Wolves fell to a 2-1 defeat against Fulham on Tuesday night, and Santiago Bueno didn’t have a good evening at Molineux.
The Uruguay international started in the middle of the backline for Wolves, with Emmanuel Agbadou still unavailable due to injury.
He rather needed a strong performance at Molineux.
But Bueno had a pretty torrid time going up against Rodrigo Muniz, whose physicality was too much at times for the Wolves defender.
Muniz scored Fulham’s second goal, and Bueno was then withdrawn towards the end by Pablo Sarabia.
After the game, Andy Thompson gave some thoughts about Bueno and believes there is one thing that he has got to learn after his showdown with Muniz.
Wolves star Santiago Bueno told to stop trying to win every ball
Thompson was left unimpressed watching Bueno against Fulham, and really felt he struggled up against Muniz.
And there was one thing in particular that Bueno did, and it’s something he’s noticed several times, that Thompson believes he needs to cut out of his game.
He said on Matchday Live Extra: “I just think Muniz caused us massive problems. Especially to Santi.
“He was just trying to wrestle with him all the time. He was never going to win that battle, he was never going to win and the way he wanted to overcome him.
“He just basically rolled him round for the first goal, but he did it throughout the game while he was on.
“Agbadou, would he have done better? Possibly yes. It would have been more of a contest. Santi’s got to learn not to think he can win every ball. You can’t win every ball.”
Following his display at Fulham, Vitor Pereira may well consider dropping Bueno with new signing Nasser Djiga waiting in the wings for his first start.
What Gary O’Neil said about Santiago Bueno still rings true
The jury is very much still out on Bueno at Wolves.
One of the big criticisms of him has been his lack of physicality and athleticism, and what Gary O’Neil said about Bueno not long before his sacking arguably still rings true.
He said: “It’s not a group that’s built to deal with physical play.
“You know, Santi Bueno, good centre-back, but not a big physical strong one. We lost Yerson, we lost Max – being competitive in those areas is a challenge for us.”
Bueno does often try to engage forwards when perhaps there isn’t a need to, and perhaps if he’d held his position, he might have been able to get back and make a block on Ryan Sessegnon to prevent Fulham’s first goal from happening.