{"id":448314,"date":"2026-01-30T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:56:08","slug":"wolves-v-bournemouth-key-stats-and-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448314\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves v Bournemouth: Key stats and talking points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even the most optimistic of Wolverhampton Wanderers fans would be hard pushed to make a case for their club&#8217;s Premier League survival as they welcome Bournemouth to Molineux on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rooted to the bottom of the table since early September, Wolves&#8217; five-game unbeaten run in all competitions came to an unsurprising end against Manchester City last week, meaning they find themselves 18 points shy of safety, with just one win all season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Mane in town<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clearly it is too soon to ask teenager Mateus Mane to fill the boots of summer departure Matheus Cunha, but two goals in his first six career starts mark a promising breakthrough for the 18-year-old, who is also \u2013 worryingly \u2013 the club&#8217;s joint top league scorer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves have netted a paltry 15 league goals all season, the fewest in the competition by some margin. They&#8217;ve also shipped 43, flitting between two goalkeepers in Sam Johnstone and current first-choice Jose Sa, who has been linked with a move to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves are particularly susceptible to conceding goals from outside the box, recording a league-high nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even the most optimistic of Wolverhampton Wanderers fans would be hard pushed to make a case for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-448314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}