{"id":658212,"date":"2025-08-16T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658212"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:16:34","slug":"wolves-predicted-lineup-man-city-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/16\/wolves-predicted-lineup-man-city-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Predicted Lineup Vs Man City For August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers are set to kick off their 2025\/26 Premier League campaign with a difficult home fixture against Manchester City at Molinuex on August 16. Under the guidance of V\u00edtor Pereira, Wolves are looking to improve on their 16th-place finish last season and make a strong start to this season. Here is our Wolves predicted lineup.<\/p>\n<h2>Wolves Have A Tough Start To The Season As They Face Manchester City<\/h2>\n<h3>How Wolves Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>In Pre-season, there has been a lot of rotation to the squad, but Pereira has favoured the 3-4-2-1 formation from last season, emphasising defensive solidity and quick transitions. New signing left wing-back David M\u00f8ller Wolfe has made his debut in Wolves&#8217; last pre-season game against Celta Vigo, and is expected to make his Premier League debut against Manchester City. The attacking trio of J\u00f8rgen Strand Larsen, Jhon Arias, and Fer L\u00f3pez has shown promise, while midfielders Jo\u00e3o Gomes and Andr\u00e9 have provided energy and defensive cover in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/15\/wolves-jackson-tchatchoua\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wolves On The Verge Of Signing \u2018Unsung Hero\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The back three has typically featured Matt Doherty, Emmanuel Agbadou, and Toti Gomes. With Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1 in goal. The left and right wing-back positions have been rotated heavily since the departure of both Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri and N\u00e9lson Semedo. Ki-Jana Hoever has featured heavily, as well as Rodrigo Gomes and Hugo Bueno.<\/p>\n<h3>Wolves Recent Form And Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>They have played six games during pre-season and haven&#8217;t managed a win, drawing two and losing four. The Wanderers played two behind-closed-doors friendlies against Santa Clara, a 2-1 loss and a 1-1 draw with Burnley. Another 1-1 draw followed against Championship side Stoke City, followed by three defeats in a row to RC Lens (3-1), Girona (2-1), and Celta Vigo (1-0).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/13\/wolves-squad-overhaul-under-vitor-pereira\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">V\u00edtor Pereira Takes Full Control With Wolves In Process of Huge Squad Overhaul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These results highlight that Wolves need to improve quickly if they want to avoid a similar start to last season, which found them in relegation trouble. Despite these setbacks, the integration of the new signings will be crucial for the side as they prepare for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira said during the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NathanJudah\/status\/1956327034969370845\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-match press conference<\/a>: &#8220;A successful season for Wolves is to do better than last season&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Injuries To Consider<\/h3>\n<p>Yerson Mosquera has returned to training and made an 11-minute cameo from the bench against Celta Vigo after his ACL injury early last season. He is not expected to start but may make the squad. F\u00e1bio Silva has also had a hamstring injury. He has returned to training but has not featured in Wolves&#8217; last two friendlies.<\/p>\n<h3>Wolves Predicted Lineup Vs Man City<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">GK: Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Defence: Matt Doherty, Emmanuel Agbadou, &amp; Toti Gomes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Midfield: David M\u00f8ller Wolfe, Jo\u00e3o Gomes, Andr\u00e9, &amp; Ki-Jana Hoever<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Forwards: Fer L\u00f3pez, Jhon Arias, &amp; J\u00f8rgen Strand Larsen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers are set to kick off their 2025\/26 Premier League campaign with a difficult home fixture against Manchester City at Molinuex on August 16. Under the guidance of V\u00edtor Pereira, Wolves are looking to improve on their 16th-place finish last season and make a strong start to this season. Here is our Wolves predicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5441,"featured_media":658226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,1831,2510],"tags":[31721],"class_list":["post-658212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-city","category-starting-line-up","category-wolves","tag-wolves-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658227,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658212\/revisions\/658227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}