I think the majority of Wolves fans would have taken a point before kick off, but there was a real sense as the game wore on that misfiring Liverpool were there for the taking.
Mick finally saw sense and removed Ebanks Blake from the firing line and switched to a 4-5-1 formation. Whether this formation switch was because Mick genuinely felt it would stifle Liverpool’s creativity or if it was because he has little faith in any other front man at the club apart from Kevin Doyle, who knows.
But Liverpool’s approach was that negative that they needed no help from Wolves to suffocate their game.
There was barely anything of note in a drab first half apart from some freshly painted dug-outs in Sporting Bet blue and Pepe Reina’s magnificent welcome from the South Bank.
In the 2nd half, some of Wolves play will have given the fans some renewed hope that survival could be ours. And if we play the 4-5-1 against lesser teams and pose a little bit more penetration, perhaps playing a genuine right winger instead of shoe-horning Kevin Foley in there, then Mick could have found a winning formation.
It was a fantastic team effort, although Kevin Doyle deserves the plaudits for a man of the match performance. I think Mick may be stretching it when he said after the game, “If anybody’s ever seen a better performance from a centre-forward at Molineux then I’d like to see it.”
Because worryingly we’ve now gone 400 Premiership minutes without scoring, so I think we all know what area of the pitch the club needs to address. Let’s just hope we don’t hear Stuart Hall bellow, “Here come the Belgians!” Surely we can cast the net a bit wider this time?
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