Three days after AFC Wimbledon bundled West Ham United out of the FA Cup, Manuel Pellegrini delivered another withering assessment of his side by saying that they could not have played worse against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
With three goals conceded to an impressive Wolves team, no shots on target as they suffered their third loss in a row, and a worrying injury to Marko Arnautovic, Pellegrini’s evening could barely have been more depressing.
The manager said that he expected a reaction to the weekend humbling. He did not get it. Not that Nuno Espírito Santo and his Wolves side would have cared about the travails of the visitors after a goal by Romain Saïss and two more by the superb Raul Jiménez put them seventh in