JOSE SA broke Nottingham Forest’s hearts …. single handed!
Wolves’ courageous Portuguese ‘keeper has been playing with a broken wrist since the second game of the season in August.
Jose Sa was Wolves’ hero in their 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest
The goalie saved a late penalty to deny Forest a point
He sustained the damage saving Aleksandar Mitrovic’s late penalty for the visitors to earn his side a 0-0 draw and a crucial point at Fulham – but has bravely soldiered on since then.
Here he went one better as he hurled himself to his left to keep out Brennan Johnson’s penalty, 11 minutes from the end to make sure his side seized all three points.
And Wolves fans rubbed it in as they taunted Forest with chants of: ‘One hand, he’s only got one hand!’
Earlier Ruben Neves had scored from the opposite spot after a VAR check spotted Adama Traore’s shot had struck Harry Toffolo’s arm.
Ref Thomas Bramall was urged to judge for himself on the pitchside monitor and to Steve Cooper’s fury, he awarded Wolves the penalty.
Neves kept his cool to crash an unstoppable right foot shot beyond Dean Henderson to record his sixth successful penalty out of six in the Premier League.
Amazingly that was Wolves’ first goal in the second half of a match this season at the 10th attempt.
It was also enough to ease them out of the relegation zone after Leicester City’s goalless draw with Crystal Palace earlier in the day.
Forest couldn’t believe it as Brennan Johnson fluffed his lines from the spot
Ruben Neves scored the only goal as Wolves picked up a vital win
Neves made sure his own penalty was well on target
Wolves will now look to appoint a new boss after sacking Bruno Lage
It was a sweet moment for interim boss and lifelong Wolves fan Steve Davis who marked his first game in charge at Molineux with a crucial win.
His side came close to breaking the deadlock before the break when Max Kilman’s header crashed off the post with Henderson beaten.
Forest meanwhile will kick themselves for fluffing their big chance near the end.
Morgan Gibbs-White’s corner skimmed off Diego Costa’s head and seemed to catch Adama Traore’s arm.
However the real offence had taken place deep in the box as Matheus Nunes recklessly wrestled Ryan Yates to the ground.
Again VAR intervened and ref Bramall awarded the penalty after watching a rerun of the incident.
However Sa produced his heroics to ensure Wolves clocked up their second win of the season thanks to his ‘handy,’ intervention!
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