Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui admits they struggled to compete with Manchester City for Sunday's 3-0 defeat.
Erling Haaland's hat-trick sank the old gold in Manchester, while in the closing stages Wolves passed up opportunities to get on the scoresheet an area of the pitch Lopetegui is demanding improvement.
He said, It's of course a negative opinion for today because we didn't do a good match. They overcame us, not with a lot of chances, but in the offensive phase we didn't do a lot of things.
It was difficult because, in my opinion, the first half we didn't do what we had in our minds. We started losing 1-0 and the second half we tried to go ahead, to change little things, and we started better, but in the first five minutes we had one penalty against us and it's over more or less and after the third goal.
This is the risk you have playing against these kinds of teams. It was a pity for me the first half, but not only the loss, but we didn't do what we had in our mind. Now, we have to start preparing for the next match. When we win or lose, we have to always think for the next match and to improve a lot of things."
Lopetegui also added, It's not about the forwards, I made three changes because I wanted to change different things, to play and to defend and press, I'm not worried with the three players I changed, you can make changes, maybe it's your fault on the line-up or maybe your starting decisions.
In the second half we improved, but maybe when we started being better, we suffered the second goal with the penalty. They have a big quality and when they start winning it's more difficult of course. We took a big risk, and it was a pity the first time they arrived in our box, it was a penalty."
