Wolves are taking risks again - and it is starting to pay off

It is incredible how the awareness to get into the box has been so poor from Wolves over the past few seasons.

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So far this season though, that as changed.

When you are making those types of runs you won't always be found and it won't work 100 per cent of the time.

But what will happen is that if you don't get found on the second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth run, is that on the seventh run, the odds are massively in your favour.

What Wolves have been so poor at over recent seasons, is his having strikers not making those runs into the box, or hanging off the shoulder of the defender, and they haven't been arriving late into the box to take chances.

An example of this is, if the winger has it on the right, the other winger should be making a run on the opposite side to gamble on the cross. How often have those things not happened for Wolves?

That has been the case over the last few seasons but we have already seen it changing in recent games.

On Sunday, Hwang Hee-Chan made a number of runs where Pedro Neto didn't quite find him.

Eventually, he knows Neto is going to find him. In the move that led to the goal, there was one occasion where he made a run and Neto didn't find him.

However, when Neto goes one on one with Pau Torres, Hwang knows there is going to be a cross and he makes a really intelligent run.

It is a perfect run, in front of the defender, where he taps home to score.

What that does is give a player the confidence to continue making those runs, and when they do that they are going to score goals.

It is a real positive sign for Wolves at the moment and a positive change in how they are going about attacking the box.

We have not seen that now for at least two seasons and I am really taking great comfort in the fact that Hwang and others are taking risks, and when you take risks, you will score goals.

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