A section of Wolves’ fans have taken to Twitter to express their delight after their team registered a 1-1 draw in a pre-season friendly with Dutch club Ajax.
The Eredivisie outfit visited Walsall’s ground to participate in a match with the newly-promoted club, who went behind before Ruben Neves netted a penalty in the second half, much to the team’s relief.
The Match Report as Wolves continued their unbeaten start to pre-season against @AFCAjax at the Banks's Stadium.
— Wolves (@Wolves) July 19, 2018
The Molineux-based club have had an unbeaten start to their pre-season preparations, and they will now wait in trepidation for the upcoming Premier League season after making some top-quality signings this summer, including goalkeeper Rui Patricio from Sporting CP.
This is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets from Wolves’ supporters:
https://twitter.com/shellwwfcsankey/status/1020005020270579718
Best player so far this preseason ???
— Hobbs FC (@PortuWolves) July 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/__WolvesAyWe__/status/1019977701027872770
https://twitter.com/Darkowl1rush/status/1019958838219497473
More positive from Wolves than from Ajax. Some beautiful balls/passes in there. We dominated in 2nd half.
— Jane Gough (@jane_janegough) July 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/MasendanVA/status/1019959071678615554
Good run out played well overall especially with Ajax having big names on pitch
— Chris Williams (@iamchriswill85) July 19, 2018
OPINION
Any more displays like this one against Ajax and Wolves’ fans are going to be feeling extremely confident that they can avoid the drop next season. Ajax put out a strong team, which has been recognised by the supporters, and the team have done well to grind out a 1-1 draw. It is a fantastic result for a newly-promoted team to get a result like that against one of the giants of European football, and Wolves’ fans have a right to be delighted and praise their players. Some fans even thought that their club dominated in the second half, which indicates the faith they have in their team already, even before the main season has begun. A team that has Rui Patricio, Ruben Neves and Diogo Jota amongst their ranks are destined to be in the Premier League again next season should they live up to expectations – every Wolves’ fan knows that.