Jed Wallace: I'll fight for my Wolves place
Jed Wallace is desperate to prove his worth to Wolves boss Walter Zenga – and believes team-mate Nouha Dicko is close to being at his peak.
Wallace starred in Wolves' 3-2 Checkatrade Trophy win at Crewe on Tuesday, setting up two goals for Dicko.
The midfielder has been frozen out of the first team of late, not appearing in a Championship squad since being substituted in the 4-0 home defeat to Barnsley.
And he hopes he will soon be given another opportunity to stake a claim.
"All you can do is do your best and try your hardest, which is what I do every time, in a five-a-side with my mates or a game at Molineux or training at Compton Park, you can only do your best," he told the Express & Star.
"For me personally there are a lot of players in my position. All I can do is train my hardest and wait for my opportunity, which hopefully I'll get some time before Christmas.
"My last game was the Newcastle cup game. All I want to do is play and do well. When I get the opportunity it's up to the manager whether he picks me.
"But if I play in the Checkatrade Trophy, or wherever it is, I'll try my hardest and it's up to him.
"I want to be playing and that's all I can do.
"I played well (at Crewe) But, no disrespect, those aren't the games I came here to do well in. I want to be playing in the first team, the same as Sav (George Saville), Silvio, Dicko, Lonners (Andy Lonergan) and all the rest of the boys, they want to be in the first team."
Wallace, who admitted he wasn't convinced by the new Checkatrade Trophy format, felt the biggest positive of the game at Gresty Road was Dicko, who found the net with two excellent finishes.
"You can never take football for granted," he said of his returning team-mate. "Obviously we see Dicko out for a year, and I see the work that my good friends Jordan Graham and Michal Zyro put in every day.
"You can't really forget that. Although it's not the ideal situation, we're still playing football and you've got to enjoy it while you can. I thought we did that. We played well – we tried our hardest to lose at the end but I thought we stayed strong.
"The biggest positive was Dicko. He only really now looks 10 training sessions away from being at his absolute peak. He looked strong, quick, and the player that, when I signed, was flying up and down Molineux."
