Wolves 2-1 Cambridge Utd (Or, How it Was Finally Confirmed Beyond Doubt That Wolves are a One Man Team)

Wolves narrowly escaped the wrong end of an FA Cup giant-killing against Cambridge United yesterday. Cambridge used to be a league team (anyone else remember John Taylor, Dion Dublin, Steve Claridge and John Beck’s insistence that a long ball was the only ball worth playing?) but now dwell in the professional but still technically non-league Conference National.

Neil Collins dozily gave away a penalty in the first half when he lost possession trying to play the ball across his own box (No Neil! Never ever do that!) and then hand-balled in the box trying to clean up his own mess. Cambridge scored the penalty and looked like beating us at Molineux until Mick McCarthy remembered in the second half that we’re basically a one man team and brought a fit again Michael Kightly (pictured) off the bench with just half an hour to go. Nine minutes later Kightly scored the equalizer with a crisp volley and then with just two minutes until full-time Kightly won a free-kick out wide and sent in a cross for a very grateful Neil Collins to head home and give Wolves a lucky 2-1 win.

First off, maximum respect to Cambridge for a quality effort. They were also unlucky to concede that late goal, especially as the free kick Wolves won was more than a little dubious.

Great work by Mick McCarthy with the Kightly substitution, great that Collins redeemed his young self after a horrible gaffe, and I’m obviously happy that Wolves are through to the Fourth Round (I love a cup run) and even happier to see Kightly back in action. But the effect Kightly had on the game was a little worrying. It reminded me of the ’90s where Wolves were brilliant with Steve Bull in the team and useless without him.

Category: Team News

Tags: FA Cup, Michael Kightly, Neil Collins, Team News, Wolves

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