Saturday 31 March 2018

Nine-man Wolves beat Middlesbrough to stay six points clear at top

Rúben Neves and Matt Doherty were sent off as Wolves lost their tempers on Teesside but even the reduction to nine men failed to prevent Nuno Espírito Santo’s side from extending an apparently unassailable lead at the top of the Championship.

While three wins would guarantee Wolves promotion, Tony Pulis’s Middlesbrough cling to sixth place on goal difference. If they are to reach, let alone win, the play-offs, a team increasingly built around the attacking talents of Adama Traoré will need to be rather more ruthless than this. Although the largely isolated Patrick Bamford registered his ninth goal in seven games with a brilliant 94th-minute volley, it was too little too late.

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2GpDvOU

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