Wolves manager Vitor Pereira says he was proud of his players’ efforts despite seeing them lose for the first time as high-flying Nottingham Forest won 3-0 at Molineux.
Wolves were without key forward Matheus Cunha and remain in trouble in the Premier League down in 17th place after goals from Morgan Gibbs-White, Chris Wood and Taiwo Awoniyi gave Forest the points.
But Pereira’s side looked sharp in the first-half, with striker Jorgen Strand Larsen denied by a fine goal-line clearance and Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels making several superb saves.
Not our day.
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Wolves had 13 attempts on goal with six on target – both higher than their clinical visitors – as they failed to score at home for the first time since last April.
Pereira said: “I think we did what was possible to do.
“We faced a lot of problems this week, different problems, injury problems. In the end we played with 11 players and 11 players that were giving everything to get another result.
“I’m happy with the players, I am proud of them because they tried everything. I can’t say to anybody that they didn’t run, they didn’t fight, they didn’t try their best.
“In the end 3-0 is a heavy result but we must understand why it happened and if you understand why it happened we know what we must work on to improve this.”
Next up for Wolves is an FA Cup trip to face Bristol City on Saturday, before a midweek trip to Newcastle in the Premier League.
