The Keen & Judah Show: Liam criticises Nelson Semedo, and he has the stats to back it up!

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Liam Keen and special guest Jonny Drury discuss the good and the bad following Wolves' dramatic 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace.

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00:00Welcome back to the latest episode of the Keen and Judah show. As we said in part one,

00:11I am not Nathan Judah, he is away at the moment. My name is Jonny Dreary. I am back alongside

00:16Liam Keen, to be honest Liam, I think we should have renamed the show this week, maybe the

00:20Keen and Dreary show. We've got a bit of a better ring to it, haven't we?

00:23You did suggest that it might be the Dreary and Keen show, but I thought-

00:26Well, no, that doesn't sound that good.

00:27You can't move the order around. I'm obviously the A-side here, and I have to be at the beginning.

00:32I'm always the A-side when Judah's here, and I continue to be so when you're drafted in.

00:37I know, yeah. And to be fair, I don't think you could have remade the artwork up, because

00:40I wouldn't like to see the character version of myself, I don't think it would be nice.

00:44I don't like to see the character version of me most of the week, but it's fine.

00:47I think it would have been great.

00:48Wolves fans, we talked about all the positive performances in part one. We're going to talk

00:52about some of the negatives in the three down in the second section.

00:56And there were a few who didn't perform to quite the level on Saturday in the 2-2 draw

01:03against Crystal Palace. Keno, we'll start with Nelson Samedo.

01:09Discuss.

01:10Yeah, yeah. And I'll be honest with you, this one hurts a little bit.

01:15Because I've always been a little bit mixed on Samedo.

01:20I think he's had some fantastic spells in a wolf shirt, some really, really top spells.

01:24He's had some poor ones as well.

01:26But I think he's a good player. He's a good player. I think he's a good leader.

01:29He's a good character. And he was captain for the day with Lamina being on the bench

01:33for this game. And I think he brings a lot of good to this wolf side.

01:38And I was so impressed with him against City and against Palace.

01:43You've got to bear in mind the kind of players he was up against in these two games.

01:47And in order, it was this. Doku, then Savino, once Doku and Savino changed wings.

01:54Then Grealish came on in that second half.

01:56Then he played Matoma at Brighton.

01:59Matoma, by the way, a player who got the better of Samedo on a few occasions

02:04in the last few years as well.

02:06He's played with all four of those players on in the last two fixtures before this Palace game.

02:11And his 1v1 defending has been absolutely fantastic.

02:14There was one moment, and we're nitpicking here,

02:16but there was one moment when Matoma got in behind him,

02:20got to the byline and put a ball in the Brighton game, and it didn't come to anything.

02:25And that was basically all I can think of,

02:28of a moment that any of those four very talented wingers got the better of Nelson Samedo.

02:33And in the modern game, a lot of teams play with wide players,

02:37often with two wide players, actually, these days.

02:40And it means the 1v1 defending for the fullbacks has got to be on it.

02:43And Samedo's 1v1 defending has been absolutely fantastic these two games.

02:47I was so impressed with him going into the Palace game as captain,

02:52and he was way below the standard he set himself, way off it.

02:56And it was actually less his 1v1 defending.

02:58There was a few moments he got caught out.

03:00There was a moment in the first half that he was very slow in tracking back,

03:03and he left Santi Bueno isolated.

03:05I was a bit disappointed with his lack of desire, really, to get back in.

03:11I don't think he's a player that lacks that in general,

03:12but in that particular moment, he did.

03:15So the 1v1 defending actually wasn't a major concern.

03:18It was more his in-possession stuff on this occasion.

03:20Going forward, he did offer a little bit of a threat at times,

03:23but the amount of times he lost the ball,

03:25the stats show he lost possession 17 times over the 90 minutes.

03:30He gave the ball away so often in that second half.

03:32And on two occasions, he gave the ball directly to a Palace player,

03:38allowing them a break in Wolves' half with an overload of men as well.

03:43And Wolves were close to conceding on a few occasions

03:46directly because of Nelson Samedo's poor passing.

03:50That's how I spoke about with Lamina coming on

03:54when Wolves were 1-0 down and the Wolves were all over the place.

03:56Samedo, unfortunately, played a big part in that.

03:59I don't know whether it was the atmosphere,

04:01with Wolves fans booing every chance that Palace got.

04:04It was the fact that Wolves were losing again.

04:06Whatever it is, something got to him.

04:08And he was so erratic in possession, so bad at giving the ball away,

04:13and put Wolves under more pressure rather than doing the opposite.

04:16And it's a shame, really, because I do think he's a very good player.

04:19He's much better than that,

04:20but that was a performance definitely to forget for Nelson Samedo.

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