Gary O’Neil is assured Wolves will overachieve once more within the Premier League this season regardless of falling to a 2-1 defeat to Newcastle on Sunday.
Mario Lemina had given the hosts a half-time lead, just for Fabian Schar and Harvey Barnes’ long-range efforts finishing the turnaround for the Magpies.
Wolves have now did not win any of their opening 4 league video games this time period and occupy the ultimate place within the backside three.
Their single level in opposition to Nottingham Forest makes this their joint-worst begin to a Premier League marketing campaign, together with 2003-04, once they had been relegated in final place.
O’Neil’s facet have now additionally misplaced six of their final seven league video games at Molineux, dropping extra video games on residence turf in 2024 than some other crew within the top-flight (eight).
However the Wolves head coach, who oversaw a 14th-place end in his debut marketing campaign on the helm final yr, is assured his gamers will discover their groove.
“Now we have higher depth, in fact. The run is the run. The crew ought to be judged on what they did for the entire of final season.
“I’m certain we’ll overachieve what many individuals will count on of us this season.
“Everyone seems to be determined for our first win. That was near being our greatest as we speak.
“Now we have gone up in opposition to a facet which have spent an terrible lot of cash and had been within the Champions League.
“There usually are not loads of groups that may go in opposition to Newcastle and look the most definitely to win.”
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— Wolves (@Wolves) September 15, 2024
There have been positives for O’Neil to take from the defeat, nonetheless, most notably the efficiency of recent addition Andre in central midfield.
The Brazilian accomplished all 40 of his passes in opposition to Newcastle, probably the most on document by a participant on their first ever Premier League begin with out misplacing one (since 2003-04).
“Excellent, he’s a superb participant clearly. New system as we speak with the three midfielders in. An terrible lot of positives,” O’Neil mentioned.
“In fact the one positives that individuals are fascinated by is factors.
“From my perspective, to have provide you with a brand new construction for the crew and for it to look the way it did in opposition to Newcastle was an enormous plus for us.”
