Wolves interim boss Steve Davis calls for more fight
Steve Davis insists his Wolves players will ‘face up’ to their mistakes as he calls for more fight to get the club out of relegation trouble.
Sunday’s 4-0 loss at home to Leicester marked one of Wolves’ most miserable afternoon’s at Molineux in recent memory, as the club sunk to 19th in the table and level on points with bottom club Nottingham Forest.
The commitment and desire from the players has been questioned in recent weeks and has been highlighted by Nelson Semedo’s poor tracking back for Wilfried Zaha’s goal in the loss to Crystal Palace, while Jonny Castro Otto was guilty of a very similar offence against Leicester.
Davis accepts that those two examples were below the club’s standards and that the players will be spoken to, but insists that they will put it right.
“What we do with those types of things, is go through it with the player,” Davis said.
“We pick the player out one on one and show him the clip of that incident. In all respects, they’re always honest about the mistakes they make.
“The first thing is that they face up to it, they don’t deny it because it’s there. The evidence is in the clip, that’s why we do it.
“It’s then about learning, getting better and not making the same mistakes. That’s the important thing.”
Ahead of the Leicester clash Davis spoke about the need for Wolves to ‘show their teeth’ and begin fighting for the club, but he admits he saw none of that in the embarrassing loss to Leicester.
Davis added: “No, I didn’t (see enough fight). I saw lots of possession, because they enjoy playing with the ball, but I didn’t see enough tackles and enough second balls.
“Their stats were a lot higher than ours on that. I didn’t see it and we need to do that better. I’ve been on that terrace and I’ve been one of those who are disappointed, but we just have to stick together. The most important thing we can do now is stay positive.
“We need to change the outlook and change the results very quickly, and we can only do that on the training ground this week. We have to find a way, we have to find a different way of playing, we have to find a way of being more attack minded and pressing when we can. We created chances but then at the other end we’re conceding. So we just need to get the balance right. Going into Brentford we need to look at that this week.”
