NUNO IS FULL OF PRAISE FOR TEAM ESPIRITO

GROUP K

TWO goals in four minutes saw Wolves ruin a kids’ party – but this win was hardly child’s play.

Diogo Jota was sent off late on and Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo was quick to praise his team’s resolve to get over the line.

The Molineux men were trailing to Andraz Sporar’s early goal and struggling to make headway with almost an hour gone when Romain Saiss and Raul Jimenez completed a brilliant comeback.

The behind-closeddoors Europa League match attracted a crowd of 20,333 – almost all of them under 14 years of age and watching for free. The multitude of shrill-voiced youngsters whipped up an atmosphere but it was more Welcome to McDonald’s than Welcome to Hell.

Just a couple of hundred Wolves fans were allowed in following UEFA punishing Bratislava for racist chants.

Wolves were off key in the early stages and Nuno said: “First half not so good – second half very, very good.

“We’re happy and I’m happy for our 200 fans here but we will have to analyse why we played that way costly.

But on 59th minutes Saiss’s shot hit defender Myenty Abena and gave keeper Dominik Greif no chance.

The Slovakians barely had time to dust themselves down when Jimenez was shoved in the penalty area and converted the resulting spot-kick. Jota’s dismissal came on 87 minutes for a second yellow card 73 seconds after his first.

WOLVES:

BRATISLAVA:

REF: first half. It was noisy and the children enjoyed themselves on the back of some people doing something wrong, so I think that sends a good message out.”

Wolves were behind on 11 minutes when the tricky Sporar’s low shot took a slight deflection of Conor Coady on its way into the net.

The few chances the visitors created were wasted, with Morgan GibbsWhite’s miss from six yards looking like it might be particularly

LFMartinelli 32, Pepe 80, 90

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