How Wolves went from exciting to dull in the space of a year

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The second most significant injury of the Premier League season did not stop Wolves that evening. Raul Jimenez fractured his skull but they went on to beat Arsenal in November. 

Their campaign can be split into two parts. Wolves were sixth with Jimenez. They are 15th in the table since then. If it underlines that only Virgil van Dijk has been missed more than Molineux’s favourite Mexican, a mitigating factor should not excuse all Wolves’ failings in a subsequent slide.

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Richard Jolly

Richard Jolly also writes for the National, the Guardian, the Observer, the Straits Times, the Independent, Sporting Life, Football 365 and the Blizzard. He has written for the FourFourTwo website since 2018 and for the magazine in the 1990s and the 2020s, but not in between. He has covered 1500+ games and remembers a disturbing number of the 0-0 draws.