Rob Edwards has challenged his Wolves players to not go down without a fight after being condemned to a 12th defeat in 14 Premier League games this season by Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n
The Old Gold\u2019s search for a first win of the campaign continues after Forest walked away from Molineux with all three points on Wednesday night with a lacklustre showing from Edwards\u2019 players.<\/p>\n
Although Premier League survival is looking more and more unlikely with each passing defeat, the head coach is urging his players to at least show some passion, grit and endeavour during the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n
On defeat under the Molineux lights<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really disappointed with tonight. Compared to the levels that we set on Sunday, it was almost the opposite tonight. I asked the players at half time if they were scared. They said they weren\u2019t. I looked into each of their eyes and let it linger for about 30 seconds and asked again, \u2018Are you?\u2019 No was the answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it was very passive and looked in the first half like we were afraid to make a mistake. I don\u2019t know if that was based on the reaction of the crowd, but maybe that\u2019s human nature. I know we conceded in the second half, but I felt the game was lost in the first half with the lack of intensity and we didn\u2019t show any of the things I want from my team, and that hurts.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019re in the position we\u2019re in now. It looked bleak when I arrived and we can\u2019t affect what goes on elsewhere. But we can affect what we can do, but we didn\u2019t do our job tonight. We don\u2019t want to die like that. That\u2019s going to be the message now going forward \u2013 we don\u2019t want to go out with a whimper.\u201d<\/p>\n
On a lack of cutting edge<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kept playing back and sideways too much. There was no real risk-taking there. We sort of waited and it was too slow. There was nothing in the first-half that I really liked about us. The fact that we were nil-nil was probably the only positive. We kept going back, back, back, or sideways, sideways, and not taking a risk, not playing through, and the one moment we did, we got Jhon Arias to turn and he played Jackson in but then it fizzled into nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere weren\u2019t many moments in that first-half at all. Jhon Arias had a good chance, one that flashed across, whether Jorgen [Strand Larsen] could have come closer with that one, or whether Mateus [Mane] could have had a shot at the end. We often puffed, and got Marshall [Munetsi] in behind late on as well, but there wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to try and show something, try and change somehow, show a bit of a fresh impetus, and try and change what we\u2019re doing because it wasn\u2019t working. We built a little bit of a head of steam, but weren\u2019t able to find that moment. It\u2019s the name of the game to keep it out of the net at one end and score in the other, and we\u2019re finding it really hard to do that at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it wasn\u2019t a good game at all. It wasn\u2019t a good game and I don\u2019t think either team were great, if I\u2019m being honest. But we haven\u2019t won for a long, long time and maybe those games when we\u2019re not great like that, we\u2019ve got to try and find a way to win, even when we\u2019re poor.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the VAR check<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a long, long wait. I know we all want the right decision off the back of that, and tonight it’s gone our way, so I\u2019m going to sit here and say, \u2018Well, look, at least we got the right decision at the end of it\u2019, but it\u2019s a long wait and it\u2019s not very entertaining, especially when the game was how it was as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not great for the fans. I don\u2019t know how obvious it was, because I haven\u2019t watched it back, but we don\u2019t want the long wait. We want to try and make the game as intense as possible, and we didn\u2019t do that from my team\u2019s perspective tonight, but that slowed things down even more.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Mane\u2019s promising display<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll take a risk. I probably wanted him to shoot when he had that opportunity later on. He said he could have, so I said, \u2018You\u2019re on the pitch, you\u2019ve got to believe in yourself\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe these younger ones are a little bit more risk averse and not being burnt by making a mistake and then hearing one or two grumbles or something like that. But he\u2019s done well, we like him, and we had to try and change things up a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Wolves fans showing their frustrations<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand. I don\u2019t know when the last time was they saw the team win, so I get it. I\u2019d be really angry if I was one of our fans as well. I don\u2019t feel it\u2019s a criticism on me right now, I feel like they\u2019ve been really supportive of me, but I\u2019d be angry if I was a Wolves supporter at the moment, because they want the team to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll get behind us. They saw a really good performance on the weekend, and did you see them at the end? I went up to show my appreciation and they were all with us. Even though they just lost to a Midlands rival, and we\u2019ve not won for so long, they will forgive mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur fans have got their heads screwed on. They want to see effort, and they want to see passion, and fight and determination and grit and endeavour, but we didn\u2019t show any of that tonight.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Edwards has challenged his Wolves players to not go down without a fight after being condemned to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}