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00:00Hello, I'm Nathan Judo, I'm here with Wolves reporter, Mr Liam Keane, where has finished

00:14Wolverhampton Wanderers won, the mystery club, the mystery club, Burnley won, Burnley, yes

00:20it was, Wolves against Burnley this afternoon, and let's do the takeaways first, first of

00:25the team that started the game, Liam, pretty much I would say, the best available team

00:30to Vito Pereira, which was quite telling.

00:32Yeah, I think so, obviously we've got a couple of players that aren't here, Hugo Bueno and

00:36Rodrigo Gomez, so they can't be taken into account, and that's particularly evident with

00:41him playing left wing-back in this game, Bellegarde started left wing-back on this occasion, Bueno

00:46you would imagine would have played there had he been available, so otherwise, yeah, pretty

00:50much what we would expect to be the best available team, the team that's, you know, going to

00:56go into the season, bar signing some other players going back, of course, as well, so, and I thought

01:01actually intensity-wise, I thought he took another step up, I thought Wolves actually started

01:06very well in the game, got the goal, which I don't want to do it, am I going to take the

01:12question off you, I'll go straight into it, got a goal, beautiful cross from Keanu Hoover, again,

01:25another player who may or may not be here going forward, he's done a decent job overall, I think,

01:29I think that's fair, I think he's done pretty well, and it was Larsson with a very neat finish, sort of

01:35arriving near post in the far corner, and yeah, very nice goal, he only had a couple of small moments in

01:41that half, but Wolves overall did pretty well. That's where Vitor want Larsson, though, poaching

01:45in around that box, and maybe he didn't do enough of that last season, I thought it was a really nice,

01:48like I say, a nice finish. Yeah, he really was, and I think on Larsson in particular, he showed a

01:53little bit more devilment about him, I thought, recently, holding the ball up a bit better,

01:57I think he's a little bit more aggressive, so all of these things play into his and Wolves' advantage

02:02at the moment. Yeah, interesting on the goalkeeper situation, we didn't see Sam Johnston in the first

02:06game, but we saw him start today. We did, yeah, and I actually thought he did pretty well.

02:09Yeah, I thought he did well, claimed it strong. He came out and claimed a really dangerous cross

02:13at one point, put his body on the lines really well. Look, I know his season didn't go particularly

02:18well at Wolves, but he is an experienced guy, he knows what he's doing, he knows how to get

02:22through a pre-season, and I think overall, actually, in training and what we saw in this game,

02:27he's done pretty well. Totti Gomez, captain today. We see he's captain in the first half

02:32against Santa Clara, but Matt Doherty, captain in the second half, Matt Doherty went back to that right

02:37centre-back spot, so he started the game, so it's interesting to see between those two,

02:40and it was Totti who got the armband and actually played the full 90 minutes.

02:43He did, and apart from one small error, which didn't really lead to anything in the first

02:50half down in the far end, I thought he was excellent, to be honest with Totti, I really did.

02:56Again, it's pre-season, you don't want to go too dramatic on it, but he's very,

03:01very aggressive, he's very athletic, and obviously being the left footer, the balance of this team

03:06is really suited to having him in there. I thought he's done really well, and obviously for him to

03:12be captain and play the 90, which only a couple of players did play the 90, was potentially quite

03:18telling as well. I'm pleased for him, because he's come on quite a journey at Wolves, and

03:24yeah, he's looking at a really good play, so a good stride.

03:28You say Larson opened the scoring, could have been opened a few minutes earlier,

03:31it was very unlucky, Jean-Marie Bellegarde with a beautiful volley, gorgeous volley from distance

03:35inside of the post, and then straight into the keeper's hands.

03:38Yeah, I think it was a corner, wasn't it? It got cleared out into the edge of the box,

03:42volleys in the first time, I think it was his right foot, was it? I think it was,

03:46we're sort of sat right behind it as well, beautiful angle of it, and it looks clearly like it's going in,

03:52either side of the post, straight into the goalkeeper's hands, I think it just couldn't be

03:55any more unlucky, even just a nasty bounce off the keeper, he might get the goal still, but

03:59yeah, really unfortunate, but beautiful effort, yeah, would have been a great way to open the score.

04:03Just a word on Fir Lopez as well, like I said, caught the eye in the back end of that game against

04:06Santa Clara, and I thought there was some nice movement, coming deep to get the ball, wasn't he?

04:10But you can see visually, he knows where to thread the ball through. Some things didn't come off,

04:14a little bit, but I think physically, you look at him, and we'll look at him maybe when he did the

04:18interview, and he's quite a slight guy, but on the pitch he commands, he's got that more physical

04:21presence, you know, I think he's not going to be someone who's just going to be weights off the

04:24ball, I think he'll come into this and he'll hold his own. Yeah, for sure, and to start with a very

04:28small negative, something that I picked up on, I think he was holding onto the ball a bit too much

04:33at times, turning into danger a couple of times, but when he does open his body up, when he does turn

04:37into space, he's very intelligent, great vision, picked out a lovely pass, picked out one particularly

04:43really nice pass in the first half of Munezzi, and who, by the way, Munezzi I thought did pretty

04:48well actually in the front three, came into midfield in the second half and was a little bit quieter,

04:51thought in the front three, actually did pretty well today in the first half, but that ball through

04:55to him was beautiful, and he's able to pick that sort of moment of magic, there's little special

05:00moments that can unlock defences, look, he's still young, he's going to need a bit of time, but if he can

05:05adapt and get used to Premier League and start to do these in Premier League games, do these moves, have these

05:09moments with your passes, he can unlock things and open things up for dangerous forwards. Yeah, and

05:13just an interesting one, and one for I guess for the season, it'd be interesting to see if he does

05:17do that, but set pieces, especially corners, really good delivery as well from that left foot. Yeah,

05:22really good, so they were doing a lot of in-swinging corners, really good from Fairlopers on the

05:27right-hand side in-swing with his left foot, and actually Belegaard was taken on the other side,

05:30and put some fantastic corners, it's a really, really good one. It's nice that we can get past the first man, to be fair.

05:34Well, you took the words right over my mouth. Couldn't you in Sarabia either side, I mean Craig.

05:37We were used to watching it, and to be fair, even before that, I think Jermotinho was pinging them

05:43off the first man every time. But there were some really good ones, and in-swinging ones,

05:47right on top of the goalkeeper. None of them came off today, but it's really difficult for the

05:52goalkeeper to deal with, and you've got big guys like Agba and Larsson throwing their bodies at it,

05:55so Minetsi as well. So yeah, those hopefully can be an area the Wolves will improve on for next season,

06:01because we know that they've not scored anywhere near enough goals from set pieces or from defenders

06:05in the last few years. Well, they were changing the second half, but the majority of the players

06:08started the second half, apart from the goalkeeper Dan Bentley came in, but it was a bit more disjointed,

06:13as you'd expect. Yeah, as you'd expect. They played about 60, it was about the 62nd minute,

06:18I think it was, and then, yeah, a raft about eight or nine changes at that point, and yeah,

06:23it wasn't the most exciting second half, really. Burnley obviously got their goal, got their equaliser,

06:28Pedro Lima got beaten at the far post, and then sort of dropped into the box, and it was a finish.

06:35Otherwise, there wasn't really a lot to talk about in that second half, it was very much a training

06:38game, wasn't it? Which is, you know, the whole purpose of them being here at the moment, so yeah,

06:421-1 and not too much to take away from that second half, but yeah, Wolves' time in Portugal comes to

06:48end with a draw. Not too much to take away in that second half, a lot to take away from last night,

06:53Liam. What a great segue. Because we went back to the team hotel for the final time,

06:57and we got an exclusive interview with Mr Vito Pereira, who was on good form, you will know what,

07:02part of what he said, if you're watching this video later on this evening, or maybe you haven't,

07:07if you're watching it earlier, but he was very strong, very passionate, and it was an excellent

07:11interview, wasn't it? Really, really good, really, really good, and obviously it's important for us to

07:15talk about it on the podcast and videos, because there's only so much you can do to convey in the

07:20written word exactly what he was like. But his demeanor's very relaxed, very relaxed,

07:25he obviously wants signings, and he obviously wants players to come in. It's a perfect timing

07:31to get attacked while I'm trying to explain the most important part of the video.

07:34All your fans, all your fans. What is it, flies to what? That's poor, that's very poor.

07:40Yeah, obviously you want to try and convey exactly what he's like. Very relaxed, you know,

07:45you've gotten well with him and he's very easy to talk to, but equally, he knows what he wants.

07:49Yeah. But there's no, there's this sort of drama that's been made out of falling out,

07:55it's just not accurate. So the atmosphere has been very good, but he also is a manager that needs,

08:01needs is an important word, and wants more signings. So there'll be lots to come from this interview,

08:06and we're looking forward to putting it out. Absolutely we are. Our time in Portugal comes to a close,

08:11but we're back next week in sunny old England. Hopefully sunny. At Stoke on Saturday.

08:16Come on. It's a bit different. And yeah, there'll be plenty more content to come. And of course,

08:20that Vitor Pereira interview today, there'll be some more tomorrow, plenty on Monday,

08:24and all the way through next week. There's some really, really interesting things that he said to

08:27us from me from Keno. Have a good one. Take care.

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