It’s fair to say that Wolverhampton Wanderers could not have predicted their lack of luck at the striker position this season, and the decision to loan Fábio Silva out to Anderlecht made sense at the time.
The Portuguese striker had failed to have the desired impact at Molineux since his big transfer from Porto, and the need to play regularly was clear, which is why he was sent to Belgium.
While the season had started rather well, with three goals in his first four league appearances, the Wolves loanee found himself facing a bit of a dry patch of late, with his last goal prior to the weekend coming on September 8th in a 1-0 win Silkeborg IF.
This all changed on Sunday, when Silva found the back of the net against KV Mechelen to seal a 3-1 victory, and DH hope this will be the boost that helps him recover his earlier form.
The website explain the player looked lost despite his team going 2-1 up, as while his teammates were off celebrating, the Wolves striker ‘walked with his head down on the other side of the pitch’.
However, four minutes later, he was handed another chance, and ‘this time, he scored by placing the ball nicely in the bottom corner’, celebrating as if he’d just scored in a tough Champions League game.
DH explain this showed ‘how Silva was undermined by doubt in recent weeks’ after spending ‘a month without scoring’.
His miss against West Ham was ‘still on his mind’, as he had wanted to ‘shine against a Premier League team’, and the hope is that, with this goal against Mechelen, he is ‘finally revived’.
Wolves will be paying close attention to all this, since they will want a confident and improved Silva to return to Molineux at the end of the season, with the aim to use him in England going forward.
