Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Bolton Wanderers - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to bounce backmost from a decision astatine the play connected their instrumentality from the agelong planetary break, Wolverhampton Wanderers volition invited Bolton Wanderers to Molineux Stadium connected Tuesday.

The hosts dropped to 5th spot successful the Championship table aft losing connected Saturday, portion their visitors besides mislaid to autumn to 17th.

Match preview

Wolverhampton Wanderers instrumentality to enactment astatine Molineux Stadium connected Tuesday aiming to bounce backmost to winning ways successful the Championship aft a setback past clip out.

In their archetypal play aft Championship relegation, and aiming for an contiguous instrumentality to the apical formation nether the caller absorption of Cesar Peixoto, they headed into the archetypal interruption of the play connected 14 points from their archetypal 7 outings, having won 4 and lone mislaid 1 of those.

That culminated successful 1-0 wins implicit Sheffield United and rivals West Bromwich Albion, either broadside of an EFL Cup defeat, but aft 3 weeks off, they were incapable to marque it 3 consecutive league wins astatine the weekend.

Peixoto's men visited chap promotion-chasers Middlesbrough and near empty-handed, falling to a 1-0 decision arsenic Will Lankshear's extremity connected the hr people made the lone quality betwixt the teams.

Now sat fifth, but lone trailing 3rd spot by 2 points and fourth-placed Middlesbrough by 4 with a crippled successful manus connected each squad successful the apical half, Wolves volition anticipation to bounce backmost astatine the play and determination backmost wrong touching region of the automatic promotion spots.

Their visitors volition besides acceptable retired to instrumentality to winning successful midweek having suffered defeats either broadside of the break.

Also successful their archetypal play backmost successful the Championship aft winning promotion past clip around, Bolton Wanderers endured a pugnacious aboriginal spell but went into the interruption connected 10 points from 8 matches acknowledgment to back-to-back wins implicit Cardiff City and Norwich City to extremity a tally of 4 consecutive losses.

The second of those ended successful a 4-3 triumph, marking the Trotters' archetypal distant league triumph of the play but taking their tally to 10 goals conceded successful 4 games connected the road, earlier they hosted Stoke City connected their instrumentality to enactment aft 3 weeks distant connected Saturday.

The visitors were reduced to 10 men successful the 20th minute, but Steven Schumacher's broadside inactive fell 2-0 down to goals from Lamine Cisse and Ben Wilmot, and Theo Bair's 92nd-minute extremity came excessively precocious to spark a comeback.

Now sat 17th and with conscionable a three-point cushion implicit the relegation zone, Bolton Wanderers look the pugnacious task of a travel to Molineux Stadium with the hopes of upsetting the newly-relegated hosts and climbing backmost distant from the bottommost three.

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Team News

Wolverhampton Wanderers stay without the injured duo of defender Yerson Mosquera and attacker Raul Jimenez.

In the lack of Jimenez, Adam Armstrong should proceed to pb the line, with Rodrigo Gomes and Mateus Mane apt to support their places connected the wings.

Fer Lopez, meanwhile, whitethorn instrumentality from the outset to implicit the attacking unit, having scored 4 goals successful 8 league games this term, possibly leaving 2 midfield spots for Tommy Doyle, Andre, Marshall Munetsi, Jordan James and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde.

Bolton Wanderers are incapable to telephone connected defender Chris Forino-Joseph, who has missed the past 3 games done wounded aft starting each lucifer successful 2026-27 anterior to that.

Sam Dalby volition proceed to pb their attack, portion winger Thierry Gale has arguably been the information antheral this play and scored 5 goals successful 3 caps for Barbados implicit the planetary break.

In Forino-Joseph's absence, Eoin Toal should again articulation Ben Davis successful the mediate of a backmost four, portion Josh Sheehan is simply a mainstay successful the motor room.

Wolverhampton Wanderers imaginable starting lineup:

Sa; Trippier, Djiga, Toti, Bueno; Andre, Munetsi; Gomes, Lopez, Mane; Armstrong

Bolton Wanderers imaginable starting lineup:

Bazunu; Larrazabal, Toal, Davies, Conway; Sheehan, Ethan Erhahon; Iling Junior, Rodrigues, Gale; Dalby

We say: Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 Bolton Wanderers

Aside from a 4-0 nonaccomplishment to Millwall, Bolton Wanderers person shown their resilience to support games choky this season, but they person struggled defensively connected the roadworthy and whitethorn deficiency the prime to lucifer the hosts.

We fancy Wolves to bounce backmost to winning ways connected location turf.

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