Steve Bull: Crucial few weeks are coming up for Wolves

Games against Huddersfield, Cardiff and Newcastle are the kind we should be looking to win.

Nuno’s men rightly got a lot of plaudits for the way they performed against Tottenham and Arsenal, but now it is about taking care of business against teams at the other end of the table.

If we can take six or seven points from those three games then I am confident we will be looking at a mid-table finish.

It won’t be easy. Huddersfield on Sunday will present a very different challenge to the one posed by Arsenal before the international break, that much is obvious.

Whereas the Gunners give you the space to play, the Terriers are likely to sit back and defend.

The expectation is also very different. Wolves went to the Emirates very much the underdogs but at home, against a team in the bottom three, they will undoubtedly be favourites.

Players have to deal with that extra pressure but I am confident they will, so long as they go in anticipating a tough game.

It is when you go in thinking it will be easy that it can very quickly become a tough game.

Losing Jonny Otto for an extended period, following the injury he sustained while away with Spain, is obviously a blow. The 24-year-old had enjoyed a really strong start to life at Molineux.

But as always in this game, one person’s misfortune is another’s opportunity and we may now get to see what Ruben Vinagre can do with an extended run in the team.

We’ve not seen too many glimpses of the 19-year-old so far in the Premier League but what we have seen has been encouraging. This is his chance to stake a claim.

Of course, we are assuming he is Nuno’s preferred man to replace Jonny. The head coach may very well be thinking differently.

Whatever Nuno decides, I don’t think he will be too worried. He always has faith in a squad where everyone knows their jobs.