Wolves v Burnley Match Preview

[Supersub6]

Do you have a direct line to the Office for National Statistics Supersub

Don't need it barrie, I use my 74 year old brain for everything that needs working out ---keeps me on my toes and happy!

[barrie_burn]

I'll be catching you up next month but I'm lucky if I know what day it is when I wake up

[kritichris]

I'm just grateful to wake up.

[sinkov]

I think that there is a misconception about Traore because I think that, in spite of his pace, he makes lots of wrong choices in his general play.
He has started just 2 games against us for Wolves and they drew one and lost the other.
He has come on as sub in 3 other games, one of which they won 1-0, another was a 1-1 draw and we beat them 2-1 in the other.
He also came on twice as a sub for Boro back in 2016 and 2017, noe match was a 0-0 draw and we won the other one 1-0.

Let's hope that he continues his run against us in the same vein, the one and only time he was in a winning side against us was September 2018.

I'm trying to remember an occasion when Traore has played against us and one of our defenders has taken the ball off him, maybe they have at some point, but I can't recall it. I like Traore, but he does make mistakes, he seems one of those players whose brain and feet are not well connected, but I like him simply on what he's done against us, which is cause mayhem.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

he seems one of those players whose brain and feet are not well connected". A perfect appraisal of my 5 year old grandson is that sinkov, when he sets off running his body goes one way and his feet go another!

[sinkov]

he seems one of those players whose brain and feet are not well connected". A perfect appraisal of my 5 year old grandson is that sinkov, when he sets off running his body goes one way and his feet go another!

There are quite a few like that imo BT. Chris Eagles was one, perhaps the best example is an ex-Burnley manager, someone regarded almost as a footballing god, Chris Waddle. Brilliant footballer, but he never convinced me he really knew what he was doing.

[Supersub6]

Our fans moan about quite a number of our players, however, compare the records of JBG, Dwight and Traore in the PL.

JBG has 114 appearances and scored 9 goals with 17 assists.
Dwight has 90 appearances and scored 7 goals with 14 assists.
Traore has 134 appearances and scored 6 goals with 14 assists ---mind you, knowing our luck, he will score a hat-trick today!

[sinkov]

Our fans moan about quite a number of our players, however, compare the records of JBG, Dwight and Traore in the PL.

JBG has 114 appearances and scored 9 goals with 17 assists.
Dwight has 90 appearances and scored 7 goals with 14 assists.
Traore has 134 appearances and scored 6 goals with 14 assists ---mind you, knowing our luck, he will score a hat-trick today!

That surprised me Sub, 134 PL appearances for Traore, yet I didn't think I'd seen that much of him. I think the answer is that he's spent a lot of time on the bench and he's only actually started 75 PL games, in his short career so far Dwight has already started more PL games, 85, 10 more than Traore. No doubt the reason for this is that Dwight has a football brain on him, Traore doesn't,

Just looking at his career I did find one thing out about Traore that I never knew, he's Spanish, I never knew his nationality, I always assumed he came from an African country, but he started at Barca, never knew that.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

There are quite a few like that imo BT. Chris Eagles was one, perhaps the best example is an ex-Burnley manager, someone regarded almost as a footballing god, Chris Waddle. Brilliant footballer, but he never convinced me he really knew what he was doing.

I saw a couple of little cameos from him when he was player/manager that convinced me he was a footie playing genius. His fondness for locally brewed beer and Burnley lasses undeniably sort of ruled him out for being a serious football club manager though sinkov.

[kritichris]

Only just found out we're live on the BBC. Will make a change from watching on my laptop.