Wolves play host to Manchester United at Molineaux next Sunday in what will undoubtedly be a key game with regards to whether the former can stay in the Premiership this season and the latter can win the Premiership this season. Wolves won this fixture two-one in last year’s campaign but when the two sides met at Old Trafford four days after United were eliminated from the Champions League earlier this season, Mick McCarthy’s men were on the end of a four-one drubbing that may well be repeated this coming weekend.
United were knocked out of the consolatory Europa league in midweek and will south-east down the M23 aware of the fact that the only thing that can save their season will be pipping their archrivals Manchester City to the league crown.
I am attending the match next Sunday and so will be looking for a cheap Birmingham hotel as a good friend of mine lives in the city and I’ll go and visit him after the lunchtime kick-off. He owns a chain of establishments that also have cheap hotels in Derby where I imagine I’ll be staying next season when I go to watch Wolves games because they will have been relegated and so will be visiting Pride Park to play away games against Clough’s Derby County at Pride Park in the Championship.
This is because there can little doubt that United will leave Wolverhampton with all three points in the bag as they have won seven of their last eight games and drawn the other while Mick McCarthy’s men have the worst home record in the division. They just have not been able to find the net as frequently as necessary to pick up the number of points that they need to stay in the Premiership, while United have been ripping through defences in the league with ease all season. Wayne Rooney looks like he is once again going to break the thirty goals barrier this season while if Hernandez starts on Sunday, it will be only the fiftieth appearance for the Mexican in the Premiership. What an impact the diminutive Chicharido has had already.
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