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Gary O’Neil has been talking ahead of today’s match.
Newcastle United the visitors, as Wolves look to turn around a shocking run of form, lasting six months.
Wolves with only one Premier League win in that time, with three draws and nine defeats in their last 13 PL matches.
Some interesting comments from Gary O’Neil on Newcastle United and especially Eddie Howe.
With Wolves having lost five of their last six Premier League matches at Molineux, their manager knows their home form has to pick up very quickly if they are to have anything close to a comfortable season.
Gary O’Neil talking to the official Wolves site about the challenge of facing Newcastle United:
“They have an abundance of quality attacking players, midfielders, even defenders.
“I know they’ve had a couple of injury issues, but obviously signing Lloyd Kelly on a free transfer – someone who I admire a lot, I thought he was excellent at Bournemouth, and a real good signing for them – so they’re going to be a big test.
“Isak is one of the best number nines in the league for me, so they are a team that are going to test us, definitely, but a team that we played twice last season, a team that we did pretty well against in both fixtures. I know the away one we end up losing comfortably, but it wasn’t the full story of the game, especially for where we were at that time.
“I’m looking forward to getting back into Molineux, getting the group that we know we’re going to work with from now till January, at least, and seeing if we can start to upset a few people like we like we managed to last season.
“A lot of our results came unexpectedly last year, and we’re going to need some of them again this season. I’m really looking forward to the challenge.”
Gary O’Neil on his relationship with Eddie Howe:
“Eddie and his team of staff and the team of players have had an incredible couple of years up there, and I’m sure they’ll continue to do so.
“I know Eddie well, he’s done an excellent job there.
“I have a real respect for him and what he’s done. British, English managers working in the Premier League, there’s not too many, so it’s nice to see Eddie, especially as high up the league as he is and as he’s been over the last few years.
“He’s worked his socks off to take Bournemouth from the bottom of League Two to get himself to a club that competes in the Champions League last season, so it’s been an incredible journey for him. But you don’t get that through luck or without sacrifice or without an awful lot of hard work and intelligence, so Ed’s a really good manager.”
Gary O’Neil on sharing ideas with other managers:
“We don’t bounce things off each other at all. I think we’re both probably a bit too private and proud for that, both of our own way of doing things and both probably fairly confident in what we do and what we want to achieve.
“But there’s still a real respect of what he’s done there and what he’ll continue to do until he until he decides that management’s not for him anymore, because I’m sure he’ll be successful no matter where he goes.”
Gary O’Neil on a difficult run of fixtures ahead:
“We approach every game like if we nail what we’ve worked on and the game plan and how we want to be, that we have an opportunity to win, no matter who it’s against. We know at this moment, we’re going to play a lot of teams that will be expected to finish high up the league.
“The feeling around the place at the moment is that not many people outside of here expect us to take many points out of the next run of games, as well as the ones we’ve just played at the start of the season, but that’s not our expectation.
“Our expectation is to give everything to show that we’ve got good players, to show that we’ve got a good side, to show that we’ve got more depth now, and to see what we can achieve. The season gets going for me fully when the when the window closes, it’s my favourite part of the season when you know exactly where everybody is, and we’re at that point, so I’m looking forward to getting going.”

 
