McCarthy demands a backlash
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is looking for his team to bounce back from Saturday's disappointment with victory over Hull in tonight's Coca-Cola Championship clash. Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is looking for his team to bounce back from Saturday's disappointment with victory over Hull in tonight's Coca-Cola Championship clash. The Molineux boss was disappointed to see his side slip to a 3-1 defeat against another of the division's promotion hopefuls Sheffield United at Bramall Lane. He now has to decide whether to bring back strike Freddy Eastwood at the expense of Stephen Elliott, and whether to change a defence which conceeded three disappointing goals on Saturday. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star.
The Molineux boss was disappointed to see his side slip to a 3-1 defeat against another of the division's promotion hopefuls Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.
He now has to decide whether to bring back strike Freddy Eastwood at the expense of Stephen Elliott, and whether to change a defence which conceeded three disappointing goals on Saturday.
He is also angry that two of Wolves' potential promotion rivals have earned vital wins at the expense of the Molineux men.
HeÊsaid: "I take no heart from the fact we have matched both Watford and Sheffield United when we've played them - I feel totally annoyed we have allowed two Premiership sides to steal a march on us and not because of anything they did.
"I'm upset, angry and annoyed that we have let those two sides beat us when in reality they shouldn't have done.
"I'm not happy that we have dropped six points to them because neither of them have been better than us. But they didn't make mistakes - that is the difference."
"It's the level of performance that helps you bounce back. If we'd have gone there and been well beaten and thought 'we're not as good as them', then that is a difficulty because you do feel a bit inferior.
"But that's not the case with us from Saturday - we felt we should have won."
"Their goals weren't from silky skills, they were just punts into the box."