Southampton v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wednesday, 23rd August 2017
Match Report
IBO Reporter : channonite
The record books will show that Wolves won this game with goals from Batth (67 minutes) and Wilson (87 minutes), but that doesn't begin to show how utterly abject Saints were. No fight, little skill and more than a little dis-interest. Which would not necessarily have been so bad, but for the fact that this was the competition that Saints did so well at last year, coming within a few minutes of glory at Wembley.
I got the distinct feeling that nobody on the Saints side had any interest whatsoever in this match. Yes, Mauricio Pellegrino did try some different things, but none of it began to address the fundamental flaws in the team - namely the forwards feeding off scraps and Forster being left without any meaningful cover from his defenders.
Frankly this was yet another example of a Saints match where they could not be bothered and in turn, I cannot be bothered to report on it.
Southampton
44 Forster
5 Stephens
35 Bednarek (Redmond 73')
3 Yoshida
26 Pied
14 Romeu - Booked 45'
16 Ward-Prowse
38 McQueen
11 Tadić
10 Austin - Booked 26' (Long 76')
19 Boufal (Gabbiadini 76')
Substitutes
2 Soares
7 Long
8 Davis
13 McCarthy
20 Gabbiadini
21 Bertrand
22 Redmond
Wolves
31 Norris
5 Bennett
6 Batth
32 Deslandes
11 Graham
4 Edwards
19 Price
29 Vinagre
12 Marshall - Booked 45' (Ronan 45')
9 Dicko (Zyro 74' - Booked 75')
7 Cavaleiro (Wilson 86')
Substitutes
13 Burgoyne
14 Zyro
20 Ronan
34 Goncalves
35 Wilson
36 Johnson
37 Armstrong
EFL Cup - 2nd Round
Southampton 0
Wolves 2
- Batth 67'
- Wilson 87'
Referee : James Linington
Attendance : 17,931
Possession
Southampton 58%
Wolves 42%
Shots
Southampton 12
Wolves 8
Shots on Target
Southampton 2
Wolves 3
Corners
Southampton 6
Wolves 5
Fouls
Southampton 13
Wolves 9