{"id":458330,"date":"2026-02-06T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:50:09","slug":"you-cannot-drop-points-pundits-debate-if-wolves-a-must-win-or-a-trap-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458330\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou cannot drop points\u201d \u2013 Pundits debate if Wolves a \u201cmust win\u201d or a \u201ctrap game\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea play the team at the bottom of the league tomorrow, and we\u2019ve already written a few times that it\u2019s a perfect chance to score some goals and get out of form attackers like Cole Palmer full of confidence again.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how it should go \u2013 but we all know what the Premier League is like. If we think for a second it\u2019s going to be easy, we\u2019re sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wolves are without the weakest team in the division, and one of the weakest in a few years. But that doesn\u2019t mean it will be easy, just that we have the chance to win if we play well. If we slack off, we\u2019re sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea must win \u2013 but must not take Wolves lightly<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"629\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ea86fe1523f9aa4d38b9d9018e3825d1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wesley Fofana in action against Arsenal. (Photo by Clive Mason\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>They had the same thoughts on the London is Blue podcast:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really worried about this game. I think this has trap game written all over it. You have to get these points. You cannot drop points to 20th placed Wolves. At their place, at our place, on the moon. You can\u2019t drop points to 20th placed Wolves,\u201d presenter Nick Verlaney pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did draw 0-0 against Newcastle, they did draw against Manchester United, who currently sit above us in the table. They are the type of team, who if you take them a little less seriously, they can make you pay,\u201d fellow presenter Dan Dormer said.<\/p>\n<p>You can see their discussion in the clip embedded here:<\/p>\n<p>In other news\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Joao Pedro <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/joao-pedro-best-position-confusion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:has spoken about;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">has spoken about<\/a> what his best position is, and how Liam Rosenior is getting the best out of him and his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer has the perfect change to <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/cole-palmer-treatment-bigger-picture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:get right against Wolves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">get right against Wolves<\/a> tomorrow, if he doesn\u2019t look at his best soon we\u2019re going to start to get very worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea play the team at the bottom of the league tomorrow, and we\u2019ve already written a few times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,49,48,562,35435,187632,15870,2680,574,561,82,187633,154331,13714],"class_list":["post-458330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chelsea","tag-cole-palmer","tag-drop-points","tag-joao-pedro","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-trap-game","tag-wesley-fofana","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}