Three days on from exposing Chelsea’s defensive frailties in a 2-1 Christmas Eve success, Wolves were the beneficiaries of a disastrous one-man
display from Brentford defender Nathan Collins, who had a direct hand in two of the visitors’ four goals on Wednesday night.
Hwang Hee-chan and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde both capitalised on misplaced passes from Collins, who also missed a glorious chance to reduce the deficit with a
close-range header, and a ruthless Wolves unit were further indebted to another Hwang strike and early Mario Lemina header in a capital crushing.
While Wolves were gifted a pair of goals on a silver platter, O’Neil still wanted to highlight his side’s clinical nature on an evening where the West Midlands crop shot up to 11th in
the Premier League table, level on points with both Chelsea and Bournemouth, albeit having played a game more than the latter.
Success at the Gtech Community Stadium also saw Wolves march to back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time this season, but not since the days of Bruno Lage in January
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2022 have the hosts triumphed in three top-flight fixtures on the bounce, and they have gone winless and scoreless in their last four games at the end of the calendar year.
Not since a 3-1 beating of Tottenham Hotspur in 2018 have Wolves come up trumps in their year-end performance, but O’Neil’s current crop
of players have a prime opportunity to snap that sequence at Molineux, where none of their last seven Premier League games have ended in defeat.
