50 min Traore runs away from Barnes, who fouled him a few seconds previously and did well to avoid a booking. His cross is just too strong, but he’s coming onto a game here.
48 min Wolves push it out to Traore, who arranges his feet over the ball beautifully, gulling Justin into thinking he’s going outside before teeing up Neves on his inside; the resultant shot flies high and wide, but not by that much.
47 min I love Saka. It’s absolutely mind-boggling how good he is, in so many positions.
46 min “The excellent Saka for me, is one of the youngest-looking players,” reckons Ruth Purdue. He is definitely the league’s choochiest player.
46 min We go again.
Jonny doesn’t make it out for the second half, replaced by Hoever. Hopefully he’s ok.
The players are back with us.
It’s so unacceptable that 20-year-old footballers are forced to deal with stuff like this, but what a job they’re doing of dealing with it.
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Elsewhere, Ellen White’s banger has given Man City the lead at Arsenal; earlier today, Reading recorded a shock win at Man United.
Let’s hope for a bit of this in the second half.
Maddison is still irating at Neves as they trot off, but as much as anything he’s probably frustrated with how the game’s going; save its goalless aspect, exactly as Wolves would like it to be going.
45+1 min Maddison skips around Neves, who ploughs through him in the traditional manner. He’s booked.
45 min There’ll be one additional minute.
45 min Now Traore gets around Justin, blazing by on the outside. But with men in the box, his cut-back is behind all of them; that’s a wasted opportunity.
44 min This has been an enjoyable half, in a low-key kind of way. Or maybe I’ve recalibrated my expectations of Wolves so that any vaguely watchable game involving them seems like Brazil-France at Mexico ’86.
42 min But this is better from Leicester, Tielemans sliding a lovely ball out for Perez, weighted beautifully; he runs onto it and caresses a low cross into the box, which Iheanacho holds up well. He then lays back for Maddison, who punches a side-footer that’s straight at Rui Patricio.
41 min It’s got a bit messy. Neither side quite has the cohesion to move the ball through midfield quickly.
39 min I don’t think it’ll be long before we see James Vardy. If I was Brendan Rodgers - I’m not, and I’m not even sure Brendan Rodgers is – I’d be keeping Iheanacho on and taking Perez off.
37 min Poor from Neves, who clumps it straight into the wall.
36 min Moutinho gets on the ball in a shooting position, and just when he looks like letting one go, he switches to Neves and Choudury hurls himself in the road of the eventuating shot, the ball hitting his raised arm. Free-kick Wolves, just outside the D.
35 min “Re the youngest looking player in the league,” says Adam Kline-Schoder, “Tielemans is a great shout, and in the current crop I’d also nominate Ødegaard. If I may cast our collective mind back to last season, I always thought that David Brooks wouldn’t stand out too much in the local primary school.”
Tangentially, I really like Brooks. I’m surprised he’s not playing in the Prem this season.
34 min Better from Leicester, Barnes getting on the ball and on the run with space in front of him, playing into Iheanacho, and when the ball breaks to Maddison inside the box, 529 Wolves defenders hurl themselves in front of him to block the shot.
32 min Evans misjudges the flight of the ball and axe-kicks Jose as a consequence; he’s booked, and the only reason it was left at that is that he missed. Proper contact there, and he’s gawn.
31 min Wolves back off and wait for the loose pass, which is not long in coming. Leicester need to get Maddison on the ball in the number 10 position, perhaps on the half-turn – he’s a bit deep at the moment.
29 min Indeed he does, curling low and around the near side of the wall; Rui Patricio gathers at the second attempt.
28 min Neves fouls Tielemans and Leicester have a free-kick 35 yards out, right of centre. It looks too far out for a shot, but Maddison might fancy it.
27 min Neto is looking dangerous every time he gets the ball and he plays a one-two with Neves then diddles Pereira. But no one gambles when the cross comes over and the ball flies across the face of goal and away.
26 min Wolves win a corner down the left that Leicester struggle to get away. They’re not looking at all solid at set-pieces.
25 min Traore tries to go down the outside of Justin again, but nothing doing, the full-back standing up and standing strong to see him away. Traore wants a foul, but the ref rightly advises him to do one.
24 min Evans slides a pass into midfield for Perez, who’s absolutely flattened by Neves’ glorious teeth-rattler. The ref does well to appraise no foul.
23 min Leicester are warming up and Barnes does well to find Maddison chasing to the line; on the run, he swipes over an excellent low cross that’s fractionally behind Iheanacho.
22 min Maddison flicks to Perez with the outside of his boot and Perez looks to lay off to Iheanacho, but the flag then goes up.
20 min Iheanacho gets down the left side of the box and has Barnes one over, but he decides to flay a shot off to who knows where instead of finding him.
19 min Better from Leicester, Barnes playing into Iheanacho and dashing across the face of the box to collect the return, but Wolves immediately crowd him out.
18 min Leicester win a free-kick down the right following a foul by Jonny, but Maddison’s cross is directly into the phalanx of defenders and the ball is headed clear.
17 min Leicester are dominating possession but Wolves are much the better side, in that they’re getting the game they want and looking the likelier scorers.
15 min Nice from Leicester, Pereira finding Iheanacho, but Neves is on hand to confiscate possession and Wolves counter, Neto isolating Evans out on the left and megging him like a boss. Line, line, he skips to the line, cuts back ... and Justin does a tremendous job of blocking Traore’s shot. The resultant corner comes to nowt.
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