Nathan and Judah and Liam Keen are on top of the world after Wolves snatch a point from Bournemouth at Vitality Stadium.
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00:00Welcome back to the second half. It is the Keenan Junior Show. Before the break, we had
00:09two on the way up, and that was Andre, the man of the match, and what a man of the match
00:12he was, Liam, and also Mateus Cunha. Matt Doherty on the way down, slightly harsh, but
00:18you can understand the reasons that we discussed. So, two more on the way up, and one man who
00:23came into the starting line, and we both predicted it, and that was someone who's been on fire
00:30and that is Jean-Ricne Bellegarde. Bang in form, Liam. However, he's done some of his
00:37best work in the centre of midfield, so when he plays in this game, you think, oh, where's
00:43he going to play? Is he going to play on that right wing? Is he going to hug that touchline,
00:47which is where we've seen him maybe have some more disappointing displays, and it was kind
00:51of a hybrid of both, and at the same time, it doesn't matter, because some of his best
00:56work was done on that right wing. He was excellent again, shepherded the ball very,
01:01very well, used it, pace, power, linked up well. He is full of confidence, and I tell
01:06you what, he deserves an apology from some people, Jean-Ricne Bellegarde, and maybe from
01:11us as well, because I was starting to worry about whether Jean-Ricne Bellegarde was a
01:16consistent Premier League player week in, week out, and he is in brilliant form at this
01:20moment in time. I think along with Cunha, I gave him an eight out of ten, could have
01:24been a nine, full of confidence, and this is a player, and really a bit of a surprise
01:29player from nowhere, because a few of us had written him off as someone maybe who we're
01:34going to see more from the substitutes bench going forward.
01:36Yeah, he had been written off by a lot of sections, and to be honest, kind of rightly
01:42so, to some degree, because he'd had enough time in Walshshire to show something, and
01:48hadn't really shown a lot. He'd had the odd game, or the odd half here and there, where
01:53he's clearly a player with talent, and it just wasn't, not everything was coming together
01:57at the right time, which sometimes you need a little bit of luck to make that happen,
02:02but equally, there's lots of things that the player can control that he needed to improve
02:06on, and it wasn't quite happening. But we sat here last week on the Keenan-Judas show
02:10and said it's amazing what confidence can do for a footballer, how the mind can impact
02:16a performance, and Bellegarde is in his best form, most consistent form of his Wolves career
02:22by some distance, and I find it really interesting that on a couple of those occasions, Bournemouth,
02:30and also when he came on at half-time against Liverpool for most of that second half, that
02:34has come on the right-hand side, because this resurgence in form came against Villa in the
02:39sentiment field, which continued against Blackburn, and he was fantastic, and we saw all the reasons
02:43why Vito Pereira took that chance in the first place to play him there, and then persevered
02:50with that opportunity for him. And you do worry when you move a player from one position
02:54to another, even though we never thought of him as a sentiment fielder in the first place,
02:58and you move him back over to the right, that sort of confidence or that form or that ability
03:04and belief in himself is going to wane, and he's going to struggle to get back to that
03:09same form again, and he's only continued, he's only kicked on further, which I think
03:14is testament to the player. We talk about things that the player can control with his
03:18performance to make sure everything comes together, and that is something he can control,
03:24and straightaway he's been able to do it. So that's a testament to him, and he's now
03:29become a player that, with other players maybe not quite taking their opportunities of late,
03:34that has to start in this team, and I don't think either of us would have thought we would
03:38be saying that about Jean-René Bellegard this season. So credit to the player, and
03:41credit to the manager for being able to get it out of him.