Liam Keen and special guest Jonny Drury discuss the good and the bad following Wolves' dramatic 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace.
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00:00Welcome back to the latest episode of the Keen and Judah show. As we said in part one,
00:11I am not Nathan Judah, he is away at the moment. My name is Jonny Dreary. I am back alongside
00:16Liam Keen, to be honest Liam, I think we should have renamed the show this week, maybe the
00:20Keen and Dreary show. We've got a bit of a better ring to it, haven't we?
00:23You did suggest that it might be the Dreary and Keen show, but I thought-
00:26Well, no, that doesn't sound that good.
00:27You can't move the order around. I'm obviously the A-side here, and I have to be at the beginning.
00:32I'm always the A-side when Judah's here, and I continue to be so when you're drafted in.
00:37I know, yeah. And to be fair, I don't think you could have remade the artwork up, because
00:40I wouldn't like to see the character version of myself, I don't think it would be nice.
00:44I don't like to see the character version of me most of the week, but it's fine.
00:47I think it would have been great.
00:48Wolves fans, we talked about all the positive performances in part one. We're going to talk
00:52about some of the negatives in the three down in the second section.
00:56And there were a few who didn't perform to quite the level on Saturday in the 2-2 draw
01:03against Crystal Palace. Keno, we'll start with Nelson Samedo.
01:09Discuss.
01:10Yeah, yeah. And I'll be honest with you, this one hurts a little bit.
01:15Because I've always been a little bit mixed on Samedo.
01:20I think he's had some fantastic spells in a wolf shirt, some really, really top spells.
01:24He's had some poor ones as well.
01:26But I think he's a good player. He's a good player. I think he's a good leader.
01:29He's a good character. And he was captain for the day with Lamina being on the bench
01:33for this game. And I think he brings a lot of good to this wolf side.
01:38And I was so impressed with him against City and against Palace.
01:43You've got to bear in mind the kind of players he was up against in these two games.
01:47And in order, it was this. Doku, then Savino, once Doku and Savino changed wings.
01:54Then Grealish came on in that second half.
01:56Then he played Matoma at Brighton.
01:59Matoma, by the way, a player who got the better of Samedo on a few occasions
02:04in the last few years as well.
02:06He's played with all four of those players on in the last two fixtures before this Palace game.
02:11And his 1v1 defending has been absolutely fantastic.
02:14There was one moment, and we're nitpicking here,
02:16but there was one moment when Matoma got in behind him,
02:20got to the byline and put a ball in the Brighton game, and it didn't come to anything.
02:25And that was basically all I can think of,
02:28of a moment that any of those four very talented wingers got the better of Nelson Samedo.
02:33And in the modern game, a lot of teams play with wide players,
02:37often with two wide players, actually, these days.
02:40And it means the 1v1 defending for the fullbacks has got to be on it.
02:43And Samedo's 1v1 defending has been absolutely fantastic these two games.
02:47I was so impressed with him going into the Palace game as captain,
02:52and he was way below the standard he set himself, way off it.
02:56And it was actually less his 1v1 defending.
02:58There was a few moments he got caught out.
03:00There was a moment in the first half that he was very slow in tracking back,
03:03and he left Santi Bueno isolated.
03:05I was a bit disappointed with his lack of desire, really, to get back in.
03:11I don't think he's a player that lacks that in general,
03:12but in that particular moment, he did.
03:15So the 1v1 defending actually wasn't a major concern.
03:18It was more his in-possession stuff on this occasion.
03:20Going forward, he did offer a little bit of a threat at times,
03:23but the amount of times he lost the ball,
03:25the stats show he lost possession 17 times over the 90 minutes.
03:30He gave the ball away so often in that second half.
03:32And on two occasions, he gave the ball directly to a Palace player,
03:38allowing them a break in Wolves' half with an overload of men as well.
03:43And Wolves were close to conceding on a few occasions
03:46directly because of Nelson Samedo's poor passing.
03:50That's how I spoke about with Lamina coming on
03:54when Wolves were 1-0 down and the Wolves were all over the place.
03:56Samedo, unfortunately, played a big part in that.
03:59I don't know whether it was the atmosphere,
04:01with Wolves fans booing every chance that Palace got.
04:04It was the fact that Wolves were losing again.
04:06Whatever it is, something got to him.
04:08And he was so erratic in possession, so bad at giving the ball away,
04:13and put Wolves under more pressure rather than doing the opposite.
04:16And it's a shame, really, because I do think he's a very good player.
04:19He's much better than that,
04:20but that was a performance definitely to forget for Nelson Samedo.