Wolves could soon break a horrendous record club record as their winless Premier League start continues.
Wolves are in disarray. The club are yet to win a game in the Premier League this season and currently sits bottom of the table with just three points.
Gary O’Neil has failed to fix the club’s declining form from the end of the previous campaign, with the Old Gold now just producing one win in 20 league games.
Fingers are now being pointed towards the Wolves manager as many of the Molineux crowd chanted their frustrations towards O’Neil against Crystal Palace.
Now, ahead of their upcoming tie against fellow strugglers Southampton, another winless game would push Wolves closer to another unwanted record.
Failure to beat Southampton would result in Wolves’ second worst winless start to a campaign ever
Wolves’ match against Southampton is the definition of a must-win game on Saturday. The Saints sit one place above the Old Gold and only achieved their first victory of the season on Saturday.
Therefore, up against arguably one of the league’s weakest opponents, it could be O’Neil’s last chance to prove he is up to the challenge.
Anything less than a win could be disastrous with the club already four points away from safety.
However, on top of this, another winless game would leave them with their second-longest winless start to a league campaign at 11 games.
This is eerily close to Wolves’ all-time winless start to a league campaign which happened in the 1983/84 season after they failed to win any of their first 14 matches.
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Gary O’Neil may not survive another Wolves winless match
To put it bluntly, it is nothing short of a miracle that O’Neil is still in a job. The Wolves manager has overseen plenty of awful results now, with performances barely picking up since the end of the ‘tough fixtures’.
Unlike many of the teams around the Old Gold, Wolves are not new to the division, the club is full of experienced Premier League players with the Molineux side now in their seventh consecutive season in the top flight.
Yet, there is little evidence of this on the pitch, with many games being played out like Wolves are a newly-promoted team.
While O’Neil is not completely to blame for the current situation, the manager is always the first to fall when things go badly.