Gary O'Neil is confident Wolves will overachieve again in the Premier League this season despite falling to a 2-1 defeat to Newcastle on Sunday. (More Football News)
Mario Lemina had given the hosts a half-time lead, only for Fabian Schar and Harvey Barnes' long-rang♌e efforts completing th🌄e turnaround for the Magpies.
Wolves have now failed to win any of their opening four league games this ter🎶m and occupy𓆉 the final place in the bottom three.
Their single point against Nottingham Forest makes this their joint-💎wor🔥st start to a Premier League campaign, along with 2003-04, when they were relegated in last place.
O'Neil's side have now also lost six of their last seven league games at Molineu♚x, losing more games on home turf in 2024 than any other team in the top-flight (eight).
But the Wolves head coach, w﷽ho oversaw a 14th-place finish in his debut campaign at the helm last year, is confident his players will find their groove.
"We have better depth, of course. The run is the run. The team sh🍨ould be judged on what they did for the whole of 🐷last season.
"I am sure w𒊎e will overachieve what many people will expect of us this season.
"Everyone is desperate ♍for our first win. Tha♏t was close to being our best today.
"We🍸 have gone up against a side that have 🅷spent an awful lot of money and were in the Champions League.
"There are not a lot of t🧸eams that can go against Newcastle and look the most likely to win."
There were positives♍ for O'Neil to take from the defeat, howeve💝r, most notably the performance of new addition Andre in central midfield.
The Brazilian completed all 40 of his passes against Newcastle, the most on record byꦗ a player on their first ever Premier League start without misplacing one (since 2003-04).
"Very good, he's a good player obviously. New system today wit𓄧h the three midfielders in. An awful lot of positives," O'Neil said.
"Of course the only positives that pe🐟ople are interested in is points.
"From my point of view, to h꧂ave come up 🦩with a new structure for the team and for it to look how it did against Newcastle was a big plus for us."
