Rob Edwards reflected on a 1-1 draw between Wolves and Everton.
The visitors fought to take a point at the Hill Dickinson Stadium through a fine finish from Mateus Mane, and they could have taken all three if they had capitalized on a double dismissal for Michael Keane and Jack Grealish. However, the team continue to put together positive phases of work.
“I was a bit frustrated with our start. The staff sensed in the warm-up that we were a little bit flat. I tried to get into them before the game. I think we started flat and at half-time it was evident we needed to inject a bit of life and something into us.
“I don’t think we were particularly playing poorly, but we didn’t have the same zip we’ve had over the last few games. We weren’t getting behind them enough and didn’t carry enough of a threat. I thought we were playing in front of them and they were happy for us to do that.
“We made a tweak, and I thought it had an effect. We started to get more control and look a bit more dangerous. Once we went to a four and brought Jorgen Strand Larsen on, it was an instant impact. It was a brilliant goal and we were pushing. How the game ended, with them down to nine men, it’s frustrating because we didn’t capitalise more.
“I felt we played into their hands a little bit once they went down to nine men. We were probably over keen to either work the perfect cross and not put it in the right positions or putting it in from a bit too deep and didn’t work them enough.
“They’ve got a lot of experienced Everton defenders who are happy defending the box in a block. They can buy a bit of time, they’re happy with balls coming in from certain areas and we probably played into their hands without working them side to side enough. We put Pedro Lima on to go wide with crosses to shift them, but we didn’t quite do it well enough.”