Jed Wallace determined to succeed at Wolves

Jed Wallace has certainly done that. A superb performance at Birmingham on Saturday was followed up by his first ever Wolves goal as he again starred on Tuesday in the EFL Cup win over Cambridge.

Wallace endured a frustrating debut year in Wolves colours. But 2016/17 is shaping up to be different.

"I feel good," he told the Express & Star. "I've always backed myself. Things didn't go my way last year, I thought I did okay, maybe showed my face at the end of the season when we had nothing to play for.

"I'm not going to get excited over six games. I want to do this over 100 to 200 games in this division and the Premier League, so hopefully I can do that here."

The 22-year-old has featured in every game so far this season, although he was relegated to the bench to the middle two of those six, against Reading and Ipswich.

Did he seek out Walter Zenga to ask why? "I tried to hunt him down on the training ground but he's a bit bigger than me so I just sort of thought better of it!" Wallace joked.

"No, he said collectively as a group we're going to be all playing this season. In Italy they don't have 55 games which is what we could potentially have this season.

"Especially with the loan ruling, it's going to be important that we use the whole squad. And in my opinion I'd rather be flying for whatever amount of games, rather than grafting every 55 games in a season. That's not good for any player.

"If we've got boys champing at the bit from the bench, coming on, starting, myself included, every player is going to want to do well especially when the team is winning, it's something you want to be part of."

It's been a testing 12 months for the former Portsmouth man – who was sent out on loan to Millwall last season - but his determination to succeed at Wolves is clear.

"I'd never been injured before (last season), and my career from aged 17 had just been scoring goals and being happy with no setbacks," he added.

"If things were easy in life then everyone would be doing it wouldn't they. If it was easy to be Ronaldo then everyone would be Ronaldo at the end of the day.

"So for me personally I've just got to worry about myself. I know I'm good enough. I know what I can work on, and I do that on the training pitch.

"There are a lot of players here ahead of me at the moment, I'm trying to be as good as them."

While Wallace was delighted to score his first Wolves goal on Tuesday, he admitted he should have scored a couple more, particularly a chance late on in the game which he didn't quite put his foot through.

He said of the chance: "It sort of got away from me and I kind of just flicked it. I wear an eight-and-a-half – if I wear a nine-and-a-half it'd probably nestle in the bottom corner.

"But it just got away from me right at the end. It was a great ball from Lenny (James Henry).

"We missed a pen, we had a lot of chances. So we made it difficult for ourselves but our centre halves stood up and were counted at the end, winning set pieces like we did on Saturday.

"I was a little bit disappointed, I thought I should have had a hat-trick maybe.

"But I've missed chances before, I'll miss chances again, I'm one of those people that as long as I'm getting in the positions that's all I really worry about."

With two assists and one goal in two games, how pleased is Wallace to be in and and around the goals?

"My job is to make and score goals," he said. "I'm not going to run around doing cartwheels when I do that, same as when the defenders win a header and the midfielders make a tackle.

"That's what I'm in the team to do. It's what I get paid to do. I'll look to do that again on Saturday if I'm given the opportunity."