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Wolves boss O'Neil pleased to earn FA Cup replay after bitter Brentford draw

Wolves boss Gary O'Neil was left pleased with their 1-1 draw at FA Cup opponents Brentford.

Tommy Doyle canceled out Neil Maupay's opener for the Bees with Joao Gomes seeing red for the visitors.

O'Neil said: "I'm really pleased, it's an incredible effort from the players. There was not much between the teams even with 10 versus 11. We coped with their extra man, tactically we dealt with it very well. Even going 1-0 down with 10 men, to put in the second half they did was really impressive."

On Joao Gomes' red card, he said: "I can see it. I know Joao, he would never do this on purpose, but it doesn't look great.

"The tackle on Tommy Doyle [by Mikkel Damsgaard] is a straight leg with studs, just as bad as Joao.

"Then [Keane Lewis-Potter] grabbing Nelson Semedo by the throat is a red. We were saying in the bench, it will be a red, VAR will give a red, so I was really surprised, but it's not really my problem, I will deal with my group."

On whether he will speak to the referee, he added: "I'm on two yellow cards, so I wanted to tread very carefully. I'm not sure where the line is, sometimes questions can get you booked. I will ask for an explanation but that won't help us. We now have a player missing for three games and they don't."

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