A look at Wolves’ worst spell during their last promotion success

Follow us on Google Discover

Wolverhampton Wanderers have faced struggles before, as evidenced by their last successful promotion season.

Wolverhampton Wanderers are in the midst of their worst run of the campaign having gone three league games without a win but, believe it or not, things could be a lot worse.

That is when you compare them to the Championship-winning Wolves side of 2009. Back then Wolves also got off to a flying start under Mick McCarthy, to the point where most people could foresee a dip in form somewhere down the line.

It wound up coming over the often difficult winter period, as Wolves won just one league game in 11 between Boxing Day and February 28. So, as you can imagine, things were a little bit more precarious than they are now.

On a positive note, Wolves are much further along in the campaign than they were when their slump came in 2008/09, and by sheer mathematics alone you can figure out that they are much further along in the process of gaining promotion to the Premier League.

Also, the overall talent and natural ability of this year’s squad is head and shoulders above the former second-tier champions, which leads many fans to believe that Wolves are capable of beating anyone on any given day.

Now, unfortunately, we come to the cons.

This kind of environment, aka the unpredictability and chaos of the Championship, is something that has been entirely new for Nuno Espirito Santo this season. While he has been able to cope with it relatively well so far, he does not have the experience when it comes to grinding out results against teams that have begun to figure out your system. McCarthy, on the other hand, had the luxury of his past years in the division to fall back on.

Then you have to consider the fatigue of the players, with Wolves’ current crop of foreigners not being used to having no winter break available to them.

There are so many variables in play this season that it is difficult to determine how things will end up, but it is certainly interesting to note the comparisons.