Wolves 1-0 Nottingham Forest: Ruben Neves scores penalty and Brennan Johnson misses penalty

Wolves person converted their past 18 penalties successful the Premier League, including 7 from Ruben Neves

Wolves came retired connected apical successful a crippled of 2 penalties to ascent retired of the relegation portion and permission Nottingham Forest bottommost of the Premier League.

After a 2nd lengthy VAR involution erstwhile referee Thomas Bramall initially missed Matheus Nunes pulling backmost Ryan Yates, Wolves keeper Jose Sa superbly turned distant Brennan Johnson's spot-kick.

The prevention was made much singular arsenic Sa has been playing with a breached bony successful his wrist since helium damaged it against Fulham connected 13 August.

Max Kilman earlier deed the wrong of a station with a header and was unfortunate the rebound went consecutive to Forest keeper Dean Henderson.

It was a superb mode for interim Wolves bosses Steve Davis and James Collins to commencement a perchance important week that ends with a location crippled against Leicester adjacent Sunday.

However, the symptom goes connected for Forest brag Steve Cooper. His broadside are without a triumph since August and person picked up a azygous constituent from their past 7 games.

Day to retrieve for stand-in brag Davis

For lifelong Wolves instrumentality Davis, presiding implicit this triumph volition beryllium peculiarly satisfying.

Chairman Jeff Shi's hunt for a imperishable replacement for Bruno Lage continues and Wolves' biggest occupation - a deficiency of extremity menace - remains.

But Neves' extremity - lone Wolves' 4th successful the league this play and their archetypal successful the 2nd fractional of a crippled for 11 matches - gave them their 2nd triumph successful 17 matches and volition assistance spirits astir a nine seemingly successful freefall.

No-one encapsulates Wolves' descent down the Premier League much than Adama Traore.

During 2 seventh-placed finishes nether Nuno Espirito Santo, the Spain winger was a genuine threat.

While inconsistency has ever been an irritating diagnostic of his game, astatine his champion Traore is susceptible of unhinging defences with his gait alone.

But with lone 3 league goals since 2019, his declaration moving retired astatine the extremity of the play and a hoped-for determination to Barcelona failing to materialise, Traore's clip astatine Molineux appears to beryllium drifting to a mediocre end.

He astatine slightest looked susceptible of creating chances here, crossing for Kilman to caput against a station and Rayan Ait-Nouri to motion wide astatine the acold post.

It was Traore's changeable which struck Harry Toffolo and yet brought Wolves their punishment aft Bramall was sent to the surface by VAR Lee Mason.

Cooper's punishment pain

Forest handed Cooper a caller three-year declaration aft their four-goal hammering astatine Leicester a fortnight ago. Without it, his tenure would beryllium highly precarious now.

He was visibly frustrated astatine Wolves' penalty, peculiarly arsenic the crippled had moved to the different extremity of the transportation and the hosts were preparing to instrumentality a country erstwhile Mason alerted Bramall to Nunes' infringement.

Cooper could lone ticker successful despair arsenic Johnson wasted the accidental to level.

A fewer hours earlier kick-off, Forest posted a tweet depicting 1 of their players cuddling 3 wolves with the caption 'Playtime'. Evidently idiosyncratic elder astatine the City Ground did not similar it arsenic the station was deleted.

The tweet proved to beryllium sick advised, fixed the outcome. At the moment, contempt a summertime outlay successful excess of £100m, Forest are the ones who look similar a becalmed mentation of what they are expected to be.

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