VERDICT: Fans bemoan 'typical Wolves' after Wigan defeat

Rob Cartwright

What's your verdict on the match? How typical of Wolves! We play the team bottom in the league and lose - and Adam Le Fondre becomes the fourth ex-player to score against us this season already.

Bodvarsson was missed just as much as we feared. His absence impacted on the whole shape of the team. Gladon is not an effective back-up...the sooner Dicko returns the better.

Byrne and Le Fondre were running the show in the first half. I thought I was watching Messi and Saurez the amount of time and space we were allowing them. Wolves' midfielders were slow and predictable.

Apart from a spell just before half time, we were second best throughout. Although Wigan rarely threatened, Batth was at fault for both goals.

Walter made his usual timely subs, but to no avail as those coming on made little impact in a very poor second half performance.

Grigg didn't need to be "on fire", when he held off a weak challenge from Batth to give them their second league win of the season.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Costa was the standout player for me, being the only one to use the ball and his pace to good effect. Silvio and Saiss also had decent games. No-one else though.

Batth was awful. I was disappointed with both Cavaleiro and Teixeira.

However I'm pleased to report the Wigan pies were as good as usual, making the journey worthwhile!

Russ Cockburn

What's your verdict on the match? If ever a game summed up Wolves then last night was it. In fact, it was so Wolves that we should actually trademark it and sell it to the Chinese...oh sorry we've pretty much already done that.

Buoyed by two impressive league results and performances, hopes were high heading up to a Wigan side bottom of the league and low in confidence. There was also that inevitable nagging doubt in the back of your mind that this is a game we're bound to lose...it's just the Wolves way.

But not this time, no this time things are different. Well maybe not.

We started very sloppily and had the ultimate embarrassment of Adam Le Fondre scoring past us...thriving on exactly the type of ball we failed to play to him for most of his spell with us.

The rest of the first half was disjointed, with the midfield never really getting to grips with the game. Occasionally, Costa would break forward at pace and Tex would do something worth writing about. Cavaleiro up top was cutting a very isolated figure and we were desperately missing the presence of our Icelandic prince.

However, out of nowhere we were level. Silvio worked tirelessly to win the ball, before linking up with our £7m 'wonderkid' to set up a tidy finish from Prince, who a minute earlier could have been guilty of giving away a penalty.

So 1-1 at half-time and the general feeling was 'we've got out jail, now to put them to the sword'.

That confidence never really transmitted itself to the players, who basically failed to turn up in an attacking sense in the second-half.

You'd think after buying 12 players in the summer we'd never have to see George Saville or Dave Edwards out wide again wouldn't you?

I'm a fan of changing the system mid-game, but I get the feeling Zenga is too quick to move things around and by the end of the second half the players looked like they didn't have a clue who was playing where.

As for the final kick in the proverbials...you have to look at your two centre-backs for that one. Big lump up field, Iorfa let him go first and then Batth got too easily muscled out of it for me.

To be fair to the two of them they've been really good the past two games, so just hoping it's a minor blip.

Norwich is going to be a tough test, make no bones about it. However, it would be just like Wolves to bounce back with a good performance and take three points.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? We desperately missed Bodvarsson. He's our focal point and makes the system work, bringing in our other creative players and occupying the opposition centre-backs.

His tireless running down the channels also creates spaces for others to exploit, something I don't think Cavaleiro quite mastered last night.

This brings me on to Gladon. Armed with £1m and a trip to Holland, I think I would have come back with some great memories of the red light district or a quality herbal product - the latter probably offering a better resale value than our striker will.

I'm trying not to judge him after three games, but I've seen more movement off the man on the horse in Queen Square. Struggling to see how he fits the Zenga system at the moment, just hope one goal might bring him to life.

Silvio was another who failed to take his chance in the first team, looking very much off the pace, poor on the ball and losing his man on numerous occasions.

As James Batham said in the car home, 'he must have been working on reception at Atletico Madrid, there's no chance he was near the football squad'.

Russ Evers (Hatherton Wolves)

What's your verdict on the match? Oh dear. The exact worries that Walter Zenga talked about came home to roost.

We were slow, lethargic, less committed, second to nearly every ball and the half time team talk must have been less inspiring than the pre-match one.

The team selection was plain wrong as against a bottom of the league team (who looked and played like one) we were hoping for two up front with pace on the wings.

Unfortunately we played with no one up front with the wingers tucked in. Yes it's a rollercoaster ride but we really should be not just beating teams like this but putting them to the sword.

A very, very poor performance that gave scant reward to the decent sized following who have spent yet more hard earned cash.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Cavaleiro did not even get a pass and Gladon added muscle but nothing else at all.

Some of the passing was below Sunday league level especially from Saiss who had a shocker.

Peter Abbott (London Wolves)

What's your verdict on the match? On leaving the DW Stadium I certainly heard worse language than my overall thoughts of "disappointing".

It was broadly the same team, but so different to the weekend. One big omission, the injured Bodvarsson, however it's never as simple as that.

It didn't help we had the very early setback of the Le Fondre tap in...scripted or what?

Unfortunately we don't have an obvious centre forward ourselves, Jon Dadi or otherwise. Instead we have a large crop of - new to us - highly skilled players from all over Europe and it's taking time to gel and gain consistency.

In my view, we look good individually but certainly not collectively and that has to improve quickly.

Did we deserve a draw or not to lose? It's a definite work in progress, and will be for some time judging on that performance.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Cavaleiro was out of sorts as a makeshift forward. Costa was more consistent than Saturday's hero, Teixeira.

Edwards and Prince again featured highly in almost everything we touched. However Silvio was so full of mistakes and Gladon didn't look as thought he would make his mark after coming on a sub.

My man of the match was Danny Batth - defensively sound and close to scoring early in the second half.