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Wolverhampton Wanderers
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 12/14/2009

Wow! Back to back Premier League wins, the first top flight victory in the capital since 1066 and out of the bottom three.
After losing to Blues we needed something special to get the survival campaign back on track.
That was it, and as if to illustrate the point, it’s 16 points from 16 games and that is bang on target as we reach the half-way point of the season.

Arry’s selection of Keane was interesting. It was the only change from his previously winning side.
I wonder if a bit of sentimentality crept in to his thinking when he went for the Wolves old boy instead of staying with the all-conquering Crouch-Defoe partnership.
Or maybe he remembered that hat-trick Keane scored at Molineux the last time we played them. Sorry mate, that was a long time ago!
Robbie’s still a wonderful player but, whatever his reason, I’m glad Redknapp chose to tinker because he looked rusty.

Let’s not get carried away with these last two results though. We go to Old Trafford on Tuesday where anything other than a slapping will be a bonus.
But we can take great Hart from our performance at the Lane, not just because we won, but because of how we won.
Every player played his heart out. I have been tempted in recent weeks to call for a start for The Hof in place of SEB to offer something new in the search for goals.
But Sylvan was excellent against Spurs, tracking back and putting in tackles as well as holding the ball up front. There’s no way I would drop him now, especially when he’ll be keen to put one over the team that let him go.


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