Wolves gave all they had last Saturday, but with their attacking resources in particular pruned harshly by injuries, they were – literally in several cases – hamstrung. Their breathtaking rise and fall in the final minutes demonstrated both the squad’s extraordinary powers of motivation, and the natural limits of those powers.
Gary O’Neil noted in September that the team he had inherited was “loose within their structure”. He explained: “They like to go one-v-one and try tricks and try to find their own way through. The game shouldn’t be that complicated. We should be able to play through the structure