please log in to view this image WOLVES v WATFORD please log in to view this image Venue: Molineux Date: 7th February 2015 Time: 15.00 GMT please log in to view this image The clear link between the two teams is the man above, Kenny Jackett. A skillful left-footed player, able to play in defence or midfield, Jackett was capped 31 times for Wales, for whom he was eligible through his Welsh-born father. He spent his entire playing career at Watford before his career was ended by injury at the age of 28. The Wolves boss supported the Hornets as a boy and went to matches at Vicarage Road with his father. This week he has been talking about his ties to Watford. The 53-year-old insisted his emotional connection with the club would be dismissed when the two teams meet at Molineux. Jacket said: “I always look out for Watford’s results because it’s my hometown club – my mother still lives there. “But on Saturday we could be playing anyone really because I’m wanting to win, wanting to do well for Wolves and wanting to do well for myself. “Looking at our position in the league we really do need a big push and keep in there and keep sticking with these top sides as long as we possibly can. “The opposition really – whether it’s my hometown club or not – becomes irrelevant. I don’t think there’s any sentiment. Watford were poor in December’s 1-0 home defeat and their record at Molineux is poor with just one win from 16 visits. Ten of these have finished all square but seeing as the Hornets haven’t drawn for 21 league games since October what are the chances of it happening in this game? The Hornets are the top scorers in the Championship but may find it hard keeping out a Wolves side that have netted eight goals in their last two home matches. Team News: Wolves expect to name an unchanged squad despite losing 2-1 to Bournemouth on Tuesday. Keeper Carl Ikeme and winger Tommy Rowe are out with a broken metatarsal. Captain Sam Ricketts has struggled to break into the squad and is helping boss Kenny Jackett with coaching. Watford defender Joel Ekstrand and top-scorer Odion Ighalo (both hamstring) will undergo tests. Hornets midfielder Sean Murray is out with a knee injury. 1 Middlesbrough 35 29 66 2 Derby 35 29 65 3 Watford 35 28 65 4 Bournemouth 35 31 63 5 Norwich 35 28 62 6 Brentford 35 12 61 7 Ipswich 35 17 60 8 Wolves 35 6 57 Wherever You Are In The World, Enjoy The Game
Over 2000 Travelling 'Orns going to this - enough noise to bring home the points I reckon. please log in to view this image
I've predicted a Wolves win on the grounds that my predictions are so often wrong that we ought to win!
Tough one today - but a draw might be ok. Currently, however, it's in our own hands! As long as it stays in our own handes the better! COYH
If we score three unanswered goals in first 10 minutes then can enjoy though I fear we will be up with blood pressures of 180/110 plus and it'll be a tight one..
Gomes; Paredes, Angella, Cathcart, Hoban; Guedioura, Watson, Tozser; Abdi; Deeney, Vydra. subs: Bond (GK), Munari, Layun, Forestieri, Pudil, Anya, Motta.
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Kuszczak; Doherty, Batth, Stearman, Hause; McDonald, Price, van La Parra, Henry, Sako; Afobe. Subs: McCarey (GK), Golbourne, Edwards, Doyle, Ebanks-Landell, Jacobs, Dicko
Each gamw seems more important and more stressful than the previous one. It's going to be like this for the rest of the season. Yesterday's victory for Bournemouth has added to my nervousness about this one. If we were comfortably mid table I wouldn't be waking at 3.30 in the morning worrying that I had missed the start of today's game
