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Liam Keen and Jonny Drury look ahead to Wolves' clash with Sunderland this weekend - while reflecting on the their missed opportunities in recent weeks.
Wolves shipped two late goals against Spurs and Brighton - as they picked up two points.
It could have potentially been a six point haul for Vitor Pereira's men - as they still look for their first league win of the season.
Liam and Jonny discuss what Pereira could have done in the differently in the previous two outings - and how the Wolves chief could avoid similar scenarios ahead of two big games.
Transcript
00:00He's obviously got faith in his side, despite the fact that they're rooted to the foot of the table.
00:04But to show a bit more, certainly at home as well, maybe the Spurs game you could maybe kind of forgive him for.
00:11But the kind of Brighton game where you're going into the last 10, 5, 10 minutes of the game.
00:16But long before that, you've kind of looked to try and shut up shop.
00:20Just need to show a bit more bravery and get over them.
00:22Because if they do get one win, we've seen, I'm sure you will see as well, and I've read about,
00:27there has been progress in recent weeks. There has been progress.
00:30You get one win and it can change everything.
00:33And I think there just needs to be that little bit more bravery.
00:35And taking chances helps that. If Wolves were 2-0 up in that game, it's a completely different story, isn't it?
00:40But the longer it stays at 1-0, you're always susceptible to kind of conceding.
00:45And for me, it's holding that nerve and just being that little bit braver to get the job done.
00:50Holding nerve, I think, is a good way of phrasing, actually.
00:52Look, Vitor's an experienced coach. I think he knows how to get a result.
01:01I know it hasn't happened yet, but he knows how to get that result.
01:04And we've seen it previously in his Wolves tenure.
01:09I think this was one of the worst examples of the game management.
01:15And I think Vitor's definitely better than this.
01:16I think he'll learn from it as well. Even though he's experienced, he's still going to be learning.
01:19I think he'll learn from that because it wasn't just the fact that Wolves went too negative.
01:24And of course, look, at the end of the day, you're going to be nervous.
01:26You're going to be trying to defend. I understand that. You haven't got a win.
01:29And also, at the end of the day, the only reason Wolves didn't win the game is because they defended one set piece poorly.
01:35That's all it came down to in the end. It was one poor set piece where they switched off.
01:39Now, that's the difference in the Premier League, of course.
01:41But it wasn't as if they were giving up loads of chances consistently.
01:44They were defending relatively well, actually, even with a five, albeit it was very last ditch stuff.
01:49That's the problem. But also, once it went to 1-1 in the 86th minute, I think it was,
01:55Wolves made changes then in the 91st and started going more attacking.
01:57They went very gung-ho. And actually, I think this has maybe gone under the radar a little bit.
02:03You know, Wolves could easily have gone too far the other way and conceded late and conceded a Brighton winner.
02:09You know, they went very, very gung-ho, very attacking. And I think that was a little bit naive in itself as well.
02:14I understand the win is going to be massive and so important, but again, slightly naive at that point to go so aggressive, I felt.
02:20So, yeah, it was frustrating because it's happened two weeks in a row.
02:24You can see those late equalisers. But also, at 1-0, Wolves had the chances there to go and win it.
02:30But Larson, this is the second chance, actually, but I'll talk about the Arias one at the end.
02:35Larson, I think, does really well, actually. Shapes onto his foot, sort of wrong foot for Bruggan,
02:40who's a decent goalkeeper, by the way, in goal, and just smashes the upright when he's got an opportunity to finish it.
02:47And that would have been a big goal for him as well as the club, of course.
02:50But what would have been an even bigger goal for an individual would have been John Arias getting his first goal.
02:54He hasn't got a goal or an assistant Wolves shirt yet.
02:56He's signed for roughly ÂŁ15 million. There's an add-on as well on top of that, which would make it even more expensive.
03:03And as an experienced player now, 28 years old, you want someone who's going to start to take opportunities.
03:08And he's got, you know, he gets pulled out to him, what was it, seven or eight yards out.
03:13Central as well. He's got the goal to aim at.
03:16Hugo Buenna just fantastically to pull it back to him.
03:18And Minetzi and Larson make a few runs to open a bit of the space up.
03:21And it's there, ready for him to go and win it in front of the South Bank.
03:24Have your moment. And he leans back and he skies it over the bars.
03:27So, look, it's not just the fact that I think Vito made an error with his changes in that second half.
03:33It's also the fact that some of the players have let him and the supporters down.
03:37And Arias, as much as his performances have been better, and there's other players we're going to talk about where his performances have been better as well.
03:44But he's got to take that chance. That's the massive moment.
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