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What an enraged Gary O’Neil admitted amid the Luton Town controversy as Pedro Neto demonstrates Wolves brilliance Wolverhampton Wanderers news and analysis from BirminghamLive as we examine the Premier League 1-1 draw at Luton Town.

 

In an action-packed match, Wolves were forced to settle for a 1-1 draw at Luton Town. They rallied from Jean-Ricner Bellegarde’s red card in the 39th minute to take the lead on 50 minutes through Pedro Neto, but were pegged back by Carlton Morris’ 65th-minute penalty after Joao Gomes was controversially penalized for handball. Mike Baggaley, our Wolves correspondent, selects his talking points…

Pedro Neto was brilliant: Wolves did not deserve to win this game, but they threatened to do so because to Pedro Neto’s brilliance. Okay, there was more to it than that; their tenacity helped, as did Joao Gomes’ brilliant through ball to reach the Portuguese winger.

What followed, though, was extraordinary, as Neto shown the pace and tenacity to get past Tom Lockyer, then the poise to cut into the area and shoot the ball past keeper Thomas Kaminski to give his team the lead five minutes into the second half. Neto came into this game having assisted on all four of Wolves’ previous Premier League goals. He took matters into his own hands this time.

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Could we just get a decision? Wolves aren’t asking for anything, but they should expect rulings like Luton’s penalty to be reversed. The ball obviously deflected off the leg of Joao Gomes before striking the unfortunate midfielder’s outstretched arm. VAR should have corrected the judgment but did not, putting Wolves on the wrong side of a controversy for the second time this season, after been rejected a penalty for Andre Onana’s tackle at Old

Trafford in the first game.

Substitutions have an impact: Gary O’Neil’s substitutions at home to Liverpool couldn’t prevent the opposition from seizing control of the game, but it was a different story here. Toti, on the left of the back three, and Matt Doherty, on the left wing back, both contributed to Wolves appearing more solid against a Luton side that was still on top but didn’t produce the opportunities they would have liked against ten men.

Toti and Doherty are expected to start against Ipswich Town in the Carabao Cup third round on Tuesday. Their performances off the bench tonight may have pushed them closer to a place in O’Neil’s league squad.