Wolves completed a rout of Armenian side Pyunik in the Europa League qualifier second leg at Molineux on Thursday night.
Leading 4-0 from the first leg, Nuno’s side added another four goals to sail through to the play-offs in style.
Now they’ll face Italian side Torino over two legs for a place in the group stages, with the ties set to be played on August 22nd (away) and 29th (home).
Pedro Neto scored the first goal of the game on his debut and set up Morgan Gibbs-White just four minutes later for the second.
The winger was delighted and said to the official Wolves site afterwards, “The feeling was amazing to play in front of these amazing fans. To score and make an assist in my first game was incredible, especially in front of these incredible fans.”
19-year-old Neto signed from Lazio this summer, where he had made five senior appearances, for a sizeable fee of £16.5m. That shows how well regarded the Portugal Under-20 player is and he showed the Wolves fans what they can expect to see more of this season against Pyunik.
As you’d expect, the fans were delighted – here are the best reactions:
Neto & Cutrone last night ??#wwfc #Wolves #EuropaLeague
— ???? W ? ? (@pwillwolfie) August 16, 2019
Great 2nd half performance. Like the look of Cutrone and Neto, great for MGW to score too. Now a massive test lies ahead for us, 5 games in 17 days, we'll need some of the players who played last night and they need to be ready. Bring it on! #wwfc #wolvesaywe https://t.co/PGfLZAeSsU
— Mathew Howell ?? (@bigmat1982) August 16, 2019
Getting into Europe was a huge achievement for Wolves in their first year back in the Premier League. However, it’s not easy going through the qualifiers.
They’d already got through a two-leg tie with Crusaders before taking on Pyunik, and that tie was sandwiched with their first Premier League game that ended 0-0 against Leicester.
They’ve now got five games to play in a little over two weeks – Man United, Torino (twice), Burnley and Everton. It means the Wolves fans will likely be seeing more of Neto in the near future.
Neto looked very decent tonight #wwfc
— RJ9 (@RampantRaul) August 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/JotaEighteen/status/1162129501708595203
Lots of positives from tonight. Fringe players all getting minutes. Came to life 2nd half, Neto and Cutrone standing out. Maybe the transfer window wasn’t such a disaster after all?! ?? ? #wwfc
— Ben (@woodall85) August 15, 2019
One really interesting tweet poll asked Wolves fans if they thought they’d upgraded by loaning Helder Costa to Leeds (in a deal that will become permanent next summer) and signing Neto. An overwhelming 92% of fans said they had.
What a first game for Neto. Gets a goal and then an assist.. looks like we got a bit of talent on our hands. Still only a teenager to ?#wwfc
— Space cowboy (@Space_Cowboy3) August 15, 2019
Thought Saiss was magnificent tonight, the backspin ball into the corner for Vinagre to run onto in 2nd half was as good as anything Ruben has ever done. Neto was the highlight, he is going to be a megastar #wwfc
— Steven Court (@stevenjcourt) August 15, 2019
Neto had a great game … he’s going to be a great player for #wwfc ?
— ??Andy Weaver ?? (@troutbeckwolf) August 15, 2019
Think uncle jorge may just have found us another gem #neto #wwfc
— Adam Hampshire (@hampshire93) August 15, 2019
Plenty of Wolves fans think they’ve got a real star on their hands after watching Neto play last night. And one fan thanked “Uncle Jorge” aka Jorge Mendes who helped to bring Neto across from Lazio. He looks like he could be a real find.