Matt Maher: Cesar Peixoto deserves more credit for early Wolves work

It was, quite comfortably, the biggest result yet for Cesar Peixoto, a head coach who could now quite conceivably go into the international break with his team top of the Championship but with many supporters still to be won over.

With 10 minutes remaining at Ashton Gate, the Wolves boss appeared destined for a defeat which would have given the doubters further ammunition.

Instead two goals from Sean Neave - the first of the teenager’s senior career - flipped the narrative.

No-one needs reminding why Wolves supporters have little patience. Yet such an outlook, no matter how justified, has never been a good fit for a division as unpredictable as the Championship, in which setbacks across a 46-match season are inevitable.

Whichever way you want to square it Peixoto - who has already this season become one of the few bosses to be booed when his team are actually winning a match - is building an increasingly strong case to be cut just a little more slack.

No team has collected more points in the five matches since Wolves were beaten 3-1 at home by Bolton.

Considering the challenge he accepted in the summer, taking charge of a team which had just been relegated after winning three matches all season, Peixoto is clearly getting more right than he is wrong. Burnley and West Ham, the two sides who came down with Wolves, have already sacked their managers.

There is, of course, a bigger context at play here. Much of the distrust at Molineux extends toward the ownership and it is going to take more than a few wins - no matter how dramatic - to restore the faith in Fosun which ebbed gradually away through years of decline. You can understand why supporters are sceptical about any improvement lasting for long.

Peixoto is responsible for none of that but in the short-term it is the responsibility of him and his players to deliver some cheer.

Right now it is difficult to see just how he could be doing much more.