Wolves were properly rubbish, wouldn't count against them being in a relegation battle on that showing. Clearly they know their defence is crap judging by how deep they played even with a man advantage. They will concede goals this year by the boat load I reckon.
As for us, very comfortable showing. I think we needed to play off Tosun more but when your most advanced midfielder has to be sacrificed after the red card I guess there isn't much you can do. We played a much higher line today than we did last season and for the most part we did it extremely well. Hopefully when Digne, Mina and one of either Zouma or Holgate are ready to start games we can establish a rock solid unit.
As for the red card, that is an unbelievably bad decision. It seems he got confused as to why he sent him off, BT were pretty certain during the game that he had been dismissed for denying a goal scoring opportunity which is bollocks because he denies the goal scoring opportunity by winning the ball. When a goalkeeper dives in on a striker and takes the ball first and then takes the man out its considered great play, why is this any different?
The new buzz phrase that they are now using is "excessive force" (which is entirely open to interpretation by the way) as another alternative to why he should have been sent off. Again, bollocks.
Did he lunge in? No, he stretched.
Did he use two feet? No.
Did he leave the floor? No.
Did he take the ball or the man first? The ball, clearly.
There's utterly no point in appealing though, they always try and back the ref under debatable circumstances. You could tell that when BT interviewed Peter Walton, a staggering buffoon and completely forgettable referee, who I can't recall even raising a point of interest as to why Pawson allowed the free kick to be taken 5 yards further forward than where the "foul" took place. Walton argued the Pawson could have shown Jagielka a red card either for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity or "excessive force". In my opinion its not even a foul.
A crap show all round from a bunch of muppets demonstrating clearly why FIFA didn't take their sorry arses to Russia.