Shropshire Star

Liam Keen analysis: Wolves' selection mistakes, on-field errors and a disastrous defeat

A week can be a long time in football.

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From a jubilant, ruthless and clinical 4-1 win at Fulham to a mistake-ridden, calamitous display against Bournemouth, Wolves' frailties were on show for all to see.

Gary O'Neil got his team selection spot on last week and was deservedly given praise in these pages for doing so.

This week he got it badly wrong and his starting XI error was exacerbated by an erratic side full of mistakes.

When directly asked by the Express & Star whether he got his team selection wrong, O'Neil admitted it was hard to make changes after the performance at Fulham, but then conceded he would have taken a different approach in hindsight.

O'Neil has done plenty right at Wolves, and made some mistakes, but on this occasion he got it wrong.

Mario Lemina was fantastic at centre-back last time, but with Craig Dawson back available it seemed like the obvious choice to bring him back in.

Despite the selection error, those players are the ones that cross the white line and they certainly did not carry out the game plan.

Wolves had worked on stopping and dealing with the long ball from Marcos Senesi in training, yet they conceded a penalty after 57 seconds from a ball from the very same player.