• Wolves lost to Watford in painful
fashion at Wembley last season• Diogo Jota unfit to face
Manchester United with thigh injury
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The Wolves manager, Nuno Espírito Santo, says the “grieving” his team did in the aftermath of their FA Cup semi‑final defeat against Watford in May has made them better able to face this season’s competition.
On Saturday Wolves host Manchester United, whom they eliminated in the quarter-final last season before losing a two-goal lead in the semi‑final against Watford, who won 3-2 in extra time. Nuno admits that elimination hit him and the players hard and they had to grieve in order to come back stronger.