Wolves boss working to develop side's 'tactical maturity'
Vitor Pereira wants his Wolves side to be a jack of all trades and a master of many as he works on transforming their tactical nous.
The head coach has admitted he has toned down the messaging in training in recent weeks due to 'tactical fatigue' and is instead allowing his players to enjoy their time on the pitch with just three Premier League games left to play.
But as he prepares to improve this team further ahead of next season, Pereira is eager for his side to be capable of playing many different styles.
“That's what I call tactical maturity," he said.
"I'm there to help them, but as a team, we need to have a brain to understand what’s happened and what we need to do. I try to prepare them, and I believe that we are ready. We are prepared.
“Sometimes we prepare the team to play short, but if we just have this solution, that's a problem. It means that against a team that presses you, we need to have another solution.
"We need to look for the game and understand if they come to press higher the space is there. We have these solutions because we worked and prepared different solutions.
“On the pitch, because they are playing, they have to decide if the space is from the sides, if it's in the middle, if it's a long pass and second balls.
"As a coach, I need to prepare them for different scenarios, different solutions on the pitch. On the pitch, they will decide the best one in the moment.
“We need to look at our game, because we face different teams, with different dynamics, this is the Premier League.
"We need to understand where the spaces are, the movements, what they want to create, but looking at us, our identity, the work that we did these four months, and the spirit, the mentality."
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