By Daily Sports on November 11, 2019
Wolverhampton Wanderers shrugged off their midweek Europa League exertions to comfortably beat Aston Villa 2-1 in Sunday’s Midlands derby with goals by Ruben Neves and Raul Jimenez.
After a slow start to the season, and despite already playing 24 games, Wolves are gathering momentum and a comfortable win lifted them to eighth in the Premier League.
Nuno Espirito Santo’s side are unbeaten in the league since September 14 and enter the international break in high spirits.
“I’m happy with the performance. We played really good. When you produce so many good things, you want more (goals),” he said. “We always have a threat on the break.”
Villa, on the other hand, remain one place above the bottom three after a difficult afternoon that began when they had to replace injured keeper Jed Steer to injury after five minutes.
With first-choice keeper Tom Heaton missing it meant a debut for Orjan Nyland in the heat of a local derby.
Wolves dominated and the only surprise was it took them until nearly halftime to go ahead.
Villa's defence switched off from a free kick and Joao Moutinho pulled the ball back for the unmarked Neves to power an unstoppable shot inside the right-hand post.
Another injury for Villa led to left back Matt Targett being replaced before the interval but the visitors showed more endeavour after the break to at least stay in the game. (SuperSport)
•PHOTO: Wolves players
Source Daily Sports
Posted November 11, 2019
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