Ruben Neves says Julen Lopetegui has made a ‘lot of impact’ since taking over from Bruno Lage and masterminding Wolves to their first away win of the Premier League season. Speaking after his side came from behind to stun Everton with a last minute winner, Wolves ’ captain says he has noticed the difference at the club’s Compton training base since Lopetegui took charge. Speaking shortly after Rayan Ait-Nouri’s injury time strike Neves highlighted what Lopetegui has changed. Neves told Amazon Prime.
Ruben Neves said: “A lot of impact, he is a great coach, a very experienced coach, so we are really happy to work with him because we know he will help us a lot. Of course we have started really well but we have a lot of work to do, a lot of things to improve, that’s our main goal. You always notice the difference when you change coaches because they have their own way to work and it’s like an individual thing for the coaches, so you can always see some difference. When I came I felt it a lot, mainly in terms of the intensity, I think the guys were working really hard in that month. That’s good for us, that’s really good to play Premier League because as you saw today it was a really physical game, a lot of fouls. I think we did really well, if we could handle that we knew we would have our chances to score. It’s really important to control the game without the ball as well, I think in the past we were struggling a little bit when the other team had the ball because we were too nervous. Today we did it really well. It was really, really hard, it’s always hard to play here at Goodison because of the atmosphere, the way they start the games but we knew as well if we could handle the first 15-20 minutes the game would come a little bit to us. That’s what it did. We conceded the goal in the first minutes of the game, but reacted really well, we scored and just tried to control the game as much as we could because we knew we would have our chances to score and that’s what happened.”
