Wolves boss O'Neil: Victory over Man City showed players' character

Football
1 Oct 2023 • 9:15 AM MYT
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Wolves boss Gary O'Neil says the manner of their 2-1 victory over Manchester City made him proud.

Hwang Hee-chan struck the winner for Wolves after City had drawn level via Julian Alvarez and O'Neil was pleased with how they wrested back the momentum.

He said: It was a big moment for me. You could see that I was on the pitch at that point because we didn't deserve to go 1-1. They have the ability to put a free-kick in the top corner, and now you just have to respond.

It was a big blow for us, but we needed to reset and not let all the good work we'd done go to nothing. I was trying to make the lads reset because they needed to get their minds back on what they were doing and make sure it looked like it had done for the previous 65.

Getting another breakaway goal is always a possibility when you have Pedro and Channy in the team, so it was a really good performance."

He added: We're just trying to win games of football. We've done that today, but we've got another tough one coming next year.

Villa won 6-1 today, and they're in the top four, so I think we'll have completed the full set next week of playing the top four at home.

It's another tough game, but if the prep can go as well as it did, the lads can stick to the plan and find the right structure, then we've got good enough players to create problems."