text: Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Millwall 1: Bill Howell's big match verdict and player ratings - Birmingham Live
  Wolves 0 Millwall 1: Andy Keogh adds pressure on old club
  Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Millwall 1: Bill Howell's big match verdict and player ratings
  Updated 09:14, 28 NOV 2012
  The curse of the former player struck to kick Wolves for a third time – just when they were on their knees.
  First Bolton's Mark Davies, then Nottingham Forest's Adlene Guedioura. Now Millwall's Andy Keogh.
  It was too much for many of the paltry 18,174 who bothered to show.
  "What a load of rubbish" came the cries from many in a disillusioned Molineux stadium after witnessing their side sink to a fourth home loss in six winless matches.
  That's nine league games without a win in a sequence that has seen Stale Solbakken's men topple from third to 18th quicker than Joey Barton's accent can turn French.
  Not that this latest exhibition of mediocrity is any laughing matter.
  Seven points from the bottom three and ten from the top six is not what the doctor ordered. This is now a side so bereft of confidence.
  Wolves were absolutely fine before the break. Some of their football was as good as anything this season. But once again they delivered an abysmal second half and fell to Keogh's well-taken late winner which lifted the Lions to fifth.
  In front of their worst home crowd in five years, Wolves' misery was compounded by a hand injury to keeper Carl Ikeme. Early on Wolves looked good. Bjorn Sigurdarson was lively and Bakary Sako, playing with a slight injury, saw a shot deflected over for a corner. There was also a big shout for a penalty when Kevin Doyle was felled by Danny Shittu. But Millwall were never over-run and full-back Adam Smith smashed a shot into the side netting on a rare break.
  Once again the second-half was a different story as Millwall pegged the home side back. They got their reward when Keogh pounced on West Brom striker Chris Wood's ball to increase the home fans' anger. Substitute Sylvan Ebanks-Blake had chances to earn a point but time-after-time saw his finishing fall short.
  Solbakken, to his immense credit, pulled no punches in his post-match analysis. But he is now facing a relegation six-pointer at Bristol City this weekend. "It's one man that is going to have the pressure and that's me," said the Norwegian.
  "I am the man that has to get confidence back into the team. If you look at the game everyone worked really hard and we went at them in the first half, creating big chances. We should have had a clear penalty. The first 20-25 minutes were really good. We were by far the best team. We can look in the mirror and say that the first half was an okay performance. The second half was probably the worst we have done this season. For long periods we looked nervous and they created one or two chances.
  "After that it was very untidy. We couldn't get hold of the ball, we kicked it when we should keep it, we kept it when we should kick it. In the second half we were awful. We looked nervous, we looked disorganised, we looked not a football team and we have to be honest about that and we cn't say anything else but sorry for the second half. It was as bad as it can be in a way. There's nothing more to say."
  WOLVES (4-4-2): Ikeme 7 (De Vries,66,6), Stearman 6 (Ebanks-Blake,82), Johnson 6, Berra 6, Ward 6, Pennant 6 (Forde,69,6), Davis 6, Edwards 6, Sako 6, Doyle 6, Sigurdarson 7. Subs: Batth, Foley, Doumbia, Nouble.