Soccer-Neves goal gives Wolves 2-1 victory at Brentford

(Reuters) -Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Ruben Neves scored a late purpose to seal a 2-1 win at Brentford in Saturday’s Premier League match which was briefly suspended because of safety causes.

Portugal worldwide Neves struck within the 78th minute, firing house from 20 yards out following an excellent workforce effort because the guests fought again after Joao Moutinho’s opener was cancelled out by Brentford’s Ivan Toney.

The end result prolonged Wolves’ unbeaten run to 6 video games in all competitions, with Bruno Lage’s eighth-placed workforce wanting robust of their pursuit of European qualification.

“It was an excellent begin of the 12 months, three wins within the Premier League and one win within the (FA) Cup and we got here with the precise mentality,” Lage advised the BBC.

“So three factors, good targets and I believe we managed the sport with the ball that’s why I’m completely happy at present with my boys.”

Earlier, the groups performed out a chronic first-half after a drone hovering above the Brentford Group Stadium paused the match for 19 minutes.

Wolves, lacking talisman Raul Jimenez by means of harm, couldn’t convert their probabilities within the first half however had a stable begin after the break as Moutinho struck within the forty eighth minute.

The 35-year-old performed a intelligent one-two with Nelson Semedo on the sting of the field earlier than smashing the ball into the underside nook with the skin of his foot.

Brentford responded within the 71st minute with Toney firing in a volley from Bryan Mbeumo’s free-kick, however they’d no reply to Neves’ purpose.

Wolves virtually added a 3rd purpose in stoppage time when substitute Adama Traore thrashed the ball in on the close to put up, however his effort was dominated out for offside following a VAR test.

The sport ended with Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank being proven a second yellow card for remonstrating with the referee as his promoted workforce slumped to their fourth successive league defeat.

“That was fairly a loopy recreation. I believe if we have a look at the soccer, we began improbable till the break with the drone and the 2 concussion issues,” Frank stated, referring to the conflict of heads between Mathias Jensen and Rico Henry within the first half.

“I believe we had been good, positively the most effective workforce on the pitch. Aggressive, good on the break, however after that Wolves had been higher.

“We 100% didn’t need to lose in any respect, it’s at the very least a draw… We’re struggling to get factors on this second in time however the excellent news is that they’re good performances.”

(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in BengaluruEditing by Christian Radnedge)