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title: "Wolves: Joe Edwards hammers Willy Boly’s weekend performance"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "David Comerford"
section: "Premier League"
published: "2021-04-26T15:30:38Z"
modified: "2021-04-26T15:30:38Z"
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# Wolves: Joe Edwards hammers Willy Boly’s weekend performance

**Wolves were dealt a woeful 4-0 home beating by Burnley on Sunday in one of the worst displays of Nuno Espirito Santo’s Molineux reign.**

Chris Wood had put the game to bed by half-time by [netting a hat-trick](https://www.skysports.com/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-vs-burnley/report/429166) and Ashley Westwood scored another for the visitors with five minutes remaining. Wolves amassed an [xG](https://twitter.com/xGPhilosophy/status/1386302094253174784) of just 0.36 over the course of the game, whilst allowing Burnley 2.43.

Nuno’s men had surpassed the 40-point safety mark by beating Sheffield United the previous weekend. They remain in [12th place](https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-table), five points adrift of the top half and four behind local rivals Aston Villa.

### ‘Boly could not get his bearings’

In his [player ratings](https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2021/04/26/wolves-0-burnley-4---player-ratings/), Express and Star correspondent Joe Edwards handed out five 2/10s, one of which went to [£67k-per-week](https://www.spotrac.com/epl/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/payroll/) defender Willy Boly.

Edwards wrote that it was the Frenchman’s ‘worst performance in a Wolves shirt, without a doubt’, adding that Boly ‘could not get his bearings, at all’. The defender won just [two duels](https://www.sofascore.com/burnley-wolverhampton/dsg) all afternoon, lost possession [13 times](https://www.sofascore.com/burnley-wolverhampton/dsg) and was culpable of some [shocking misplaced headers](https://www.skysports.com/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-vs-burnley/report/429166), one of which came immediately prior to a goal for Wood.

Sunday marked the Ivorians [134th appearance](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/willy-boly/leistungsdaten/spieler/142310) in the old gold, with the 30-year-old [continuing to be a regular presence](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/willy-boly/leistungsdaten/spieler/142310) in Nuno’s defence throughout the 2020/21 season.

[The other 2/10s](https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2021/04/26/wolves-0-burnley-4---player-ratings/) were given to fellow centre-halves Conor Coady and Romain Saiss, holding midfielder Leander Dendoncker and forward Daniel Podence. Unsurprisingly, no player was awarded higher than a five by Edwards.

### Transfer Tavern verdict

Boly and his Wolves team-mates will be out to prove they’re not simply ‘on the beach’ for the remainder of the season when they take on West Bromwich Albion in a Midlands derby next weekend.

Even if they do muster a response, though, performances like this will surely generate lasting concerns among the Molineux faithful. Players like Boly cannot afford too many more horrendous off-days like the one against Burnley if they are to keep their places in the line-up.

***In other news, [many Wolves fans were buzzing after this transfer update](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/wolves-transfer-rumours/wolves-fans-buzzing-as-tammy-abraham-transfer-update-emerges/).***