Jean-Ricner Bellegarde

Who would you say was a standout against Watford today? So

I had two names in my head and reading the comments of other people afterwards made me question myself because I was originally going to say Bellegarde, but I think he had a decent first half and then faded away a little bit.

But then I've seen other people say that Bellegarde was absolutely terrible watching the same game as me.

So I was a bit confused by that.

with the nature of the performance there wasn't really many standouts in my opinion and the fact we kept a clean sheet i think you probably have to maybe look towards the defense because you can't give it to the easy thing to do is give it to armstrong but you know he he scored a goal there wasn't a massive amount going on he definitely can't give it to minetti because his miss was terrible and just in general he was pretty terrible as well so he's probably looking at the defenders so i'd go trippier because his overlap balls obviously helped with the get us forwards particularly for the goal scoring chance or maybe Krejci that's probably I

Like, I just don't know.

I don't know.

Rodrigo, he might not be match fit to start, but if he was, I've seen some people, it's funny because Rodrigo was getting pelted most weeks for not making the right decision, being, you know, like with his crossing, his shooting, but I've seen a lot of people saying we really miss him and they would rather him be straight back in for Bellegarde.

But Watford did their best to score a couple of own goals in the meantime.

What did you make of the performance as a whole in terms of the collectively? Mosquera coming back into that side as well, so Bellegarde and Saeed on the flanks.

Do you feel that this is an 11-11? Obviously, there's still some people to come back in and fill up as you think it's going to be back in.

There's some better news on the injury front.

It's good enough for this level.

What did you make to Bellegarde yesterday, Al? Because I saw quite a few conflicting opinions on Bellegarde yesterday.

I thought he was quite tricky throughout, probably should have maybe got a goal or at least an assist during the game.

But that's Bellegarde, his inconsistency, isn't it?

Well, I'll sum it up.

There was a bloke behind me as he was attacking the North Bank in the first half.

But they seem to have a very young side or young squad.

Certainly went to two or three of the players they brought on, apart from Bellegarde.

Bellegarde, we've seen before.

And Doyle, who came from Man City, didn't he? He came in on the second half.

He's got a lot of under-21 England caps.

on the bench, I'm sure.

So subs for Wolves are Bellegarde, Chirua, who scored the other day as well, Tommy Doyle, Totti, Jordan James, Conan the Barbarian, Mosquera, Virginia, and super experienced keeper, John Ruddy.

And on the Pompey bench...

It's Bailey, Bilica, Kavuma McQueen, obviously, Kenny, Killip, Maretzi, I think he's the striker, isn't he? Marlon Pack, that's who's rested.

The goal is a prime example because...

If you watch the goal in the build up to it, it is Bellegarde, it gets played around to Bellegarde on the right hand side.

Trippi had rolled inside to create the space to get the pass to him from Ziga.

And then Fer Lopez makes that diagonal run into that right channel.

Ball doesn't come, Bellegarde circulates the ball back around the back four and then it arrives at Krejci.

who hits that diagonal.

And at this point, Fer Lopez makes that little run in behind the centre-back again.

In the end, he gets dragged really narrow.

We're still not used to it yet and become the player we know we can be, you know, this season.

just wonder if there's a bit of mistrust in terms of that bolton game like he did provide the assist for the for bellegarde's goal but at the same time defensively he was poor and got caught you know a couple of times i think at the back and i just wonder if he does get the shirt back against portsmouth and they do have a poor game i feel like that would maybe change the balance and maybe have totti in there going forward but I don't know.

I don't know which way he's going to go.

You know, the fact that he said that Totti is Totti's shirt to lose, like did he, Peixoto could argue that he didn't lose it.

We're not great unless it's, I know we're going to come on to the Burnley game, unless it's a little two-pass move to catch someone on the break or I can't.

The creche to Bellegarde, that's probably pretty quick as well.

There's not much sustained possession resulting in chances, which is slightly worrying because we did see that at the start of the season a little bit more.

You think the West Brom game as well, we were peppering them constantly and that, whether they've just forgotten over the break the rhythm they were in, I don't know, but...

I think you both mentioned the opportunities and the chances that Wolves had.

I thought we were really...

Poor first half, but as soon as we got that equaliser through Bellegarde, it was a really nice finish, to be fair.

Nice ball from Krejci, probably the only half-decent thing he did, I think.