Wolves boss Vito Pereira spoke to BBC’s Match of the Day after losing to Burnley: “A lot of frustration because we have worked a lot on the pitch to win the game, but football is football and sometimes it is very unfair.
“We need to understand that we lost this battle, but the next game is another battle. The three points would be very important for us to give confidence. We keep working to be better in the next game.
“The first half, we conceded two goals from the long balls in the back, and it’s something we work on. When a team scores, it means the other team made mistakes, and we didn’t control the balls.
“A very good reaction, which showed the mentality of the team. We scored two goals, and we talked [at halftime] about needing three points and doing everything to win the game. They did everything, even with Burnley in the low block.
On the interaction with supporters after the game: “It’s normal with the frustration of the result in the last minute. They are frustrated. In my opinion, the team deserve the support because the players gave everything on the pitch. In the end, they must feel proud about the work of the players, but we understand that another defeat is difficult to balance.
“We cannot fight alone, we need them United and together we can do it.”
On chants of ‘sacked in the morning’: “I have a lot of experience in football. Months ago, they sang my name because when I arrived, the club was in a bad position. Together, we worked fantastically to be here.
“I understand it is football. If we win two or three games in a row, everything will change.”
On concerns over his future: “I am concerned about the team and winning games. It is not about me, it is about the players and the club.”
Jorgen Strand Larsen spoke to BBC Match of the Day: “It’s not nice to be a Wolves player or fan right now, and I’m really sorry to everyone out there supporting us. That is why we love and hate this game, and right now we hate it. Sorry to the fans for not being able to give them what they deserve.
“After a slow start, we came back and played good football. We deserved to win today, and it’s just the moment we are in right now.
“We are really sad, it’s one of the worst feelings I’ve had in a long time. The only positive is that there are 29 games more to go, and we need to keep going and believing in ourselves.
“We need to look at each other, be positive and look where we can improve. That is especially for me – I haven’t been at the same level as last season, and I’m trying to get there. It was nice to get a goal, but it doesn’t really matter in the end.”
On going over to the fans at the end of the game: “It’s not nice. We don’t want that, but it’s what you need sometimes, to let the frustration out. I was just trying to listen a bit, and we can understand the frustration.”
Did you know?
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After losing this match, Wolves have become just the third side in English top-flight history to fail to win each of their opening nine games of a league season in consecutive campaigns after Bury in 1904-05/1905-06 and Sunderland in 2015-16/2016-17.
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Wolves have failed to win any of their last seven home league games (D2 L5), their longest run within a Premier League campaign without victory at Molineux since a 12-match streak between December 2011 and May 2012 – a season during which they were relegated.
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