Wolves v Burnley preview: Vitor Pereira calls for Wolves fight in crucial clash

Pereira himself said after that defeat that Wolves need to beat Burnley, but he rowed back on that to some extent in his pre-match press conference and instead said Wolves cannot be relegated in October, although he recognised the importance of this fixture.

He said: “If we are waiting for life to give us something, you can sit waiting and waiting and nothing happens. 

"We must go and take from life, go and take from the game. What we need in this moment is to show this hunger since the first minute.

“I have my responsibility and we all – the players, everybody in the club – know our responsibility. I don't believe that it’s possible to be champion in October. It’s impossible and it’s impossible to be relegated in October. But we know that each game is a chance to take the chance and get the points or not.

“This is another chance, an important chance, because this is a team that will fight with us for the points and for the result. It is an important time to go there and show what we do in the training. Because the way that I see my players is that they are a good group.

“They want to change things, they fight, they compete, they are trying everything to improve as a team and to turn over the situation. I want to see the same team that I see in training this week. 

"I want to see the same team with personality, quality and ambition to go there and play to win the game.

"If we win the game, everything changes. To lose four points in the last minute against Tottenham and Brighton was painful and we must win a game, it's like the key to opening the door."

As well as urging for a quick start to the game, Pereira has also called for improvement in the warm-up from his side at Molineux.

The head coach concedes that his players have needed time to adapt to the top flight as they search for the first win.

"If we have the results, it's easier to build," Pereira added.

"When you want to build an identity, it's not only tactical, it's the mental identity and we have a lot of players where it's their first time in the Premier League.

"It's different than the other leagues that I've worked in before. In the first minute if you are not mentally ready to face the game, they can score.

"If you lose your focus, in five minutes they can score four goals, because the quality of this league is the best.

"To build the identity we need to have the players together to create the right mentality to compete in this league. This is what we are trying to do."