Well, if ever a player has come back from the dead of a career, it’s George Ndah.
At the start of the season he was on his way out of the club, a bit of a joke amongst the fans, but no other club was interested apart from a loan move to Tranmere, which he didn’t fancy.
Now, he is one of the few Wolves players to have his own song!
We might be forgiven for being a bit blasé about his goal strikes but he added another fabulous strike to his collection yesterday at Deepdale.
Picking up the ball in his own half, with no support he ran and ran at the Preston defence, they backed off. Several defenders were gathered round him by the time he got to the edge of the box. He then dinked the ball back across the defenders, and the keeper into the net. Craig Brown states it was deflected but who cares!
It opened up a pretty scrappy game, which Wolves always looked comfortable in winning from that point onwards.
However, it could have been so different after a terrible opening.
Preston could have been two up after five minutes.
First Wolves over committed from a set piece and left Naylor one-on-one with the Preston forward. Naylor was easily out muscled but with only Murray to beat, Creswell thankfully fired wide.
Just minutes later, Naylor playing suicidal football, was again at fault when allowing a cross from the right which Koumantarakis headed wide when unchallenged.
The defence had lost its shape and again the midfield formation of playing no orthodox right-sided player was causing more problems than it solved.
Both teams created very little for the remainder of the half. Miller and Ndah often broke only to find absolutely no support from the midfield.
When Cameron went off injured I was hopeful that Jones would put Proudlock on the right to give more balance, instead he opted for Mr. Attack himself, Keith Andrews.
Half-Time 0-0.
After George’s wonder goal in the 53rd minute the play seemed to really open up and there were huge gaps all over the pitch.
Kennedy was enjoying taking the mickey out of the Preston right-sided players but there was always going to be the need for a second to make sure.
Wolves, as ever, facing no pressure from the opposition started to cause their own problems. Slack ball retention and no real outlets for pressure gave Preston hope even though they lacked the quality to capitalise.
Fortunately, Proudlock came off the bench to replace Rae and give us some balance. When Wolves broke, Andrews controlled the ball on the edge of the area, slid it through to Proudlock who crossed for Miller to finish from 6-yards.
Game over.
Preston could have had a consolation goal in the last minute when they hit the inside of the post but it was not to be so 2-0 to the lads.
Overall it wasn’t an impressive performance.
We gave the ball away far too often and far too cheaply. Cameron got into some great positions in the first half but no one gave him the pass. Naylor was awful in the first half.
Irwin played well to hold two right-sided positions together and was assured when defending.
Ince did pull out of his tackles but eventually got the booking that means he misses the Southampton cup-tie.
Ndah and Miller worked their socks off with very little support and showed how movement wins games.
Now we have 3 home games on the spin against teams just outside the play-off positions. If we can win at least 2 and draw one then we are once again in pole position.
Come on the Wolves!
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