Mick McCarthy wants Wolves to ‘win ugly’
Wednesday 8th December 2010, 11:31AM GMT.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today urged his team to become the Premier League’s ‘win ugly’ specialists to survive and become more direct.
McCarthy wants his players to be more ruthless and uncompromising in both penalty areas to stop the mistakes undermining the club’s Premier League season after 10 defeats in the last 13 games.
Wolves have conceded two goals or more in each of the last five games, many through basic errors, and failed to keep a clean sheet for 22 games in all competitions going back to last April the worst record in all four divisions.
“Winning ugly’ is about not taking chances in the wrong areas,” said the boss. “You don’t have to play all the football and end up getting beat.
“We need to be hooking the ball on when it needs to be hooked on, heading it, winning all the duels and tackles we need to get back to that kind of approach. We need to play football when we can, but be tougher and harder to beat.
“We never set off wanting to concede goals but I think it maybe just needs to be instilled and ingrained a little bit more.
“That’s my explanation for winning ugly. It’s not playing lovely football that’s costing us.
So the message is to play football when we can but also have that mentality that we don’t want to concede.
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