Wolves: Lage’s defender call has backfired

Bruno Lage made the daring name throughout the summer season to not signal one other centre-back, which has now come again to hang-out Wolves after Nathan Collins’ sending-off towards Manchester Metropolis.

Conor Coady, Romain Saiss and Willy Boly all left Molineux throughout the switch window, with solely Collins arriving as a alternative, which was maybe all the time prone to depart the Outdated Gold brief on the again.

Whereas Collins and Max Kilman have proven that they could be a sturdy partnership in Wolves’ early Premier League video games, with three clean sheets in complete, there’s a critical lack of depth at centre-back.

The membership missed out on West Ham‘s Craig Dawson on switch deadline day, whereas additionally they turned down the chance to signal Jason Denayer on a free switch, which can must be revisited after Collins’ horror deal with.

The Republic of Eire worldwide was proven a straight pink for a excessive problem on Jack Grealish, which can see him miss upcoming Premier League video games towards West Ham, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest.

Ought to Wolves have signed one other defender?

Provided that Wolves have received simply one among their opening Premier League video games, it’s a large blow for Lage to be with out his predominant centre-back partnership for these fixtures, notably with robust video games to come back.

Within the 3-0 defeat towards Manchester Metropolis, Lage opted to deploy Ruben Neves at centre-back following Collins’ sending off, which maybe emphasises that he doesn’t utterly belief both Yerson Mosquera or Toti to come back in.

Mosquera has only one substitute look within the Carabao Cup to his title, whereas Toti has performed solely 4 Premier League video games, so neither are supreme replacements for Collins within the upcoming fixtures.

Whereas it’s only three video games on this state of affairs, an harm to Collins or Kilman may very well be a critical fear for Lage as a result of lack of Premier League expertise at his disposal, which means that his daring determination to not signal one other centre-back throughout the summer season has already backfired.