The Keen & Judah Show: The boys start 2025 off on a positive note  by discussing Rodrigo Gomes - video Dailymotion

Liam Keen & Nathan Judah break down the good and the bad following Wolves’ 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest at Molineux

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00:00Let's start with a positive. Let's start with a positive. I'll allow you to pick one of the

00:04two players they're up to start with. Buzzing to start with a positive because the rest of

00:08the show is going to be all negative, so that's great. Excellent. Let's get the hopes up first.

00:12Let's go with someone who's been featured a bit more prominently under Vito Herrera as of late.

00:19We saw him make his debut in that first game of the season against Arsenal. I think we both thought

00:23at the time. Very unfortunate to be basically out of the picture after that really,

00:29bar the odd appearance and maybe some fleeting substitute appearances. But I think we saw the

00:35quality that Rodrigo Gomez has got last night on the ball. His work rate is unprecedented.

00:42He will run for you all day long, but he has got some excellent delivery. I think some beautiful

00:47crosses. He had a great shot. It was a really good save close up, but technically it was very

00:53difficult shot to get off and could have quite easily got the equaliser. We might have been

00:58talking about a different story, but just his overall performance, Liam, shows someone that's

01:02got some real promise, not just now, but also in the future for Wolves. An exciting, exciting

01:07prospect and looks like a really good signing. Definitely. You sort of alluded to it there,

01:12but we saw a player in pre-season that was shining out in America, wasn't he? Obviously,

01:16pre-season is pre-season. It's not going to be as intense as the Premier League,

01:20but he did very, very well. We saw a player away at Arsenal on the first game of the season that I

01:26thought did okay. Nothing outstanding. I don't think he was one of the worst performers on the

01:30day by any means going all the way back to August. And he was pretty much bombed out from there.

01:37I don't think Gary Neal was particularly enamoured by what he was seeing. I also think maybe Rodrigo

01:44was slightly unlucky because there were a few, some appearances that he did okay in. He played

01:48really well in the cup away at Brighton, didn't he? Which was again, a lifetime ago. And he didn't

01:54quite get the chances. And he took that chance once Vitor Pereira arrived away at Leicester

02:01in that starting that first game. Then Nuri is back and available again, and he has to bide his

02:06time and be patient. Understandably so, because Brian Nuri, I think is one of the most important

02:10players to this team and the setup that Vitor Pereira and to be fair, Gary Neal wanted to play.

02:15So with that bearing in mind, and he's still only 21 years old, you have to be a little bit

02:21patient, but when those opportunities do arise, you have to take them. And everything we know

02:26and heard about Rodrigo Gomez is he's a good professional. He's good behind the scenes.

02:32He's not someone that's going to kick up a fuss. And it seems that he's clearly knuckled down

02:36and prepared himself for that next chance. And it came probably sooner than he expected with a few

02:41injuries, you know, issues with Samedo and Dawson, all of a sudden he's back in. And I

02:46thought he was very good last night. I really did. I thought he was his best player to be

02:49brutally honest. Energy is the word you use. I think that's a really good one to describe him

02:53full of energy down that flank up and down brilliantly. But there's a bit of quality at

02:59the end of it as well. That cross for Larson that he should have scored the header was wonderful.

03:03That volley shot that you were talking about excellent technique. I think he was a really,

03:07really dangerous constant threat and caused for us a lot of problems.