{"id":21887,"date":"2025-11-01T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wolverhampton-wanderers-embarrassing-display-at-fulham-savaged-as-relegation-looms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:42:44","slug":"wolverhampton-wanderers-embarrassing-display-at-fulham-savaged-as-relegation-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wolverhampton-wanderers-embarrassing-display-at-fulham-savaged-as-relegation-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton Wanderers: &#8216;Embarrassing&#8217; &#8211; display at Fulham savaged as relegation looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked to explain what went wrong at Fulham, Johnstone said: &#8220;Pretty much everything &#8211; I&#8217;m being completely honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to find words. There&#8217;s a lot of emotions, it&#8217;s very difficult in there [the dressing room].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves supporters again barracked the players after they went over at the final whistle &#8211; and angrily turned on Pereira again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defeat had all the hallmarks of a side doomed for the drop: conceding an early goal, a 36th-minute red card for Emmanuel Agbadou following a Fulham break and a comical Yerson Mosquera own goal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pereira said on Friday he did not feel the club was in crisis, but it was a &#8220;crisis of results&#8221;, and the Craven Cottage display definitely set the alarm bells ringing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No team has survived in the Premier League with two points after 10 games and, of the previous 20 sides winless after 10 games of a top-flight season, 14 were relegated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season Wolves had three after drawing 2-2 with Crystal Palace on 2 November and, while they survived after replacing Gary O&#8217;Neil with Pereira, the picture looks bleaker this time around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the answer [to how Wolves can be the ones to survive] but I can answer by saying last season, do you think for a club like Wolves, it was possible to win six games in a row?&#8221; said Pereira.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Very difficult, even for the big teams, it&#8217;s difficult to win six games in a row. This is my answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Pereira get the chance to turn things around though? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m doing my best, working hard to help my players and club. I cannot control the time, the confidence the club has in our work,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I can say is me and my staff, we are trying everything, changing the system, changing the players, to help the team perform and get results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cew4kygwz22t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">A 3-2 defeat by Burnley last Sunday<\/a> &#8211; Wolves beaten by a side who were happy to settle for a point with 15 minutes remaining &#8211; and Wednesday&#8217;s 4-3 Carabao Cup home loss to Chelsea at least had spirit and fight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were limp at Fulham, committing mistakes &#8211; including Santi Bueno&#8217;s gaffe for Ryan Sessegnon&#8217;s opener &#8211; and left Pereira disappointed on just how bad it was during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was the worst [performance],&#8221; said the Portuguese, whose side last tasted victory against Leicester City on 26 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt my team physically was not at the level to face Fulham. Tactically with some mistakes, technically we were not there. We missed a lot of passes, movements and we conceded the first goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The game for us and Fulham was not a fantastic game to see but after the red card it was very difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cev117p223ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked to explain what went wrong at Fulham, Johnstone said: &#8220;Pretty much everything &#8211; I&#8217;m being completely honest. &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to find words. There&#8217;s a lot of emotions, it&#8217;s very difficult in there [the dressing room].&#8221; Wolves supporters again barracked the players after they went over at the final whistle &#8211; and angrily turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21889,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions\/21889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}