DROUGHT GOES ON

Even when Traore wins the game he still doesn’t score the goal!

ADAMA TRAORE’S goal torment continues but you can’t help feeling sympathy that his 14-month blank spell wasn’t finally smashed.

Leeds keeper Illan Meslier will reluctantly have an own goal against his name but it’s tough on Wolves’ flying winger.

The Spain international must have thought his barren run had ended in the 64th minute when he thumped the ball goalwards from 20 yards and beat the full-stretch Meslier.

But his shot struck the underside of the crossbar, bounced down and hit the French keeper on the back and rolled into the net.

Poor Traore was left cursing his luck and his goal drought which stretches back to a 3-2 win over Manchester City just after Christmas 2019.

It gave Wolves the winner in this ding-dong game although Leeds had good right to be cursing their luck as well.

Traore’s strike came in a switch of play straight to the other end after Patrick Bamford’s close-range power header was superbly saved by Rui Patricio.

Within seconds of thinking they’d taken the lead, Marcelo Bielsa’s men were floored by Meslier’s unwitting intervention.

Things were to get worse for the visitors – Bamford slamming home a wonderful left-foot shot only to be ruled offside by a whisker.

Both sides might have drawn a blank going in at half-time, but it wasn’t for the lack of trying.

There were chances for both sides in an entertaining opening 45 minutes with, arguably, the best one falling to the visitors when Liam Cooper should have done better with a header in the 21st minute.

The Leeds skipper got himself into a great position but made weak contact with a Raphina freekick just eight yards out and only steered it straight at Patricio.

At the other end it was the inform Pedro Neto who was causing most of the problems and twice it took Meslier to save them.

Both efforts were from distance – the first a simple enough block but the second forcing the French keeper to use every inch of his 6ft 5in frame to make an acrobatic flying tip-over for a corner.

And twice he was forced to beat away angled close-range efforts from Nelson Semedo as Wolves tried to make the breakthrough.

Opposite number Patricio also survived a scary moment when a shot from Mateusz Klich caught him by surprise, striking the foot of the post and bouncing away off the keeper’s back.

Neto continued where he’d left off after the break carving his way into the box again, but his shot flew just high and wide of the angle when he might have been better feeding it across to the unmarked Willian Jose.