Nuno: Wolves are growing in confidence

Willy Boly opened the scoring in the second half before City responded through Aymeric Laporte.

Nuno expected a tough game against the current title holders but was happy with his squad's performance.

He said: "I think it was a good performance overall - in all moments of the game when you have the ball, when you don't have the ball.

"We have to be cautious and knowing what you have with the opponent - the best team, the champions of the Premier League - we have to stick together, cover, and reduce the space.

"When you have the ball, we create chances, we play good football so it was a good game of football.

"If there is a but, and there is always a but, after we score, we should manage better this couple of minutes.

"Lose a couple of first passes after we recovered the ball and put Man City in control of the game. It is a growing process. One more game, one more tool to work on it and improve for next week."

Asked if the game was more difficult given Manchester City's pedigree of players, Nuno said: "It is more difficult of course but this is the way we shape ourselves to try and recover the ball.

"When you have better quality of players in front of you, it makes your task harder, it requires more balance, more patience, more organisation.

"But it is the way we work and approach football. Every opponent we try to engage our wingers with the centre halves so that is able to keep us high in the pitch."

And Nuno believes that performance will boost the confidence of his players.

"All confidence that we acquire is through the way you perform," he said.

"Honestly I think we are improving game by game. Since the first game at home with Everton, Leicester, we already talk about that game.

"Today again, this is the confidence that you want to build. But for me, for the boys, the way you train is the way you have to play. It doesn't make sense any other way."

Boly scored by using hand to put the ball in the net. Nuno was asked if Wolves' were fortunate to score, but he pointed to how they were unlucky last week at Leicester, where they hit the woodwork three times.

"Last week happened against us, so this is football," said Nuno.

"This is what we have to be prepared for. It is how you react from that situation. You score. It doesn't matter how you score.

"The referee is there to judge. Just be ready. You get the goal. How you react to that, don't think it was lucky or unlucky, focus on your tasks, be prepared for the action minute by minute.

"This is how we work and how we want to be, focusing on the game."