The Keen & Judah Show: Did Leicester deserve their penalty against Wolves? Liam Keen's thoughts

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Jonny Drury joins Liam Keen to chat about Wolves' latest success; a 3-0 win against newly-relegated Leicester means that Wolves have now won six games in a row in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1970.

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00:00like you say there, a routine Premier League win,

00:02seen miles away just two or three months ago.

00:06And it shows the job that Vitor Pereira has kind of done.

00:10And it maybe shows the difference in certain individual players.

00:15Obviously, we'll come on to that now and talk about the individual players.

00:18But one is, you could arguably say it's Jose Sarr,

00:20someone earlier in the season who we thought arguably

00:23maybe might not play for Wolves.

00:24I know he's linked with the move away last year

00:26with Sam Johnston coming into the club.

00:28But the way he's stepped up and just the impact that he's made,

00:33you know, other players, it's usually forward players, isn't it,

00:36that grab the headlines.

00:37But for him to do what he's done, you know, and have his say in this

00:41just shows how much of a team effort it is at the moment

00:43for Wolves in this incredible run.

00:46Yeah, definitely.

00:47And to be honest, I was kind of tempted to,

00:49I don't know if this is unprecedented or if we have done this

00:51on the show before, I was tempted to do six up and zero down this week.

00:55But I thought let's be a little bit more objective.

00:58Let's have a couple of downs in there.

01:00We've got four Rubs and Jose Sarr is one of them.

01:03And maybe a surprise that we start with him.

01:05But I wanted to start with him really for the reasons you've just said,

01:08but also to get a very quick dig in about VAR.

01:11Before I talk about Jose Sarr, for me, that's never a penalty.

01:16In the press box, it was almost unanimous with my colleagues,

01:19chatting to them there, a lot of fans responding

01:21that were all watching replays.

01:23It took, I saw one very quick replay, spent 20 seconds looking at it,

01:27if that, and I, in my opinion, it's all subjective, of course,

01:31but in my opinion, I thought it was very clearly not a penalty.

01:34Vardy with a very, very intelligent, Vardy running behind the defence

01:37and a lovely pass to find him.

01:39Darkham's charging out.

01:41He's going to make a mistake if he makes contact with him,

01:44but he slides in, doesn't make any contact with Vardy at all.

01:47Vardy jumped over him and throws his leg into him and goes down.

01:50It looked very clearly like it wasn't a penalty.

01:52So for VAR, by the way, for the referee to give that,

01:56I've got no complaints.

01:57In real time, it looked like a penalty,

01:58but for VAR not to overturn it, I think is really quite poor.

02:03That's a quick dig because we were talking off air before we started.

02:07Neither of us fans of VAR,

02:08and I've been very, very consistent on that.

02:10But fortunately, justice was served.

02:12Jose Sarr makes a fantastic save.

02:15Dante's right, strong save.

02:16Not the best penalty in the world, but certainly not a terrible one.

02:20And the goalkeeper makes a really, really strong save.

02:22And justice, as I say, was served for a penalty

02:24that I didn't think should have been that at all.

02:26But look, he's come back into the team.

02:27He didn't play against United, getting that back injury.

02:31And it's a difficult decision, really, for Bentley not to keep his place

02:34because he's done relatively well.

02:35But Sarr's the number one.

02:36Vito Pereira, I think, deserves credit probably for sticking by his guns,

02:40sticking by his number one, keeping him in the team.

02:43And the goalkeeper, look, he didn't have a lot to do,

02:45but he makes the penalty save.

02:46He commands his box well.

02:48He gives the Vardy a little bit of stick after making the save as well,

02:51which Wolves fans appreciate.

02:52And Sarr, who has had a very, as you mentioned there,

02:55interesting season with ups and downs,

02:59a lot more ups since Vito's come in than earlier in the season.

03:03It was a good moment for him.

03:04And I meant Wolves retained under the clean sheet,

03:07which has been one of the saving graces under Vito Pereira

03:10since he arrived in December.

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