Wolverhampton Wanderers drew 0-0 with Sunderland on Saturday.
Wolverhampton Wanderers were held to a 0-0 draw with Sunderland at Molineux on Saturday afternoon and Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo wasn’t hugely happy about the point for obvious reasons.
Wolves went into the game with a four-point cushion at the top of the Championship and a six-match winning streak which seemed very likely to become seven by virtue of the Black Cats’ woes.
Chris Coleman’s side were humbled 3-1 by Reading at the Stadium of Light last week in a defeat which kept them in the relegation zone.
With that in mind, Nuno’s troops were heavily fancied to beat Sunderland but the visitors posted a stubborn performance and left the West Midlands with a very hard-earned point – even if that point was won through a refusal to play football, according to the former Valencia coach.
Wolves finished the game with 72% possession and 23 shots to Sunderland’s one, and the Portuguese manager appeared to aim something of a dig at Coleman over his tactics afterwards.
“I thought we created enough. The high standards will always be there because we are a team that wants to grow and improve be able to deal with every situation,” he told The Express and Star.
“One of them is this, nine players behind the ball, not wanting to play football and we have to deal with that.
“The best way is to control your emotions knowing that the game and your game plan will lead you to the three points.”
Few can blame Sunderland’s defensive approach. When you’re in a relegation dogfight, going to somewhere like Wolves and trying to win is the quickest way to being ripped apart by the Championship’s highest goalscorers so far.
The Wearside outfit are now only one point adrift of safety for the time being.
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