🙈 Worse than Sunday league: PL club stuck in the mud | OneFootball

In amateur football, several games have fallen victim to the weather in recent days. Heavy rain and above-freezing temperatures have made the fields unplayable. However, where games did take place and no artificial turf was available, similar scenes likely unfolded as they did today in the English FA Cup. 

The bottom-of-the-table Premier League team, Wolverhampton Wanderers, traveled to the fourth-tier (League Two) team Grimsby Town.

Although the pitch must have looked wet, muddy, and quite unplayable even after the warm-up, the referee blew the whistle, and the game went on despite the challenging field conditions. 

What followed were images showing little green grass, but plenty of brown mud, puddles on the field, and clumps of mud flying around with almost every pass or shot attempt. 

It is often said that less technically skilled teams favor muddy and wet conditions, where no flow of play can be established, as their favorite conditions to showcase their strengths in duels and fair toughness. 

This was long true for Grimsby: On the field, which soon resembled more of a plowed field, the lower-league club held their ground for a long time.

After an hour, Santiago Bueno scored the Wolves' lead at the fourth-tier team. It was to be the only goal of the afternoon, meaning the Premier League club secured their spot in the round of 16, even though it was certainly not much fun given the field conditions. 

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