Maguire made a long pass, and Wei Le's eyes lit up.

Buying Maguire, in fact, is because Wei Le is interested in his passing ability. A long pass just passed the opponent's midfield line and landed on the right side of the court. Bowen ran a few steps and finally caught up with the ball.

The ball was passed well, but Bowen made a mistake when he received the ball for the first time. When he finally received the ball, he was already surrounded. To be on the safe side, he passed the ball to Van der Beck who came to meet him, and then ran to the baseline.

This is a very common straight pass and diagonal insertion routine. Next, Van der Beck only needs to pass the ball to Bowen who came back from the baseline. Stoke City's central defender Zouma thought so. He also saw that Van der Beck was looking in Bowen's direction, so he ran a few steps and took advantage of Van der Beck's leg to pass the ball. He flew out to intercept the ball.

But Van der Beck didn't pass in that direction at all, but passed it directly to the area between the two central defenders where Zouma had just run away!

There was no one there!

Not only Stoke City players, but also Wolves players.

But the next second, Jota flew out next to the opponent's other central defender Shorrocks!

Really flew out! He almost turned on the nitrogen to accelerate, getting closer and closer to the through ball. Facing the ball and the goalkeeper, Jota directly pushed the ball with his non-dominant left foot!

"Hey!" Han Yang stood up, staring at the screen.

"Jota, facing the goalkeeper, catching up with the through ball, will he choose to dribble or... shoot! Push! The ball goes in!!!"

"The ball goes in!!!!!!"

"The first goal of Wolves' return to the Premier League was scored by Jota! The first player introduced by Wei Le after joining the team, the Portuguese striker Jota, in the 14th minute, Wolves took the lead at home!"

After Jota confirmed that the ball flew into the net, he ran to the sidelines!

Leaping over the billboard, Jota hugged the fans directly!

"First! First!" Fans surrounded Jota, and other players also arrived. Security separated the players and fans, and they returned to the field to continue celebrating the goal.

The cheers of nearly 40,000 fans at Molineux Stadium were like a tsunami, and the "0" under the Wolves on the scoreboard immediately turned into a "1".

"The goal scorer is... Diogo--" the voice of the stadium announcer sounded.

"Jota!!!!" The fans followed closely and shouted the name of the goal scorer!

Mark Hughes was so angry that he shook his hands, and beside him, Wei Le had hugged his assistants! Wei Le raised his arms and shouted, and Celars and others jumped up from their seats!

This goal is actually a very typical Wolves counterattack. Now it seems that this tactic can also be adapted to the Premier League!

After gaining the advantage, the Wolves' offensive began to slow down. Now their formation is gradually shrinking and appears more patient. And Stoke City players tried to start a counterattack.

Not long after Stoke City kicked off, they organized an offensive, also a long pass from the backcourt, caught Doherty's mistake, and Dejan got the ball. But the former Barcelona player's cut inside did not form a connection with his teammates, and he almost collided with Shaqiri. In the end, Dejan shot himself and hastily ended the attack.

And the shot did not even hit the goal range.

This is actually a problem Stoke City is facing now.

Many years ago, people heard of Stoke City's name "Sky City". If fans who watched football earlier, they may have an impression of Delap's grenade throw-in.

It seems that since then, Stoke City has been associated with high-altitude bombing. Successive head coaches have tried to maintain this style of football and choose taller players.

But in recent years, Stoke City is facing a transformation. Mark Hughes realized that the future Premier League is no longer as "violent" as it used to be. Heading bombing alone is not enough to maintain Stoke City's development. Stoke City wants to put the ball on the ground and kick it.

So, a few years ago, they introduced Bojan, the former Barcelona star of hope and now a frustrated player, at a low price, and also bought Shaqiri, who is not very tall, all in order to promote the team's transformation.

For a period of time, such a transformation has achieved results. After the transformation, Stoke City even broke into the top ten in the Premier League, which is a feat that has not been repeated for a long time.

But later, Stoke City had to face the problem of aging lineup and personnel loss.

After last season, the state of center forward Crouch was not as good as before, and he had entered the end of his career, and Dejan's talent seemed unable to shine in Stoke City.

After letting Anaut go,At the end of last season after Tovic, Stoke City made several transfers, but the midfield strength declined instead of rising. The two defensive midfielders were unable to bear the heavy responsibility, and Stoke City's 4-2-3-1 formation in this game was a formation that required extremely high midfield requirements.

Bojan played mediocrely, Shaqiri was restricted by two tall defensive midfielders, and the right forward Mame Diouf was sleepwalking throughout the game, and there was no way to compete with Tierney.

The defensive midfielder frequently missed people, so there was no need to launch an attack from the backcourt like Wolves, and even the most basic position was difficult to achieve. This led to Berahino, a striker, having a hard time getting opportunities.

Berahino, who was worth 14 million euros, has never been able to live up to his value since his transfer from Sheffield Wednesday in January 2017. I thought there would be a strong rebound at the beginning of this season, but now it seems that it is indeed difficult.

In the 28th minute, Wolves once again passed the opponent's central defense line through two simple passes and passed the ball to Bowen on the right. Bowen's 45-degree cross even caused the opponent's central defender Zouma to make a mistake.

Zouma, who was tall and strong, misjudged the ball's path when facing the arc ball. He kicked the ball clumsily and missed it! Such amateur action also caused laughter from Wolves fans, and the other central defender behind him cleared the ball out of the baseline for safety.

In this way, Wolves got a corner kick.

Maguire and Ruben Dias looked at each other and ran to the penalty area together - now is his time to play.

At this time, Stoke City's defense line was under too much pressure facing Dendoncker, Maguire, Ruben Dias and Rodri standing in the penalty area.

It seems that the Wolves in yellow are the "Sky City"!

Bowen took the football from the ball boy and did not forget to say thank you to the child. The children in the youth training camp laughed and watched Bowen put the ball in front of the corner flagpole with excitement.

Maguire, Ruben Dias and Dendoncker did not stand sideways, but stood together, close to the penalty area line. This position was very strange, and the Stoke City players were a little at a loss.

A corner kick was taken, and Rodri rushed into the penalty area from the back point. The other three high points ran to the front point, the back point and the middle of the goal respectively, and Jota, who was interfering with the goalkeeper, suddenly stepped back and retreated. Now there was chaos in the penalty area!

And Bowen's corner kick drew an arc and ran to the near corner of the goal!

Maguire overpowered Zouma and jumped high!

He exerted force on his waist and abdomen and headed for the goal! ! !

The football "banged" and bounced on the lower edge of the goal post, and then bounced into the goal in front of everyone!

The ball went in! ! ! !

Maguire scored with a header! Now Wolves are leading by two goals! ! ! !

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