Wolves signing Nasser Djiga “learning” as potential first team chance looms..
Vitor Pereira says deadline day signing Nasser Djiga is “learning” exactly what is required of him in the Wolves defence.
Djiga, who arrived from Red Star Belgrade earlier this month, is still awaiting his debut in England after featuring as an unused substitute in the past two games.
The Burkina Faso international could have an opportunity to break into the first team frame over the upcoming games after Emmanuel Agbadou suffered a hamstring strain in the 2-1 defeat against Liverpool at Anfield last Saturday.
Although Pereira hasn’t pinpointed an exact time frame on Agbadou’s injury, the Ivorian is expected to be out until around mid-March.
Wolves could replace Hwang by unleashing 18 y/o who’s had a “meteoric rise”
Wolverhampton Wanderers head into their next Premier League contest confident they can upset the AFC Bournemouth apple cart on the road, having been very unlucky to come away from their last clash at Anfield empty-handed.
Indeed, Vitor Pereira’s Old Gold ended up accumulating a mightily impressive 16 shots on goal against Arne Slot’s complacent Reds, with Matheus Cunha unfortunately the only goalscorer in the narrow 2-1 loss.
Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Matheus Cunha in action with Liverpool’s Wataru Endo
When Cunha isn’t sparkling for his still relegation-threatened outfit, there isn’t too much firepower in the rest of the striker spots, with both Jorgen Strand Larsen and Hwang Hee-Chan currently out injured.
Even when the latter of those two names is fit, he isn’t always firing on all cylinders, as the South Korean suffers from a lack of confidence in front of goal whilst the Brazilian seemingly always has that midas touch.
Hwang’s woes in front of goal
It has been another stop-start season for the 29-year-old at Molineux so far, with 55 days of action missed by the injury-prone number 11 to date due to stays in the Wolves treatment room.
Whilst Pereira has confirmed he could be back to full fitness soon, his drab goalscoring form when he has been available means he is unlikely to break back into the starting lineup anyway.
