Wolverhampton head coach Nuno Espirito says the win against Arsenal is a reward of the preparation of his team after they acknowledge their problem and found a way out of it on Tuesday.
“I think it was before the game”, Nuno said, “I think the big moment for us was before the game, we really recognised what the team needs. It’s the best of each one of us. Individual actions for the team. We are in this process, we build our way, we build our confidence, so we can continue through the hard competition that doesn’t stop, it gets harder and harder.
“It’s about all that happened before and what is in front of us, we are trying to get the team back, the confidence back, it was important before he game how we approached it and we must improve in a lot of aspects of our game.”
Wolves came from behind to beat Arsenal with the help of a red card and a penalty as goals from Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho gave them the three points.
Nuno was please on how his team responded after the break but insist that his side need to improve ahead of the busy campaign.
“They started very well. Arsenal were playing very good, they created us enormous problems in the first-half. We got a warning from the goal, this fragility that you see, we must try to improve it.
“Every time we are in our box, we don’t defend well, so we must improve on that aspect. Arsenal have good players, good possession, and the first-half was very difficult for us.
“It was difficult because our opponent are quality. The pivotal moment that changed the game was the penalty. That gave us the belief that we could go for the second-half and chase the game.
“We had to have patience, move the ball from one side to the other, Arsenal were struggling in those moments and after much harder, but even though, I must be honest, the feeling was that let’s have the ball so they can’t cause us problems and it should be the other way around.
“We should kill the game, we had options to do so, and this is what we’re looking for, this maturity that we recognise the moment that we must kill the game. We’ll go inside and try to find a better way to do it.”
