MOOY GOES IN FOR THE KILL
Nuno’s boys suffer murder most foul as Aaron makes them pay
WOLVES were left screaming blue Mooyder as Huddersfield sprang a shock to haul themselves off the bottom.
Two-goal Aaron Mooy gave the Terriers the victory they thoroughly deserved to send them shooting up into 14th place in the table.
The big screen was advertising a Molineux Murder Mystery night when Mooy stuck the knife in after six minutes.
Then, with Wolves flickering back to life in desperate pursuit of an equaliser, the Aussie midfielder coshed them over the head just for good measure with a 73rd-minute clincher.
It was grisly viewing for Wolves fans and boss Nuno Espirito Santo who hadn’t been expecting to play the role of victims – certainly not at the hands of Mooy.
He hadn’t scored so far this season – not that surprising given that David Wagner’s men had only hit the net six times prior to this, the lowest tally in the division.
Mooy was at the centre of everything after blasting his side into an early lead with a cracking goal.
He ripped his first time shot into the bottom of the net after a brilliant move had exposed Wolves down their right flank. Philip Billing shunted a crisp pass into the path of Erik Durm, who cut a low cross back towards the edge of the area where the Aussie international was lurking to drill a right-foot shot beyond Rui Patricio.
While only one goal separated the two sides, Wolves were always in with a chance.
Worry
It was Mooy who killed them off after 73 minutes, bending a late free-kick around the wall and squeezing it in between Patricio and his left-hand post.
It was no more than Wagner’s men deserved and that’s what should worry Nuno when he does his post-mortem.
That’s just one point from the last available 15 for his side who came into the division with all guns blazing.
It’s hardly the time to press the panic button, but this was a very off-colour display from Nuno’s men and that’s no disrespect to Huddersfield, who made it look that way.
On occasions their forceful approach didn’t meet with the approval of the home fans – or referee Kevin Friend.
But it served its purpose and, welded to some neat interplay, managed to throw a number of the Wolves players out of their stride.
Tommy Smith was booked for a crunching tackle which sent Helder Costa sprawling. Jonathan Hogg was also yellow carded.
Huddersfield pressed for a second – Steve Mounie heading straight at Patricio followed by Terence Kongolo doing exactly the same thing shortly before the break.
It was all too much for Nuno, who made a double substitution at half-time, bringing on teenager Morgan Gibbs-White and the pacey Adama Traore.
Wolves had their moments, with Matt Doherty having a header cleared off the line and Raul Jimenez going so close with a
57th-minute header which was brilliantly cleared by Billing, the technology revealing the ball was
1.8cm from crossing the line completely.
After that, Mooy decided enough was enough and struck to clinch all three points.