Liam Keen is joined by Jonny Drury to chat about the game that might have just saved Wolves from the drop.
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00:00Let's finish on a couple of big positives. At times this season, Wolves have been questioned defensively.
00:06But a superb performance on Saturday. There has been superb performances of late.
00:11At the heart of that, the key to our idea has been Totti Gomez, someone who's been there for quite a while,
00:16really well-liked at Wolves, and another superb defensive display on Saturday.
00:24Vitor Pereira summed it up perfectly after the game. He said,
00:28Totti is an animal. And I don't need to say much more than that. I mean,
00:34for the purposes of the show, I will. But he's a fantastic defender. He's starting to get a
00:39little bit of the love now as well. The fans have got some chants for him, giving him public support.
00:46There's lots of support for him out there when previously in the season. Understandably so,
00:50at times he was getting a lot of flack. It didn't really work for him in a back four.
00:55He struggled. He had a bad start to the season. But in this back five, on that left-hand side,
00:59where he can move over into the left-back positions quite regularly with the way Wolves play,
01:04he's been really impressive. It's similar to last week, really, when we spoke about the Everton game,
01:10that you could talk about Doc and how well he's done. Agbidu has been a fantastic signing.
01:15But for me, out of all of them, and particularly against Southampton,
01:20it was Totti Gomez that stood out. The errors and mistakes have been almost completely cut out.
01:26He's very, very cool, calm and collected. He's quick. He's athletic. He mops up danger,
01:32sniffs out danger. And I think he's so important to the balance of that defense
01:38that Wolves have to address bringing another player in that can play on that left side in
01:42the summer. Because we saw when Totti Gomez was injured around Christmas and New Year time,
01:47how they struggled to replace him. Agbidu did a good enough job on that left side,
01:51but he's much better in the center of that back three. And Totti Gomez brings so much
01:56on that left side. His athleticism is so, so impressive. And it's so difficult to play
02:00against. He's good in the air. He's good in the tackle. He's good carrying the ball out.
02:05Again, Vito Pereira spoke before the game about wanting Doc and Totti on the right and left side
02:11of that back three to be players that break the lines as well, carry the ball forward,
02:16maybe get some crosses in from deep positions. And Totti did that on several occasions against
02:20Southampton and actually caused some problems. He's able to help spark attacks as well as
02:27keep Wolves solid in defense. And so far, I think he's been fantastic. After such a bad start to the
02:33season, he's going in the right direction now under Vito Pereira and he has to be in contention.
02:42He hasn't got it for this international break, but he's got to be in contention
02:46for getting a recall to the Portugal squad at some point because he's been fantastic.