

06:15You put me on the spot there haven't you? I feel... Don't mess it up. I'm going to say

06:211-1. 1-1, ok we'll take 1-1. I went 1-0 on the podcast, but I'm not going to say who

06:27too. Big one, Ollie Westbury is there with me tomorrow because Keno's on a stag do. For

06:33all the build up on this one make sure you look on to expressandstar.com

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