Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Fulham 1: match report
Read a full match report of the Premier League game between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham at Molineux on Saturday April 23, 2011.
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LIVE
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WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
1 - 1
FT
FULHAM
Saturday, April 23 15:00
Premier League
Molineux
Fletcher (22)
(HT 1-0)
ATT: 28,825
Andrew Johnson (80)
Flying arrow: Steven Fletcher, the Wolverhampton Wanderers forward, leaped high above the Fulham defence to head his side into the lead at Molineux on Saturday Photo: PA
By Ian Bayley at Molineux 5:00PM BST 23 Apr 2011
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Fulham manager Mark Hughes was involved in a colourful touchline cameo that had him banished to the stands for the final half-hour of a feisty encounter at Molineux. But Hughes still had more reason to smile than counterpart Mick McCarthy, who had victory snatched from his grasp.
Hughes had the satisfaction of watching his third and final substitution, striker Andy Johnson, equalise 10 minutes from time with his first touch of the ball and less than a minute after replacing Clint Dempsey.
By then the manager had been in the stand for 20 minutes after a fit of pique in keeping with a confrontational contest. Hughes, angered when referee Michael Oliver cautioned defender Brede Hangeland for a foul on Steven Fletcher, lashed out at a water bottle. Surprisingly for someone who scored 179 goals in his playing career, Hughes missed his target twice before making partial contact at the third attempt.
He was then dismissed by referee Michael Oliver after speaking out of turn to the fourth official. Hughes was able to joke about the incident, his anger doubtless sated by Johnson’s equaliser.
“I was disappointed because I felt Brede had won the ball. The referee interpreted it in a different way and saw fit to book my player,” Hughes said. “That’s why I reacted. The fourth official played a part in my dismissal, probably for missing the bottle three times. So it was poor play from my point of view.”
Johnson had no such problems with his aim. The striker drilled home from 15 yards after Hangeland’s long punt forward fell neatly into the forward’s path.
It was a blow for Wolves, who were on course to climb out of the bottom three thanks to Steven Fletcher’s first-half header, his eighth goal of the season.
They remain deep in relegation trouble, though at least McCarthy had the consolation of seeing his side shore up defensively after conceding 11 goals in their previous four games. “Ten minutes is a long time in football,” he said. “We defended well but I was disappointed with the way we conceded.
“Every point is important. There were other sides who would have been beaten in that game having conceded, and we didn’t. We have now got five huge, great games to play.”
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