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  • Date: 2006-08-05
  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Attendance: 15964
  • Referee: Williamson, I

Live Commentary

90mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

82mins

Rohan Ricketts is replaced by Lewis Gobern.

73mins

Lilian Nalis is being taken off, Bojan Djordjic has come on in his place.

68mins

Paul Connolly is booked for dissent.

65mins

Jay Bothroyd is being taken off, Craig Davies has come on in his place.

65mins

The referee has booked Lilian Nalis.

61mins

Plymouth are replacing Nick Chadwick with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.

58mins

The referee has booked David Norris.

56mins

Rob Edwards is booked for unsporting behaviour.

50mins

Nick Chadwick is booked for unsporting behaviour.

47mins

Own goal, Mathias Doumbe has put it in his own net.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 0.

46mins

Wolverhampton are replacing Gary Breen with Rob Edwards.

45mins

Half time whistle is blown by I Williamson

35mins

Goal!! Plymouth have scored with Barry Hayles putting it in the back of the net.

10mins

Karl Henry is booked for unsporting behaviour.

8mins

The referee has booked Jamie Clapham.

0mins

It's 3pm on Saturday, August 5th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

Barry Hayles' debut goal was not enough to give Ian Holloway a winning start as Argyle manager as Wolves came from behind to secure a share of the spoils at Home Park.

Hayles rounded off some good wing work by Northern Ireland international full-back Tony Capaldi to give the Pilgrims a 36th-minute lead.

However, Wolves goalkeeper Matt Murray was in excellent form and the visitors rallied to level two minutes into the second half after Kevin O'Connor's shot took a deflection off French defender Mathias Doumbe and looped over Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick into the net.

Wolves had lost 2-0 to the Pilgrims last April in what represented the high-water mark of Tony Pulis' short reign at Home Park, but there were few similarities to the visitors in terms of personnel or attitude.

The Pilgrims went into the game on the back of a 1-0 defeat at League Two Bristol Rovers but were heartened by the return, after a non-football related injury, of captain Paul Wotton.

It was Wotton who went as close as anyone to breaking the deadlock in a cagey first half, when he forced Wolves goalkeeper Matt Murray to scramble back and claw an inswinging corner over the crossbar. Murray immediately made it a double fingertip save when French midfielder Lilian Nalis headed Capaldi's subsequent corner powerfully goalwards.

Wotton was also prominent at the other end, jumping in bravely to block a shot from former Stoke midfielder Karl Henry as the debutant shaped up menacingly.

The deadlock was broken as the result of a sweet move and some judicious refereeing by Iain Williamson, who allowed Argyle to play on after Nalis was fouled in Wotton range.

David Norris picked up the loose and played Capaldi in on the overlap. His cut-back was nudged towards goal by a stretching Hayles and bounded up towards goal off the committed Murray. The ball was clearly going in as Chadwick applied a final headed touch right on the goal-line.

Argyle maintained their advantage until the interval but only two minutes afterwards. There was a degree of misfortune about it, with Doumbe's outstretched boot deflecting O'Connor's shot up and looping over the stranded McCormick.

Murray, inevitably, had the final word, twisting to stop a clever, reverse-angle shot from Norris after the Pilgrims' player of the year had skinned three Wolves defenders on his way to the edge of the area.

Plymouth Argyle

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Corners

112

Fouls

1812

Goal attempts

124

Shots off target

22

Offsides

25

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