May 19, 2024
https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2021/01/16/johnstone-absent-for-west-brom-after-positive-covid-19-test-as-wolves-revert-to-back-three/

West Brom goalkeeper Sam Johnstone (₤ 4.5 m) misses out on the Baggies’ very first DGW19 component following a favorable Covid-19 test.

Ahead of the Black Nation derby at Molineux, Sam Allardyce described:

Covid has actually stayed out Sam [Johnstone] and Matt Phillips for us, in addition to a couple of other Under-23s that would most likely have actually remained in the team.

Grady [Diangana] pulled or modified a hamstring, so we needed to make a modification there.

Asked by BT Sport what he has actually been attempting to repair in training, Allardyce reacted:

I have actually attempted to repair the reality that we have actually got to stop yielding objectives that are preventable. Our concentration levels often lapse, in split seconds and minutes. It just takes the opposition a couple of seconds to make use of that. That is the focus when we run out ownership.

In ownership, it’s truly about attempting to get more quality in the last 3rd. Produce more possibilities in open play, which has actually been exceptionally challenging for us.

Wolves manager Nuno, speaking in his pre-match interview on Friday, stated of his side’s current leaking display screens:

” We (have) made huge errors, particularly in defence. We should be compact and from there can grow positives. “We need to go back to our primary structure; a tidy sheet.”

The Portuguese supervisor has actually appropriately gone back to a tried-and-tested back 3. Nuno revealed in the embargoed area of his media offering that Willy Boly (₤ 5.4 m) would begin for West Brom’s see.

Boly is signed up with by Conor Coady (₤ 4.9 m) and Romain Saiss (₤ 5.1 m), while the Wolves teamsheet recommends that Pedro Neto (₤ 6.0 m) will run at left wing-back.

The winger was a doubt for this afternoon’s kick-off, as was Adama Traoré (₤ 6.1 m). The latter likewise begins the match in a front 2 together with Fabio Silva ( ₤ 5.2 m).

” Adama didn’t play the last video game, he had an issue. He is much better, so he is prepared to go. Boly had an injury for some while and [now] he’s excellent.”– Nuno

Daniel Podence (₤ 5.4 m) stays sidelined, together with Jonny (₤ 5.4 m) and Marcal ( ₤ 4.8 m).

” Let’s see. We have Adama and Boly coming and signing up with (training). Let’s see how they are for tomorrow. We still have Daniel out. We have work to do. Jonny, Podence, Marcal are out.”– Nuno speaking on Friday

Wolves XI: Patricio; Saiss, Coady, Boly; Neto, Neves, Dendoncker, Semedo; Moutinho; Fabio Silva, A Traoré.

West Bromwich Albion XI: Button; Gibbs, Bartley, Ajayi, O’Shea; Snodgrass, Livermore, Sawyers; Grosicki, C Robinson, M Pereira.