""My hand is feeling the effects of thumping a door with a bit of anger. "We started really positively, and then after a couple of ludicrous mistakes, against a top team with brilliant players, it was always going to be a really difficult day for us. "At 2-0 down, with the energy and looking at the lads on the pitch, it looked a little bit like when we first came in. It looked a bit disjointed, they got their tails up,""
""Then it was about stopping the bleeding. I thought the players reacted very, very well, once we were able to get them in at half-time and organise things. "Then we know it's really difficult to win the game of football, or to get something from it, but it was about trying to win the half, sticking to the things that we want them to do on a tactics board, but also showing some passion, and we did that.""
Wolves conceded three first-half goals as Cole Palmer scored a hat-trick inside 25 minutes, converting two penalties and finishing from Marc Cucurella's cutback to make it 3-0. The home side were booed at half-time but rallied in the second half, pulling a goal back through Tolu Arokodare and preventing further damage. The club sits bottom of the Premier League with eight points from 25 matches, their worst return at this stage in the competition's history. Defensive lapses proved decisive, and a stronger second-half performance showed improved organisation, tactics and passion without altering the match outcome.
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