The news that Yerson Mosquera will miss the remainder of the season due to injury has shocked Wolves supporters. The Colombian player suffered a severe injury to his knee during the loss to Aston Villa.
Fans are devastated to learn that Mosquera suffered damage to both his MCL and ACL after leaving the field on a stretcher.
Mosquera, who had been among Wolves’ finest players in the first few weeks of the new season, should be deeply disappointed.
Wolves will now attempt to function without him while he embarks on his protracted road to recovery.
There has been a lot of talk about how Wolves should now proceed – and it may well be that a formation change now makes a lot of sense.
O’Neil should now consider three-man defence and wing-backs for WolvesSo far this season, Wolves have been leaky at the back.
It is 14 goals conceded in just five Premier League games so far, and fans have been concerned about how shaky the defence has looked.
That said, Mosquera and Craig Dawson had started to look decent as a pairing.
But Mosquera is now unavailable for the foreseeable, and this might be the thing that prompts Gary O’Neil to revert to a back three.
He has lost his best defender, and he might just feel that playing Dawson, Santiago Bueno and Toti Gomes gives more protection.
Arguably, setting up in this way would also get the best out of Nelson Semedo and Rayan Ait-Nouri in particular.
Ait-Nouri has not started the new season well, and is quite clearly more comfortable as a wing-back.
This would not be without risk, of course. Playing all three centre-backs at once could eventually become a concern fitness-wise. But it’s Wolves’ bread and butter, and has been for number of years, and the situation is starting to call for it.
It worked out for O’Neil last seasonWolves supporters witnessed O’Neil play a back four at first during the previous season before switching to a back three and wing-backs.
When Manchester City visited Molineux at the end of September, he did this. That 2-1 victory for Wolves served as the impetus for the shift.
Once again, it is the end of September, and Wolves are in a situation that is very similar to that of the previous campaign. Despite the fact that it may go against his true desires, switching to a back three could be the answer to the true need to strengthen the defense.
On the board, though, he needs points. Wolves need to start winning ugly immediately and become more results-focused, as Andy Thompson recently stated.
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