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Nuno Espirito Santo speaks! “I’m very happy for the boys and for our fans. They are a very tough side. We’ll go game by game in this competition; nothing changes. Matt Doherty is fantastic – he keeps on running, up and down, he never stops. We are very happy with him. It was a big challenge to prove himself in the Premier League and he has done that. Everyone knows we like to use the wings and switch play, as we did for the goal.”
Post-match interviews
Conor Coady “It was a frantic second half. Bristol are a good team and we knew it would be tough today - people think Premier League clubs should win easily but it’s not like that. I thought we dominated the first half but we had to stick in there in the second half. We spoke about it at half-time – we knew there would be a reaction and they played really well.”
Ivan Cavaleiro “I’m very happy to score but the most important thing is that the team move on to the next round. It was a really tough game and a great win for us.”
When the quarter-final draw is made tomorrow night, Wolves will be third favourites to win the competition. They had to work so hard in the second half to win that. Bristol City, who were a bit genteel in the first half, passed the ball superbly in the second half and were much the better side. There’s a helluva lot to like about both these teams, particularly in possession.
Full time: Bristol City 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Peep peep! Wolves are into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 2003!
90+5 min: What a finish! Brownhill bursts down the right and stands up a beautiful cross to the far post, where Kalas’s towering downward header bounces up and is headed off the line by Saiss. Ruddy had it covered, to be fair.
The corner leads to a desperate scramble in the area, during which the City keeper Fielding has a shot saved by his opposite number Ruddy!
90+3 min A stinging long-range shot from Brownhill is superbly blocked by Boly, who is almost knocked off his feet by the force of the blow.
90+2 min Wolves make another change, with Adama Traore replacing the excellent Raul Jimenez.
90 min Five minutes of added time.
89 min Bristol City are no longer the form team in Europe’s five biggest professional leagues, yet they will be enormously encouraged by this second-half performance. They are a neat, likeable side who have outpassed an excellent Wolves team.
88 min: What a chance for Pack! The resulting corner, taken beautifully by O’Dowda, skims off the head of a Wolves defender at the near post and flashes right across the six-yard box before Pack wafts it over the bar. He must have seen it very late, but that was still City’s best chance of the game.
87 min Paterson’s fast free-kick is headed on by Taylor, 15 yards from goal, and Ruddy stretches to tip it over the bar.
86 min A moronic shove from Boly gives Bristol City a free-kick 35 yards from goal. A Wolves player, possibly Gibbs-White, is booked for kicking the ball away.
85 min Taylor makes an angled run infield from the left, away from goal, all the while lining up a glorious equaliser from 25 yards. Goalkick to Wolves.
83 min Moutinho is booked for a foul on the impressive O’Dowda.
83 min The corner bounces around the area before Boly hoofs it into orbit. Just before that first chance, Neves came on to replace Doherty for Wolves.
82 min: Fine save from Fielding! Jimenez won the ball off Kalas and slid in GIbbs-White, whose firm left-footed shot was pushed behind at the near post by Fielding.
79 min Wolves cannot get out. Paterson gets his head up and picks out Pack, whose well-struck sidefoot from the edge of the area is straight into Ruddy’s loving embrace.
78 min O’Dowda’s deep, inswinging corner is volleyed towards goal by Wright and pinballs around the area before being hoofed off the line by Doherty. Eventually City win a second corner, and then a third, which is headed away superbly by Boly under considerable pressure.
76 min Moutinho’s curling free-kick is tipped over the bar by the flying Fielding. It wouldn’t have dipped into the net anyway but Fielding was right not to take the risk.
75 min Kalas is booked for a foul on Jimenez 25 yards from goal. He was the last man, and that could easily have been a red card because Jimenez would have been through on goal. I think it was a clear goalscoring opportunity, though I suppose Fielding might just have got to the ball first.
73 min City have been a lot better in this half, though they still haven’t created any really clear chances. They probably should have had a penalty, mind you.
72 min “The way the draw has panned out, with only City and United or Chelsea in the last eight, means teams like Wolves, Palace, etc, have a great chance to reach the final,” says Brian Boyce.
Agreed. And you could imagine a scenario whereby, for example, United beat Chelsea and then City before losing to Palace/Watford/Wolves/whoever in the final.
70 min Wolves make their first change, with the goalscorer Ivan Cavaleiro replaced by Morgan Gibbs-White.
69 min Pack’s good low shot from 30 yards is comfortably saved by the diving Ruddy.
68 min: Good save from Ruddy! Lovely play down the right from Brownhill, who beat two players just outside the area through sleight of hip and stabbed the ball towards the six-yard line. It was flicked towards goal by the stretching Taylor, and Ruddy changed direction smartly to save.
66 min Bristol City make their third substitution, with Jamie Paterson replacing the sporadically effective Kasey Palmer.
63 min Wolves calm things down for a few minutes with a bit of possession football.
61 min “Ah, you should check MBMs out; they’re great fun,” says Matt Dony. “Oblique references to the Sopranos and/or 90’s indie music, smart-arse emails from people who have nothing better to do on a weekend, occasional moans from people who don’t want anything to distract them from pure football action, insane bias towards/against (insert club of choice), words of wisdom from Gary Naylor, regular instances of mistaken identity, something for everyone!”
When you say ‘everyone’...
60 min O’Dowda, who had been superb since half-time, hits the free-kick straight out of play for a goalkick.
59 min O’Dowda, who has been superb since half-time, is shoved over by Jonny, giving City a free-kick on the right wing...
57 min City have been much the better team since half-time. Dasilva’s cross rebounds off the arm of Boly in the penalty area, though he knew very little about it and it wasn’t as clear as the earlier appeal.
55 min City have matched Wolves’ formation, and they are also playing with much greater intensity and purpose. Diedhiou is fouled 30 yards from goal, a long way to the left of centre. Palmer curls the free-kick a few yards wide, though Ruddy had it covered.
53 min I suspect that non-penalty decision would have been overturned with VAR. Meanwhile, Dasilva has missed a great chance to equalise! O’Dowda again burst into space down the right. This time he cut the ball back teasingly towards the edge of the area, where the left-back Dasilva had loads of time - too much time - to run onto the ball and curl it miles over the bar with his right foot.
52 min Actually, City could easily have had a penalty then because Dasilva’s cross hit the outstretched hand of Doherty.
52 min Wright is booked for ploughing through Cavaleiro in the 1980s style.
51 min O’Dowda beats Jonny on the right and flashes a dangerous cross that is eventually cleared by Bennett. This is much better from City, who moments later have an appeal for a penalty when Dasilva’s cross hits Doherty. I don’t think that was handball.
49 min The other substitute Taylor wins a corner for City. Brownhill’s inswinger is headed away the far post by Coady.
48 min Pack has already played three or four cute passes in midfield. He wasn’t fit to start the game but City look so much better with him in the team.
47 min “As a Man City supporter I feel obliged to point out that, as things stand, Man City will move above Bristol City in the form table you posted earlier,” says Phil Grey. “And that defeat to Newcastle is becoming less and less fathomable with every kick of a ball.”
46 min Peep peep! Wolves begin the second half.
Bristol City have made a double substitution at half-time: Marlon Pack and Matty Taylor replace Niclas Eliasson and Joe Morrell.
Half-time reading
Half time: Bristol City 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Peep peep! That was extremely impressive from Wolves, who passed Bristol City to sleep and could be two or three goals ahead. The goal they did score was driven in by Ivan Cavaleiro after excellent play from Matt Doherty.
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45 min “There’s this really useful site that has the possession stats big and up-front,” says Andrew. “It’s called something like ‘The Guardian MBM’.”
Oh I can’t access that, I’ve blocked it on all my platforms.
44 min Moutinho, probably the best player on the pitch so far, drops a free-kick onto the head of Boly, whose glancing header goes a few yards wide of the far post.
42 min There’s no VAR in this match I should have said that earlier. Before the game, arguably.
41 min Doherty curls a superb pass over the top for Jimenez, who expends so much energy trying to hold off Webster that he forgets to shoot. When he eventually tries to do so, he falls over and looks hopefully at the referee. No penalty.
40 min I never thought I’d say this ... but I’d love to see the possession stats for this half. Wolves must have had at least 70 per cent.
39 min A half chance for City. Wright’s high, hanging cross is headed over from eight yards by Palmer, who couldn’t get over the ball.
37 min Wolves have played with such authority in this half. And even though they are winning, they won’t want to hear the half-time whistle.
34 min “‘The Dead-Ball One,’” says Matt Dony of our friend Jose Mourinho. “(Except, he never actually said ‘THE Special One’, he said ‘A special one’, which was pretty much fair enough at that point bearing in mind what he’d achieved. The man is a walking disaster these days, but that was always an unfair stick to beat him with. Tangential rant over.)”
Yes, he was the best manager in the world at the time. He was preposterously arrogant, and so much fun until he became a nihilist.
33 min: Good save from Fielding! A long pass forward is helped on by Jimenez to Dendoncker, who waits for the ball to bounce and lashes a shot towards the near post that is turned behind by Fielding. That was another lovely touch from Jimenez, whose link play has been immaculate today.