Gary O'Neil doubles down with demand to Wolves stars - notably key man Matheus Cunha

Wolves caput to Fulham connected Saturday emboldened by their archetypal triumph of the play earlier the planetary break, but with Molineux brag Gary O'Neil inactive a antheral nether pressure

Gary O’Neil has called upon Wolves’ strikers to commencement defending from the front.

The under-pressure Molineux main heads to Craven Cottage this afternoon, partially relieved by their archetypal triumph of the season implicit Southampton. But helium inactive finds himself nether the pump - and helium believes that portion his broadside person a extremity threat, they request to tighten up each implicit the pitch.

He said: “Before I arrived, Wolves struggled for years and years to people goals. They were 1 of the lowest scorers successful the league for a precise agelong time, and we ever look similar scoring now, and determination are not excessively galore games wherever we don't negociate to score. But it's trying to find that close equilibrium betwixt that and making definite we're coagulated enough.

“We decidedly don't privation to instrumentality distant from being an attacking squad due to the fact that immoderate of our champion moments travel from Matheus Cunha’s state and getting players forward. But we bash request to find a mode to beryllium solid. We request to assistance the boys recognize however to support the extremity better.

“The beforehand players request to support them better, it’s astir each of it arsenic a team.

“The squad needs to beryllium amended retired of possession, and that’s a large focus. Sometimes you'll perceive maine speech astir Matheus [Cunha], due to the fact that he's unbelievably talented, and helium wins america games connected his own, but helium wants maine to beryllium hard connected him, and helium wants maine to amended him retired of possession, and I enactment connected it with him each azygous day.”

O’Neil added that the decision to Brentford - amid a tricky commencement to the run - fell mode beneath the modular expected.

He said: “It's been an absorbing play for america truthful acold successful that journey, not the results, conscionable the performances I was truly pleased with for specified a agelong clip astatine the start. I cognize you don't privation to support saying that due to the fact that we weren't picking up capable points, but we had immoderate pugnacious opposition.

“We took Liverpool to the wire, we should person taken thing disconnected Newcastle, we were the amended broadside astatine Villa for a agelong time, truthful determination were immoderate existent bully performances successful there. But for immoderate reason, erstwhile we arrived astatine Brentford, we fell a agelong mode beneath the level.

“It was astir apt the archetypal crippled that radical extracurricular of present would person gone, ‘You're not playing 1 of the large boys. Now let's see.’ And we fell good beneath the level and we gave ourselves perfectly nary accidental of taking thing from that crippled with however we went astir it.”

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