Opinion: A special win

This is how Jose does it. And how, to be fair, our team under Poch did it in the Champions League all last spring. An early goal, a frustrating Dier miss off the post, a few fizzled opportunities involving Dele, Son and Kane, and meanwhile Wolves simply bossed nearly the entire game.

For large sections it was as if they were a man up as they pressed us, linked up beautifully in the midfield, sent Traore on search and destroy missions over and over again down our left flank, and seemed constantly on the verge of scoring. Jiminez just missed, our defence was generally well-organized and held but for the Traore run down the middle and brilliant strike for their goal, and Gazzaniga came up with the one late world class save on the headed corne...