VERDICT: Fans worried after another Wolves defeat

Rob Cartwright

What's your verdict on the match? Well it's not quite a crisis, in my mind, but it's looking like a bleak winter ahead. Recent fortunes are hard to fathom, as I really don't believe we have been that bad. Yes we've had poor spells during games, but we've also had good spells.

Two things have been consistent - the lack of firepower in front of goal and the individual errors that inevitably lead to the opposition scoring.

I had no issues with the starting XI picked. I even like 4-4-2 and with Dicko paired with Bodvarsson - why not? To be fair the defence coped reasonably well throughout, but as Doherty role-played something more at home on The Wreck on a Sunday morning, I just knew, agonisingly that the ball was destined for our net.

Leeds lived up to their popular name and more surprisingly went down rather easily themselves when challenged. That said, a very efficient away performance from them.

Wolves were lively. Showed good skill with decent passages of play; just with no end product. Plenty of tackles going in with chances created. However, our shots on target ratio was dismal again.

Costa missed 'a sitter' on 90 minutes to just about sum up our day.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Dicko with Bodvarsson was not effective. Let's hope that was more the service they received than the players themselves. I thought both Costa and Teixeira were good in parts without the real consistency we need.

My man of the match was Saiss who was composed throughout and, with quality distribution, uses the ball very well.

I don't think we are far away from things clicking. We should stick with Walter. He deserves at least until the New Year and the top six will be a reasonable achievement. Don't forget how bad things were when he took over!

Heather Large

What's your verdict on the match? Well we thoroughly deserved that result.

Missed chances, an inability to keep hold of the ball and a starting XI who looked like they were playing together for the first time made for a woeful and uninspiring performance.

Zenga has got to find a way of getting his players working together to optimise the individual talent in the team that we've all seen flashes of so far this season. He needs to pick his best side and stick to it.

I'm loath to start picking on Batth but as captain he should also be helping to pull his side together. But I saw no signs of that against Leeds, most of time there appeared to be very little communication on the pitch.

We all know that Dicko can score goals but he can't do it alone. He needs good service from midfield which he just wasn't getting yesterday. We gave Leeds so much space yet we were so tightly marked making it more difficult for Bodvarsson and Dicko to break away.

All in all a very disappointing and frustrating afternoon at Molineux.

But saying that I don't think it's time to panic yet. I certainly not jumping on the 'Zenga out' bandwagon. I just can't see what getting rid of him at this stage of the season would achieve.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Edwards and Costa were probably the stand out players for me.

The latter has so much energy and flair, there's absolutely no way that we've seen everything he has to offer. Doherty has definitely had better games.

Russ Cockburn

What's your verdict on the match? I've said from the start I'm not sure the 'Zenga' experiment will work, but up until yesterday there were at least signs of promise.

Yesterday there was very little to make you feel that we are about to turn the corner and transform decent spells into points.

The table doesn't lie and at the moment it looks as painful as being stung by a Jellyfish. Worse still, eight points from a possible 30 is relegation form and no matter how much his fans dress it up, a similar haul over the next ten games will see us languishing in the bottom three.

Blackburn away has now become an absolutely massive game. Lose and I fear that will be the end of the Italian job and Zenga's brief love affair with the old gold and black.

I'd argue he probably needs a little more time to prove he has what it takes, but I'm not sure Fosun will hold that belief. You're not going to get many viewers in Shanghai and Beijing tuning in to watch Danny Batth up front against Preston or Dave Edwards running around the pitch directing air traffic control for Birmingham Airport.

So can he turn it around? Answers on a postcard. Yesterday he reverted to 4-4-2, which I think a few of us wanted to take a look at.

The big problem here is that you don't play Dave Edwards in a middle two. A lot of people said he was our best player yesterday and that tells you everything you need to know about the performance. One minute in the second half he received the ball with nobody on him and instead of turning and driving forward he played it back to the defender who quickly lost it only for Super Dave to chase it down and kick it out of play.

We're all fond of the Welsh midfielder and like I've said before he'd be a great bloke to have a beer with. However, 10 years of Dave Edwards...you get less for manslaughter!

A 4-4-2 also needs strikers that are on top of their game. Bodvarsson has been in good form this season, but is looking less likely to score by the match and Dicko is not the player we know and love. To be expected, he's looking rusty and I think the challenge first half got into his head.

I'm sure we'll revert back to 4-5-1 at Blackburn and that's when we need the likes of Teixiera, Costa and Cavaleiro to start delivering more than just the odd flashes of brilliance. I'd be tempted to go Saiss and Coady as holding midfielders, bring Tex behind Bodvarsson and have Costa and Cav on either wing.

The other bugbear with Zenga is his attempts to get back into the game when trailing. I'm all for making changes (something Jackett often did too late), but yesterday I'm sure Ola John and Cavaleiro were playing on the same wing at certain stages and, as @darb1983 said, you might as well stick a bath up front than have his namesake as the focal point of attacks.

Finally, can someone tell me what Butti is doing on the bench? It's widely accepted he's Zenga's minder so I have no idea why he's stalking the technical area and gobbing off at everyone during the 90 minutes. Strikes me as being two slices short of a loaf.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Doherty looked like he'd been on the 'pop' the night before and his mistake cost us the goal and a point. I think he spent too long during the game casting a jealous eye on Sacko's gloves.

Having said that the defender has been our best player for the past year and shouldn't be castigated for that mistake or banished to the sidelines.

Peter Abbott (London Wolves)

What's your verdict on the match? Poor, poor game and a bad result. So annoying especially on the day of London Wolves' 50th anniversary match. Unlucky too for Silvio after clearly having his best game for the club.

Unfortunately, we looked an empty shell, lacking in imagination and, Edwards excepted, little determination or just plenty of confusion as to the game plan?

It was a difficult first half for Doherty, then he was subbed after his mistake led directly to the goal. He appeared to pass the baton then to Hause who also wobbled.

Costa and Teixeira failed to dent Leeds in the first half and Ola John and Cavaleiro showed more when they took up the attacks.

Dicko looks like he's struggling to me and, whilst although undoubtedly big and strong, Bodvarsson spent much of the first half on his backside, and he hardly saw the ball in the second period.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Man of the match - I couldn't fault Dave Edwards in any way and he showed what others need to think about.

Sarah Connolly

What's your verdict on the match? It's tough to watch at the minute. A team with 13 new players, including a lot of quality, and it's very easy to argue that they are massively underperforming.

One point from a possible 15 sounds more like relegation form than promotion. It isn't worrying. Yet. We're still only 14 games in, but Zenga and the team are going to have to start pulling some points out of the bag, if only for confidence.

A lot of the 'Zenga out' talk is due to the form. I'd say the majority of fans still want to see him succeed, but it will be interesting now to see if Fosun have the same levels of patience.

If their aim was to have a team capable of reaching the play offs, then we are currently nowhere near achieving that ambition. One win in 5 games is nowhere near play off form.

Leeds weren't any better than us yesterday. It was a pretty awful game full stop. Our sins this season, as with yesterday, are that we just cannot finish our chances and we're making too many mistakes at the back.

We made a lot of good runs yesterday and squandered too many good chances. We're missing the type of natural finisher that we had in Afobe. For me, that is top of the shopping list in January along with a solid centre back.

The players have to take responsibility as well. Too many mistakes from professional footballers and some are taking too many touches just to control the ball. Going back to basics would be a good place to start! A few could also do with a few hours in the gym, we are muscled off the ball far too easily.

We play some encouraging football at times, we just need to make that count now.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Hard to pick a complete stand-out but I think Dave Edwards had a decent game, always looking to win the ball back if he'd lost it and played some good passes through.

It's easy to scapegoat Doc for his mistake for the goal. Yes, he should have cleared it and needs to take responsibility for that.

But not one of the back four tries to pick his chin up afterwards and for me, Zenga made the right decision in subbing him off as it was looking like he might make another slip up.

Chris Hughes

What's your verdict on the match? Another home game, another shambles.

A lot of our Mike Bassett-esque fans have called for a 4-4-2 formation which Zenga implemented and it looked dire.

A central midfield pairing of Edwards and Saiss were so slow at moving the ball that we could have had Barcelona's MSN front line and still not created any chances.

Our dangerous, high-tempo counter attacking disappeared and was replaced by ponderous inefficiency, with Costa and Teixeira both looking more interested in avoiding injury than creating anything.

Bodvarsson was well suppressed by two big centre halves and Dicko still looks a striker lacking sharpness and probably in need of 15-20 minute runs from the bench rather than starting games.

The back four looked fairly solid in our own third for the most part but did struggle at times to deal with the physical presence of Chris Wood and the goal we conceded was awful.

Firstly, Doherty has to be held accountable for his error in trying to run a ball out that was never going to make the touchline but to solely blame him would ignore the fact that the rest of the back four was at sixes and sevens positionally in the six-yard box when the cross came in.

Pre-game I advocated time for Zenga, as he's had only two months to work with this squad and try to find out what all of his players can do, but you get the feeling that the new bosses will not be happy with these performances and that he's going to come under increasing pressure to turn results around.

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Not one player on the field could hold their head up after the game and declare they'd put in a good performance.

And another home game has come and gone where we've looked completely toothless in attack. Something definitely needs to change.

Russ Evers (Hatherton Wolves)

What's your verdict on the match? Pre-match optimism at the exciting look of an attacking line up soon faded as Wolves produced another Hoddle-era performance of keeping the ball without doing anything with it.

To their credit they kept a Leeds side formed from the land of the giants largely quiet but did nowhere near enough in front of the visitor's goal.

We did carve out a few chances and in seasons gone by Dicko would have etched his name on the scoresheet at least once, but worryingly he looks miles off the pace and succumbed to the rest of the players' efforts in always needing that extra touch.

The only goal came yet again from a mindless defensive mistake, this time courtesy of the normally reliable Doherty.

This was a game to be won and, ultimately, lost in midfield where Dangerous Dave still to me mimmicks a consultant at the NHS where he gets in everyone's faces but very often produces very little of note.

Whilst I don't think we are a million miles off becoming a good side we are now desperate to produce a consistent team selection and allow them to grow.

Worryingly we are several points adrift of the points total gained at this stage of the season under Solbakken and we ended up going down.

Can't see that happening again but with only one point from the last five games it is starting to look decidedly uncomfortable for Walter Zenga, especially under the watching eyes of the owners. We need strong heads in the set up and quickly

Who played well - and who didn't impress? Costa and Teixeira showed some nice touches, as did Silvio, but for the third game in a row we were bullied and weren't physically strong enough especially in midfield.