Conor Coady has claimed that Wolverhampton Wanderers never lost confidence in their ability to win games despite losing each of their opening three fixtures in the Premier League this season. The captain’s comments come after Wolves secured their first victory of the campaign against Watford, winning 2-0 at Vicarage Road thanks to a Francisco Sierralta own goal and a fortuitous finish from Hwang Hee-chan on his debut.
Conor Coady said: “It’s huge that we’ve got points. We knew that we’ve been performing quite well, we’ve been playing some good football, creating chances and doing well, but the most important thing is picking up points. We’ve been patient, but we’ve also believed as well. We’ve not stopped believing in what we’ve wanted to do. We’ve been performing well, but we understand that, at the end of the day, it’s all about picking up points. We were desperate for that win, we’ve spoken about it for weeks because we feel we’ve been a little bit hard done by at times, but it’s about picking up points. That was massive for us today. It was huge that we come here and not just put on a good performance, but also got the win as well. It was massively deserved what we’ve done today, but it was also massively needed.”
Coady went on to assert that the side remained confident in what they were attempting to do on the pitch this season, while claiming that he pays no attention to the league table in the opening month of the season.
Conor Coady said: “Never (lost confidence). With how we were playing, we believed and we were creating chances. I feel we’ve created quite a lot until now, so I think we always believed in the way we wanted to do things, and we believed in the way the manager wanted us to play, and it was important we kept on doing that. There was never a time when we were doubting things, we were always doing the same stuff, trying to press, trying to be aggressive, trying to create things, and we’ll take any goal as it comes. (Winning) does give you confidence. You might think I’m lying, but I’ve not looked at the table once. I don’t look at it until a certain point because there’s no real point at the minute. It’s something where we want to improve ourselves as a football club, we want to improve ourselves every day and we’re trying to give the best of ourselves every day to the manager, to the football club and to the supporters. We need to keep on doing that now and a win always breeds confidence, but it was important today and we move forward now.”
Coady repeatedly praised the manager as well, praising Bruno Lage ‘s philosophy, before looking ahead to another important fixture next week against Brentford.
Conor Coady said: “It’s important we keep on listening to our manager because the way he plays is fantastic and we look towards Brentford now and we will improve, we will get better because they’re a real top team. With the games from the start of the season, they’ve come up and really put their way of playing onto the Premier League. They’re a top team. We watched the first game of the season when then played, the atmosphere they created at the new ground, they’re a real, real good side. But we remember playing them in the Championship as well, and they were a really good side then, so we know how tough it’s going to be. We’ll make sure we work this week, we’ll recover and we’ll get ready for it.”
