Wolves were condemned to yet another Premier League defeat as an Ipswich late winner saw the Old Gold lose 2-1.
Wolves’ crisis worsen in a shocking all-round display at Molineux. After a comical Matt Doherty own goal, Matheus Cunha managed to level the scoreline in the second half.
Yet, in added time, more dire defending from Wolves saw Jake Taylor pop up from a corner to condemn the hosts to a fourth successive defeat.
Tempers flared at full-time with Rayan Ait-Nouri involved in a brawl which saw him sent off.
Fans have once again called for O’Neil to be sacked with Premier League survival looking bleaker by the day.
Yet, despite another defeat, the Wolves manager refused to take responsibility for the club’s awful set-piece defending which led to the winner.
Gary O’Neil refused to take responsibility for Ipswich’s winner after Wolves conceded from yet another set-piece
At set-pieces, Wolves are the worst team in Europe’s top five leagues. The club has struggled throughout the campaign to defend from dead balls.
After the defeat to Brentford, set-piece coach Jack Wilson was sacked by Wolves but this has not halted the issue.
Against Ipswich, the Old Gold’s inability to mark a man at the back post was on full show once again as Taylor had all the time in the world to nod in the winner with seconds remaining.
Despite this being an ongoing issue throughout the season, O’Neil refused to take the blame for the dire defending which led to the winner.
He told Match of the Day: “That is the group performing at maximum today. Until we can defend our goal then we are going to struggle. The emotion affects a lot.
“We started the game well and then Ipswich scored a goal they will never score against another Premier League team. I saw Delap doing that at youth level bashing people out of the way and it can’t happen at this level.
“I will take the set-piece goal as my fault, if people are stood in the right place, but they weren’t.”
Gary O’Neil needs to take responsibility for Wolves’ poor form
To have only picked up three Premier League wins from 26 games is embarrassing and as much as Fosun are to blame for the overarching situation, O’Neil has to take some responsibility for the performance of the team.
Wolves have been dire at set-piece throughout the campaign and this has shown no signs of changing.
If the players are not listening to O’Neil in regards to defending set-pieces then it is an extremely troubling situation.
Whether the Englishman can survive this match is another question but if the issue regarding Wolves’ defending cannot be sorted then the club are as good as down.