Jonny Drury joins Liam Keen to chat about Wolves' latest success; a 3-0 win against newly-relegated Leicester means that Wolves have now won six games in a row in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1970.
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00:00like you say there, a routine Premier League win,
00:02seen miles away just two or three months ago.
00:06And it shows the job that Vitor Pereira has kind of done.
00:10And it maybe shows the difference in certain individual players.
00:15Obviously, we'll come on to that now and talk about the individual players.
00:18But one is, you could arguably say it's Jose Sarr,
00:20someone earlier in the season who we thought arguably
00:23maybe might not play for Wolves.
00:24I know he's linked with the move away last year
00:26with Sam Johnston coming into the club.
00:28But the way he's stepped up and just the impact that he's made,
00:33you know, other players, it's usually forward players, isn't it,
00:36that grab the headlines.
00:37But for him to do what he's done, you know, and have his say in this
00:41just shows how much of a team effort it is at the moment
00:43for Wolves in this incredible run.
00:46Yeah, definitely.
00:47And to be honest, I was kind of tempted to,
00:49I don't know if this is unprecedented or if we have done this
00:51on the show before, I was tempted to do six up and zero down this week.
00:55But I thought let's be a little bit more objective.
00:58Let's have a couple of downs in there.
01:00We've got four Rubs and Jose Sarr is one of them.
01:03And maybe a surprise that we start with him.
01:05But I wanted to start with him really for the reasons you've just said,
01:08but also to get a very quick dig in about VAR.
01:11Before I talk about Jose Sarr, for me, that's never a penalty.
01:16In the press box, it was almost unanimous with my colleagues,
01:19chatting to them there, a lot of fans responding
01:21that were all watching replays.
01:23It took, I saw one very quick replay, spent 20 seconds looking at it,
01:27if that, and I, in my opinion, it's all subjective, of course,
01:31but in my opinion, I thought it was very clearly not a penalty.
01:34Vardy with a very, very intelligent, Vardy running behind the defence
01:37and a lovely pass to find him.
01:39Darkham's charging out.
01:41He's going to make a mistake if he makes contact with him,
01:44but he slides in, doesn't make any contact with Vardy at all.
01:47Vardy jumped over him and throws his leg into him and goes down.
01:50It looked very clearly like it wasn't a penalty.
01:52So for VAR, by the way, for the referee to give that,
01:56I've got no complaints.
01:57In real time, it looked like a penalty,
01:58but for VAR not to overturn it, I think is really quite poor.
02:03That's a quick dig because we were talking off air before we started.
02:07Neither of us fans of VAR,
02:08and I've been very, very consistent on that.
02:10But fortunately, justice was served.
02:12Jose Sarr makes a fantastic save.
02:15Dante's right, strong save.
02:16Not the best penalty in the world, but certainly not a terrible one.
02:20And the goalkeeper makes a really, really strong save.
02:22And justice, as I say, was served for a penalty
02:24that I didn't think should have been that at all.
02:26But look, he's come back into the team.
02:27He didn't play against United, getting that back injury.
02:31And it's a difficult decision, really, for Bentley not to keep his place
02:34because he's done relatively well.
02:35But Sarr's the number one.
02:36Vito Pereira, I think, deserves credit probably for sticking by his guns,
02:40sticking by his number one, keeping him in the team.
02:43And the goalkeeper, look, he didn't have a lot to do,
02:45but he makes the penalty save.
02:46He commands his box well.
02:48He gives the Vardy a little bit of stick after making the save as well,
02:51which Wolves fans appreciate.
02:52And Sarr, who has had a very, as you mentioned there,
02:55interesting season with ups and downs,
02:59a lot more ups since Vito's come in than earlier in the season.
03:03It was a good moment for him.
03:04And I meant Wolves retained under the clean sheet,
03:07which has been one of the saving graces under Vito Pereira
03:10since he arrived in December.